Longfield

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longfield, from 74 m² to 189,227 m² (18.92 ha, 46.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Longfield in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Longfield in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Longfield.

Recorded monuments

• LE030-009 House - 17th century
  Description

  Situated in pasture at the summit of a low N-S drumlin ridge. A castle is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map at Loughill on the county map or Lowhill on the barony and parish maps of Drumreilly parish where it is represented as a house with a chimney. See this web-page accessed on 25/09/2019 downsurvey.tcd.ie. On these maps Sir James Craig, a Protestant, is described as the owner, and the house was probably built in fulfilment of the land grant of a thousand acres he had received in 1620 and had taken up by 1622 (Mac Cuarta 1999, 130). Traditionally, this was an O'Rourke castle, but there is no supporting evidence of this. According to McParlan (1802, 90) the house, one gable of which was then standing, was captured by a Major Martin Armstrong after the battle of Cavan town on 11 February 1690 when Williamite forces burnt the town, but Armstrong lost his life at this battle (Childs 2007, 190-1). No archaeological feature was visible in pasture at ground level in 1991 (SMR file). See the attached view from the Down Survey bstony map (N at top left) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 717). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 10 October 2019

• LE030-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of the S and SW-facing slope of a N-S drumlin ridge. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 55.4m E-W; 55m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 4.2m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.2m) with an external fosse (at N: Wth of top 6.3m; Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.5m) NW-NE. The bank morphs into an earthen field bank (Wth of base 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2m) ENE-ESE with an outer drain NE-S. Elsewhere the bank has been reduced to a scarp (H 1.5-2m), and the fosse to a berm (Wth 3-5m) S-NW. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 10 October 2019

• LE030-011 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a steep S-facing slope, with the headwaters of a small SE-NW stream c. 40m to the S. It is depicted as a small hachured feature and described as a ‘Giant’s Grave’ only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is an overgrown cairn (dims 12m N-S; 7m E-W; H 1m) with three upright stones protruding from it 2m inside the W edge. The stones area contiguous and from the S these are (dims 0.75m x 0.15m; H 0.3m; 0.5m x 0.25m; H 0.45m; 0.55m x 0.35m; H 0.95m). (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 85-6) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 10 October 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Longfield.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Longfield.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Longfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Longfield · Leamhchoill

Area

597,861 m² (59.79 ha, 147.73 acres)

Civil parish

Carrigallen, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Killygar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killygar electoral division: 128 people in 54 households; 92% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Ballynamony, Drumanure, Drumercross, Drumhalry, Drumleevan, Unshinagh

Placenames

Longfield on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.