Longford East

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longford East, from 19,279 m² (1.93 ha, 4.76 acres) to 316,931 m² (31.69 ha, 78.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Longford East 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 Longford East 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 Longford East.

Recorded monuments

• LI025-010 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Longford Castle was described in 1840 as follows; 'this castle is about 20 ft. [6m] high and the same wide. There is no account of its founder etc.' (OSNB Oola Parish, 1418). According to O'Donovan (OSL) this castle 'was originally of the same extent and height with the Castle of Oola [LI033A008002-], but it is now destroyed down to the height of about 20 feet' (O'Flanagan 1929, 129). Westropp (1906-7, 103) recorded the following details about Longford Castle; '1572 Tirrelagh O'Brien held Longhurt C[astle]. (Inq. Exch., 7, 10). 1621 Moriert Mac Brien of Castletown held Longortt (Inq. Chan., 25b). 1625 Pardon for alienation of C[astle].s of Longgort and Williamstown (Pat. R.). 1655 Longford C[astle]. held by Mortagh Mac Bryne and Jas. Butler (C.S., xxiii., p. 3). 1668 Confirmed to Duke of York, 1688 Confiscated (Trustees' Map, 24). 1703 Sold to John White, of Cappagh, County Tipperary. Fabric - A fragment 20 feet [6m]high (O.S.L., 9, 428), fairly well preserved'. Castle standing beside a river is depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map of Coonagh Barony (Hib. Reg.). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Morttagh Mc Byrne of Longford, an Irish Papist, was the owner of 'a Castle house and Mill all unrepaired' (Simington 1938, 19). In level farmyard with moderate views in all directions. According to landowner site of Longford Castle now located under modern milking parlour in farmyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 December 2020

• LI025-059 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland. Partial outline of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 24m) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthophoto Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 19 July 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Longford East.

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 Longford East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Longford East · An Longfort Thoir

Area

409,647 m² (40.96 ha, 101.23 acres)

Civil parish

Oola, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Oola, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Oola electoral division: 1,119 people in 427 households; 82% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ayle (Co. Tipperary), Clonbrick (Co. Tipperary), Gortyvahane, Knockphelagh (Co. Tipperary), Longford West, Moanahila

Placenames

Longford East 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.