Ardnacassagh

550 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnacassagh, from 5 m² to 80,823 m² (8.08 ha, 19.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 545 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Industrial/Commercial/Warehousing (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S4Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (General public administration)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 13 Nov 2025Conditional

  the proposed construction of a single storey modular type dwelling house, entrance, boundary wall/fence, proposed connection to the existing public foul sewer network and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560263

• 15 Feb 2023Refused

  the retention and completion of existing entrance with driveway together with staff parking area to service existing dental practice to include onsite surface water drainage disposal system and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2331

• 14 Sept 2022Refused

  and completion of existing partially completed staff car parking area to service existing dental practice together with entrance with fenced driveway to service same and all ancillary works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 22220

• 1 Jul 2022Conditional

  development of 93 dwellings comprising 2 no. 2-storey 3-bed detached houses, 44 no. 3-storey 3-bed semi-detached houses, 28 no. 3-storey 3-bed terraced houses, 19 no. 2-storey 2-bed terraced houses, 25 no. of which will be accessed off the existing Ard Michael Road and 68 no. of which will be accessed off Oaklands Avenue. The development will include cycle paths, landscaped open space, and all associated site works

  Permission, 93 homes · Longford County Council, 22153

• 12 Jul 2021Conditional

  of PL17/104 - to install a 50m2 pre-fabricated unit to accommodate childcare facilities, with connections to existing on-site services and the carrying out of ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 21210

• 26 Apr 2021Conditional

  demolition of existing fire damaged two storey semi-detached dwelling house with adjoining domestic garage and permission for construction of replacement two storey semi-detached dwelling house with adjoining domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21123

• 28 Feb 2019Conditional

  proposed construction of domestic store and garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1953

• 25 Aug 2017Refused

  of domestic storage shed

  Retention · Longford County Council, 17224

• 26 May 2017Conditional

  Change of use of previously permitted 4 no. ground floor retail units which are deemed substantially complete but not occupied & which form part of an overall building which was previously granted full planning permission under planning permission reference number PL01/644 & 06/1057 into 4 no. 2 bedroom apartments together with amendments to the various elevations of the overall building that was previously granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL01/644 & 06/1057 & to also include the installation of a canopy on the front elevation and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17153

• 11 Apr 2017Conditional

  To Install a 50m2 pre-fabricated unit to accommodate childcare facilities, with connections to existing on-site services and the carrying out of ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17104

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 Ardnacassagh.

Recorded monuments

• LF014-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture on a slight rise in gently undulating terrain with damp, rush-grown ground in the low-lying area. The N4 bypass lies within 15m, bordering the W side of the field. Shown on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a trapezoidal enclosure with angular corners. On later editions it is depicted with rounded corners giving it a roughly ovoid plan. It survives as an earthen platform (L NW side 35-40m; SW side c. 35-40m; NE side c. 30m), roughly ovoid in plan, narrowest at the NE end, defined by a bank, with remnants of an external fosse evident at SW. The NW and SE sides appear somewhat linear but have rounded corners. The bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.3m at N, 0.2-0.3m at SW; ext. H 1.6m at N, 1.6m at SW) is low and degraded internally but has a pronounced external face which is cut almost to the vertical. From N–NE a section (L 10-12m) of the bank is incorporated into the line of a property boundary. The fosse (Wth base 2.5m; ext. D 0.65m) can be traced at SW for 12-15m as a well-defined depression but then peters out. At N a slight dip, bordered externally by the field fence, may also be evidence of it. The interior is level but can only be examined in parts in the NE half; the SW half is covered by impenetrable blackthorn and brambles. A break (Wth 1.4m) in the bank at E is marked on the external edge of its S terminal by a boulder. Elsewhere there are numerous narrow breaks or slumped areas (max. Wth c. 1m) eroded by farm stock. The enclosure is engulfed in a thicket of overgrowth making inspection difficult. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 January 2013

Architectural heritage

• Worker's house, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey former railway level crossing guard's house, built c. 1855, having flat-roofed lean-to porch to front and lean-to north elevation. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves having timber consoles and a central brick chimneystack. Painted coursed/snecked rubble limestone masonry with cut limestone quoins to the corners of the main body of the building. Elliptical-headed window openings having two-over-two timber sliding sash windows with painted limestone sills and painted brick surrounds. Square-headed opening with timber panelled door to lean-to. Set back from road, adjacent to Dublin-Sligo railway line. Located the east of Longford Town.

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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1734 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ardnacassagh · Ard na Ceasach

Area

729,089 m² (72.91 ha, 180.16 acres)

Civil parish

Templemichael, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Longford Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Longford Rural electoral division: 5,685 people in 1,964 households; 51% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolnahinch, Deanscurragh, Glack, Kilnasavoge, Knockahaw, Lisnamuck, Templemichael Glebe

Placenames

Ardnacassagh 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.