Cam

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cam, from 126 m² to 241,072 m² (24.11 ha, 59.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Cam 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.

• 19 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary wall/fence, proprietary waste water treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18238

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 Cam.

Recorded monuments

• LF015-069001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low ridge on otherwise level ground. This is the NW example of two, oval-shaped, conjoined enclosures (see also LF015-069002-) with the designation 'Forts' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 February 2012

• LF015-069002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low ridge on otherwise level ground. This is the SE example of two, oval-shaped, conjoined enclosures (see also LF015-069001-) with the designation 'Forts' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 February 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Cam, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1903 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Cam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Cam · Camach

Area

1,651,312 m² (165.13 ha, 408.05 acres)

Civil parish

Mostrim, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Ballymuigh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

237 people lived in 101 households in the Ballymuigh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonwhelan, Culloge, Curry, Kilsallagh, Lisnagrish, Monadarragh

Placenames

Cam 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.