Carnan

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carnan, from 1,315 m² to 165,891 m² (16.59 ha, 40.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Carnan 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.

• 23 Dec 2025Conditional

  renovation of existing two storey dwelling with single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling with amendments to relevant elevations, changes to boundary/entrance, installation of new WWTP and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560322

• 21 Jul 2020Conditional

  construction of a two storey type dwelling house and detached domestic garage, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20164

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 Carnan.

Recorded monuments

• LF020-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level, low-lying pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted that this raised subcircular area (c. 40m E-W; c. 38m N-S) was defined by a low bank of earth. It is defined by a scarp (H 0.7-0.8m) and a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.3m). At SW it is truncated by a NW-SE field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable. A low bank of earth and stone (probably the remains of a field boundary) is evident in the NW quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF020-029001 Moated site
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope in pasture. A raised subrectangular area (c. 33m NW-SE; c. 28m NE-SW) enclosed from NE-E-SE by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4m; H 0.2m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m). A wide, deep, external fosse (Wth 4m; D 1m) has been partially infilled from NE-E-SE. There is a possible house (LF020-029002-) at the N angle of the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 9 May 2012

• LF020-029002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the interior of a moated site (LF020-029001-), at the N angle. A raised square area (8m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE) appears to mark the site of a house. It may be the 'rectangular house site' noted in 1976 (SMR file). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 15 June 2012

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c. 1890, with 'VR' royal cipher and raised crown motif. Raised ‘Post Office’ lettering to letter flap and foundry name to the base (W.T. Allen and Company of London). Set into rendered pier adjacent to Crossea Crossroad junction. Located to the east of Ardagh, close to the former Crossea Post Office.

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 Carnan, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carnan · An Carnán

Area

1,067,610 m² (106.76 ha, 263.81 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Ardagh East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

730 people lived in 265 households in the Ardagh East electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballywalter, Barneygole, Coolcaw, Crossea North, Crossea South, Killeen, Sleehaun

Placenames

Carnan 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.