Carrickduff
Carrickduff is a townland in the civil parish of Abbeylara, barony of Granard, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is An Charraig Dhubh.
- Area
- 158.1 ha
- 391 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 4,863 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickduff, from 156 m² to 304,138 m² (30.41 ha, 75.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrickduff 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Oct 2023Conditional
to construct a bungalow 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
Outline permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360184
9 Oct 2018Conditional
of existing single storey extension servicing existing two storey type dwelling house and all ancillary site works
Retention · Longford County Council, 18220
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrickduff.
Recorded monuments
- LF006-063 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise in pasture. A raised subcircular area (48.5m N-S; 45m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.2-1.8m), with a wide shallow intervening fosse (Wth 6m; D 0.2-0.5m) and an outer bank from NNE-NE-E. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 November 2011
- LF006-064 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 34m) defined from W-NW-N by a scarp (H 0.9-1.6m) and enclosed from N-NE-E by a bank of earth and stone, which has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. There is no trace of a fosse. Elsewhere the enclosing element and much of the interior have been levelled. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF006-065 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised subcircular area (41m N–S; 35.5m E–W) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.3-4.9m; H 0.2-1.1m) with a very wide, deep intervening fosse (Wth 4.5-7.5m; D 1.7-2.2m), an outer bank (Wth 4.2-9.5m; H 1.7-2.1m) and an outer fosse (Wth 3.5-4m; D 0.2-0.3m). The external face of the outer bank has been steepened and incorporated into a field boundary from W–NW–N. The outer fosse is not visible from ESE–S–W where a roadway, lane and farmyard overlie it. The original entrance may have been at NNE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 November 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrickduff.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Carrickduff, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrickduff.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrickduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Carrickduff · An Charraig Dhubh
- Area
- 1,580,971 m² (158.1 ha, 390.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeylara, and its townlands
- Barony
- Granard
- Electoral division
- Dalystown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 188 people lived in 62 households in the Dalystown electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinulty Lower, Ballinulty Upper, Clogh, Dalystown, Dring, Mullinroe
- Placenames
- Carrickduff 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.