Castlebaun

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlebaun, from 437 m² to 127,892 m² (12.79 ha, 31.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Castlebaun 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.

• 24 Jan 2023Conditional

  construct a milking parlour with connecting dairy, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2315

• 14 Sept 2018Conditional

  a new entrance to forestry lands, new gateway, new fence and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18196

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 Castlebaun.

Recorded monuments

• LF005-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a terrace on a S-facing slope overlooking a stream. A raised oval area (40.5m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed from WSW-W-NNW by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4m; H 0.3-0.5m) and by a scarp (H 0.8-1.7m) from NNW-N-NNE, and from SE-S-SW. Elsewhere a natural scarp defines the monument. There is no trace of a fosse. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Castlebaun, about 1 in 20 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 Castlebaun.

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

Name

Castlebaun · An Caisleán Bán

Area

1,041,266 m² (104.13 ha, 257.3 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbroney, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Lislea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

140 people lived in 50 households in the Lislea electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickateane, Carrowlinan, Drumderg, Lettergonnell

Placenames

Castlebaun 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.