# Castlecore, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Shrule, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford; in Irish An Caisleán Corr.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,082,646 m² (108.26 ha, 267.53 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,792 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Shrule, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/shrule.md
- Barony: Rathcline
- Electoral division: Ballymahon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,970 people lived in 1,076 households in the Ballymahon electoral division. 52% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32520
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130240
- Centre: latitude 53.561691, longitude -7.791461 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlecore, from 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 42,175 m² (4.22 ha, 10.42 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5333587: 42,175 m² (4.22 ha, 10.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5333587.md
- Parcel 5890147: 4,792 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5890147.md
- Parcel 2705807: 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2705807.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Castlecore in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 21 Oct 2021, Longford County Council 21304: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a dormer type dwelling house with entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable sewage treatment system and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/21304/0
- 22 Jan 2018, Longford County Council 1812: Conditional. Permission. construction of a single storey extension (16 sq.m) to side of existing dwelling and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/1812/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castlecore.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LF026-013001: Castle - motte, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF026-013001-. On a SSW-facing slope in pasture with extensive views in all directions. The Inny River is c. 450m to the S. A steep-sided, oval mound of earth and stone (H 4.5-6m; dims. at base c. 24m NE-SW; c. 16m NW-SE) encircled by fragmentary traces of a wide, shallow fosse. A large cavity on the summit (16.5m NE-SW; 12.5m NW-SE) and in the face of the motte at N is the result of quarrying. Traces of an unclassified castle (LF026-013002-) survive at E. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 March 2012
- LF026-013002: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF026-013002-. Associated with a motte (LF026-013001-). In 1518 the rental book of the earl of Kildare records payment from ‘Castell Corr 2 cartrons with the werys [LF026-013003-]’ (Mac Niocaill 1992, 275). A castle is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Rathcline barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.48). The remains of a short stretch of a mortared rubble wall (H 3m; Wall T 2m; L 4m) on the E edge of the summit of the motte may be the remains of this castle. (SMR file 1976) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 October 2012
- LF026-014: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF026-014----. On a low rise in pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 38m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a wide, shallow, external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF026-042: Cultivation ridges, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF026-042----. In grassland, overlooking the River Inny immediately to S. Cultivation ridges running NE-SW enclosed by a low earthen bank forming a large irregular-shaped field (diam. c. 214m N-S x 226m E-W) is clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages and on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthophoto Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 12 July 2022

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Castlecor House, gate lodge, 1845–1865, Regional interest, registry number 13402603, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF&regno=13402603. Detached formerly former gate lodge on L-shaped plan associated with Castlecor House (13402608), built c. 1855, having projecting gable-fronted bay to the south end of the main elevation (east) with canted bay window. Recent single-storey extensions to the rear (west). Now in use as private house. Pitched and hipped natural slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks with cut stone coping and string course. Timber bargeboards to projecting gable-fronted bay having fleur-de-lis timber finial to gable apex. Cast-iron gutters with moulded lion-headed details supported above limestone brackets. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls over chamfered dressed limestone plinth with flush ashlar limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and timber casement windows. Square-headed opening to north face of projecting bay to south end of the front elevation having glazed timber door. Set back from road in own grounds across the road from associated gateway (13402604) and to the northwest of Castlecor House. Wrought-iron railings to road-frontage to the east. Pedestrian gateway to the east comprising a pair of cast-iron gate posts having ball finials and a wrought-iron gate. Located to the east of Ballymahon.
- Castlecor House, gates/railings/walls, 1845–1865, Regional interest, registry number 13402604, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF&regno=13402604. Entrance gateway serving Castlecor House (13402608), built c. 1855, comprising a pair of cut limestone gate piers (on tapered square-plan) having recessed rectangular panels, moulded limestone plinths, moulded shallow pyramidal capstones and having a pair of ornate cast-iron gates having spear finials. Gateway flanked to either side (north and south) by sweeping sections of snecked dressed limestone boundary wall having chamfered dressed limestone plinths and dressed limestone coping over. Boundary walls terminated by snecked dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having chamfered dressed limestone plinths. Located across the road to the east of attendant gate lodge (13402603) and to the northwest of Castlecor House, at start of sweeping approach avenue to house.
- Castlecor House, hunting/fishing lodge, 1730–1770, National interest, registry number 13402608, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF&regno=13402608. Detached two-storey former hunting lodge, built c. 1740 or c. 1765, comprising a central two-storey block on octagonal-plan having single-bay two-storey wings to four of the sides of the octagon (roughly north, south west and west sides). Projecting wing to the west extended by a bay to the west, c. 1850. Two-storey block added to the northeast corner, between two of the earlier wings, built c. 1850. Three-bay two-storey block attached to the northeast side of nineteenth-century block, built c. 1913. Single-storey lean-to extension added to the northwest side of central octagon. Single-bay two-storey projection attached to the south end of projecting wing to the south side of octagon having box bay window at first floor level and modern conservatory attached to the ground floor. Modern single-bay two-storey block attached to the northwest side of entrance block. Building later in use as a convent and then as a nursing home. Currently out of use (2007). Hipped natural slate roofs to wings to octagonal block and to later two-storey sections to the northeast. Tall rendered chimneystacks to projecting wings of octagonal block and paired central chimneystacks to later three-bay two-storey blocks to the northeast (built c. 1850 and c. 1900). Hipped natural slate roof to octagonal block rising to flat platform over. Overhanging eaves to block to the northeast, c. 1913, supported on timber brackets. Glazed roof lanterns on circular-plan to centre of the roofs to two later blocks to northeast. Cast-iron rainwater goods with lion’s head motifs to gutters. Cut stone eaves courses. Cement rendered lined-and-ruled walls with raised block-and-start render quoins to the corners. String courses to earlier blocks, between ground and first floor level. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills; tall round-headed window openings to open four sides of octagonal block having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and cut stone sills. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to box bay window, tripartite to front face (south), having foliate timber console brackets. Tripartite pedimented doorcase to the centre of the front block (northeast) having Roman Doric pilasters supporting entablature and open bed pediment over; timber panelled door with petal fanlight, and with sidelights having leaded glass windows. Modern wheelchair ramp to entrance. Very interesting interior with single-open room to first storey of central octagon section having four-sided centrepiece/chimneybreast on square-plan with marble fireplaces to the faces. Corinthian columns to the corners of centrepiece/chimneybreast supporting marble Corinthian entablatures over having central segmental pediments to all four sides. Raised marble panels to segmental pediments depicting images of Apollo. Centrepiece rises to column over on octagonal-plan having pronounced dentil cornice and with coved ceiling over. Round-headed window openings framed by Corinthian pilasters having fielded shutters. Decorative plasterwork and pedimented lugged timber surrounds to a number of door openings. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the west of Ballymahon and a short distance to the north of the River Inny. Complex of single- and two-storey rubble stone outbuildings to the west, main gateway (13402604) and associated gate lodge (13402603) to the northwest.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Castlecore, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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_1719, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1719.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/castlecore.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/castlecore.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/castlecore.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Castlecore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Daroge: https://everytownland.com/longford/daroge.md
- Garrynagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/garrynagh.md
- Moygh: https://everytownland.com/longford/moygh-130761.md
- Rathmore: https://everytownland.com/longford/rathmore-130805.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/castlecore
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/castlecore