Castlewilder

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlewilder, from 432 m² to 513,128 m² (51.31 ha, 126.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Castlewilder 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.

• 3 Oct 2022Conditional

  erect a 30m high lattice telecommunications structure together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, enclosed by security fencing and extend existing access track. The development is within the curtilage of a protected structure

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22233

• 22 Feb 2018Conditional

  proposed construction of two storey type dwelling, Detached Garage, proposed entrance and boundary wall/Fence, Wastewater Treatment System, percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1835

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 Castlewilder.

Recorded monuments

• LF023-105 Mound
  Description

  On a low rise in well-drained pasture. Not indicated on the 1837 or 1883 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1914 ed. as a small circular mound (max. base diam. c. 15m). It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 28 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• The Old Forge, RIC barracks, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey former RIC barracks, built c. 1830, having single-bay gable-fronted breakfront to the offset to the southeast side of the main elevation (northeast) and with single-bay lean-to additions to the northeast and southwest gable ends. Formerly also in use as a forge/smithy, from c. 1860 until after c. 1913 (Ordnance Survey six-inch third edition map). Now in use as a private house. Pitched natural slate roof with three red brick chimneystacks, one to either gable end and one over projecting. Modern pierced timber bargeboards to main body of building, pierced timber bargeboards to breakfront having timber finial over gable apex. Rubble limestone walls, probably formerly rendered. Square-headed window openings having timber casement windows with lattice glazing bars and painted stone sills. Two square-headed window openings to the northwest end of the front elevation at first floor level having multiple-plan timber casement windows or two-over-two pane horizontal sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to breakfront with replacement timber and glazed door with lattice glazing. Outbuilding to southeast of site, possibly reconstructed on present site, having pitched natural slate roof and rubble limestone walls. Recessed section to the southwest end of front elevation of outbuilding (northwest) having overhanging roof and a square-headed window opening having timber casement windows with lattice glazing bars, and with square-headed door openings timber battened door. Segmental-headed carriage arch opening to northeast end of front elevation of outbuilding (northwest) having cut limestone voussoirs to arch and with double timber battened doors. Set slightly back from road in own grounds to the southwest of Legan and to the north of Abbeyshrule. Rebuilt rubble stone wall to road-frontage to the north. Main entrance gateway to the northeast having a pair of rebuilt rubble stone piers (on square-plan) and a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates.

• Castlewilder, house, country house, 1700–1730 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey country house, built c. 1715 and altered c. 1880, having central single-bay two-storey gable-fronted bay to the front elevation (northeast) with two-bay single-storey lean-to extension attached to the northwest side. Pitched natural slate roof with over hanging eaves (to three sides – southeast gable end, northeast and southwest elevation) supported on timber brackets, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with rendered chimneystacks to either gable end (northwest and southeast). Timber bargeboards and timber drop finial to gable apex to southeast gable end. Terracotta ridge cresting to projecting central bay. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed diminishing window openings to front elevation having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows at second floor level; four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows or replacement window openings at first and ground floor level, all having tooled stone sills. Replacement window fittings to rear (southwest) and to gable ends. Square-headed door opening to the southeast face of projecting central bay, probably moved, having carved lugged limestone surround with architrave and moulded lintel, and with replacement door and sidelight. Set well back from road in elevated location to the south of Legan and to the northeast of Abbeyshrule. Complex of outbuildings (13402322) to the north/northwest.

• Castlewilder, outbuilding, 1760–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of two-storey outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to the north of Castlewilder House (13402321), built c. 1790 and altered c. 1850. Comprises four-bay two-storey range to the northwest of house having a recessed multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding attached to the northwest gable end, and a multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to the northeast. Exterior flight of cut stone steps to the centre of the range to the northeast giving access to doorway at first floor level. Pitched corrugated-asbestos cement roofs; section of natural slate roof remains to the northwest end of outbuilding to the northeast. Central section of roof to the outbuilding to the northeast now collapsed. Cut limestone eaves course to northeast range and to the advanced four-bay two-storey range to the southeast end of the outbuilding to the northwest, red brick eaves course with dogtooth detailing to recessed section to northwest range. Raised rendered verge to the southeast gable end of outbuilding to the northwest, and some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Partially roughcast and limewashed walls, render now failing and exposing squared rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings having mainly timber louvered fittings; some latticed window fittings and timber sliding sash windows survive to outbuilding to the northwest. Tooled limestone sills to majority of window openings. Square-headed doorways having timber battened doors and half-doors; square-headed timber loading bays with timber battened doors to some first floor openings. Cut stone plinth blocks and cut stone steps and/or thresholds to a number of door openings. Red brick reveals to a number of window and door openings. Segmental-headed carriage arch opening to the northwest end of range to the northwest having redbrick voussoirs to arch. Square-headed carriage arch to the projecting four-bay outbuilding to the southeast end of northwest range. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the north of Castlewilder House (13402321) with overgrown gravel surface to courtyard. Located to the south of Legan and to the northeast of Abbeyshrule.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1820 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Castlewilder · An Claí Dubh

Area

1,097,210 m² (109.72 ha, 271.13 acres)

Civil parish

Agharra, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

Electoral division

Agharra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Agharra electoral division: 480 people in 173 households; 85% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Agharra, Ardanragh, Cloonbrin, Ratharney, Rathsallagh, Vicarstown

Placenames

Castlewilder 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.