Cuingareen
Townland in the civil parish of Columbkille, barony of Granard, Co. Longford; in Irish Coingirín
- Area
- 108.2 ha
- 267 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 8,488 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuingareen, from 363 m² to 192,314 m² (19.23 ha, 47.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cuingareen 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 Aug 2026N/a
the proposed construction of a 6 bay single slatted shed with underground effluent storage tank with adjoining feed passage, together with incorporating the existing adjoining yard space within the roof structure of the proposed shed and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2660264
2 Sept 2020Conditional
proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with percolation area and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20195
17 Sept 2018Conditional
the following: (1) Retention of existing dormer type extension as built and which is constructed to the rear of existing cottage type dwelling house (2) Retention of existing shed/garage type structure and all ancillary site works
Retention · Longford County Council, 18199
29 Aug 2018Conditional
demolish existing farm buildings and replace them with a five bay slatted shed with slurry holding tank underneath and concrete yard with walls. Also to construct a one bay roofed dungstead and all associated site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 18184
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 Cuingareen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cuingareen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cuingareen.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cuingareen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cuingareen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Cuingareen · Coingirín
- Area
- 1,082,106 m² (108.21 ha, 267.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Columbkille, and its townlands
- Barony
- Granard
- Electoral division
- Ballinamuck East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballinamuck East electoral division: 622 people in 209 households; 80% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghdaniel, Cloonback, Mollyglass, Rathmore
- Placenames
- Cuingareen 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.