Daroge
Townland in the civil parish of Shrule, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford; in Irish Daróg
- Area
- 167.3 ha
- 413 acres
- Land parcels
- 77
- registered freehold, median 4,172 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Daroge, from 37 m² to 183,010 m² (18.3 ha, 45.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Daroge 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
20 Jan 2026Unconditional
of PL 21/49 proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house with attached sunlounge & garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary works
Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 265
24 Feb 2021Conditional
proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house with attached sunlounge & garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2149
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 Daroge.
Recorded monuments
- LF026-012 Ringfort - rath
Description
In low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 37m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3-3.5m; H 0.1-0.4m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded an external fosse and fragmentary traces of a possible outer bank, both of which have since been levelled. 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 Daroge.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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_1719 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Daroge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Daroge · Daróg
- Area
- 1,673,308 m² (167.33 ha, 413.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Shrule, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathcline
- Electoral division
- Ballymahon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballymahon electoral division: 2,970 people in 1,076 households; 52% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cartronboy, Castlecore, Drumnacor, Garrynagh, Glebe, Gorteenclareen, Laragh, Moygh, Shrule
- Placenames
- Daroge 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.