# Doonacurry, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommock, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford; in Irish Tamhnach an Churraigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 343,849 m² (34.38 ha, 84.97 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,899 m² (2.19 ha, 5.41 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcommock, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/kilcommock.md - Barony: Rathcline - Electoral division: Ledwithstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 379 people lived in 142 households in the Ledwithstown electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32766 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130458 - Centre: latitude 53.58108, longitude -7.825141 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonacurry, from 286 m² to 78,831 m² (7.88 ha, 19.48 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 82098: 78,831 m² (7.88 ha, 19.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/82098.md - Parcel 73803: 67,355 m² (6.74 ha, 16.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/73803.md - Parcel 78295: 53,638 m² (5.36 ha, 13.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78295.md - Parcel 74028: 46,213 m² (4.62 ha, 11.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74028.md - Parcel 72358: 23,897 m² (2.39 ha, 5.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/72358.md - Parcel 57783: 23,790 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57783.md - Parcel 64498: 21,899 m² (2.19 ha, 5.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/64498.md - Parcel 71102: 18,100 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71102.md - Parcel 4795084: 3,511 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4795084.md - Parcel 57658: 2,833 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57658.md - Parcel 66882: 2,299 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/66882.md - Parcel 77624: 1,770 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/77624.md - Parcel 5525097: 286 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5525097.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Doonacurry 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) 1 application, newest first. - 20 Dec 2024, Longford County Council 2460325: Conditional. Permission. a 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm and energy storage compound with a total area of circa 130 hectares. The proposed development will consist of a solar farm comprising of c. 661,500 sq.m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, associated string inverters mounted to rear of panels and 42 no. single storey electrical transformer stations. The proposed development includes an energy storage compound consisting of 38 no. containerised energy storage modules and associated plant and equipment, 10 no. transformers, 2 no. auxiliary transformers, 1 no. medium voltage control / switching substation and 1 no. spare parts container. The proposed development will also include underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site and within the L1139, L1137, L1135, R392 and L1132 public roads, and crossing of the Royal Canal (either by open trench or horizontal directional drill), temporary construction compounds, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks (including clear span bridge over Donacurry River), landscaping, drainage and all ancillary development works and apparatus necessary to facilitate the proposed development. Construction and operational access will be via 5 no. existing entrances from the L1139, L1137, L1135 and L1132 which will be upgraded and 2 no. new entrances from the L11351. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460325/0 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 Doonacurry. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Doonacurry. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doonacurry. ## 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 Doonacurry, 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. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonacurry. - 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/doonacurry.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/doonacurry.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/doonacurry.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Doonacurry 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) - Ardoghil: https://everytownland.com/longford/ardoghil.md - Cornacarta: https://everytownland.com/longford/cornacarta.md - Laragh: https://everytownland.com/longford/laragh.md - Ledwithstown: https://everytownland.com/longford/ledwithstown.md - Mullawornia: https://everytownland.com/longford/mullawornia.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. --- 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/doonacurry - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/doonacurry