Edenmore
Edenmore is a townland in the civil parish of Killoe, barony of Longford, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is An tÉadan Mór.
- Area
- 362.6 ha
- 896 acres
- Land parcels
- 96
- registered freehold, median 11,817 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Edenmore, from 94 m² to 343,314 m² (34.33 ha, 84.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Edenmore 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 Apr 2026Conditional
(A) The proposed renovations of an existing derelict cottage type dwelling house together with an extension to same. (B) Construction of a detached domestic garage. (C) Demolition of existing outhouses. (D) Installation of a suitable on-site treatment system with polishing filter to service the cottage type dwelling house. (E) Formation of new entrance and all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660127
12 Dec 2023Conditional
the proposed change of house design from a storey and a half type dwelling house which was previously granted full planning permission under planning reference no. PL17/234 and an extension of duration of planning under planning reference no. PL22/149 to a dormer bungalow type dwelling house, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2360224
29 Jun 2022Conditional
of PL 17/234 - for the proposed construction of two storey type dwelling house with Detached Garage, Entrance, Boundary Fence/Wall, Wastewater Treatment System with Percolation area and all ancillary works
Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 22149
19 Apr 2021Conditional
of an existing telecommunications support structure (previously granted under plan ref no. 09/280) together with associated ground equipment cabinets within a fenced compound located at
Retention · Longford County Council, 21114
25 Mar 2019Conditional
to construct a story and half type dwelling house, detached garage for domestic use, sewage treatment system with percolation area and attached ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 1982
12 Feb 2019Conditional
permission for erection of a single-storey extension and detached single-car garage with a concrete drive, both to the rear of the existing house. Both structures have tiled roofs and rendered walls to match the existing house, and are intended for domestic use only
Retention · Longford County Council, 1936
12 Sept 2017Conditional
for the proposed construction of two storey type dwelling house with Detached Garage, Entrance, Boundary Fence/Wall, Wastewater Treatment System with Percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 17234
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 Edenmore.
Recorded monuments
- LF005-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
On an E-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised subcircular area (24.5m E-W; 23m N-S) enclosed from NE-S-NNW by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.5-6.5m; H 0.55-0.95m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.7m). At the base of the bank and scarp from NNW-N-SE is a fosse (Wth 4.2-5.5m; D 0.25-0.5m). A break (Wth 4m) in the bank at ENE probably marks the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 11 June 2011
- LF005-006 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the NE slope of Edenmore Hill. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Extant remains comprise a poorly defined low scarp (H 0.2m at S; 1.5m at N) delimiting a circular area (diam. c. 55m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 11 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Edenmore.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Edenmore, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Edenmore.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Edenmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Edenmore · An tÉadan Mór
- Area
- 3,626,493 m² (362.65 ha, 896.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Ballinamuck East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 622 people lived in 209 households in the Ballinamuck East electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Edenmore 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.