Edera
Edera is a townland in the civil parish of Shrule, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Eadoire.
- Area
- 123.7 ha
- 306 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 12,681 m² (1.27 ha, 3.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Edera, from 972 m² to 98,813 m² (9.88 ha, 24.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Edera 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
10 Jul 2026N/a
domestic garage to the side of existing dwelling and changes to dwelling previously granted planning under 19327 and all ancillary site works
Retention · Longford County Council, 2660221
20 Oct 2025Conditional
to move existing access gates and install new recessed agricultural entrance gates with associated works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2560241
19 Dec 2019Conditional
dormer type dwelling, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19327
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 Edera.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Edera.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Edera.
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 Edera, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Edera.
- 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 Edera with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Edera · Eadoire
- Area
- 1,237,459 m² (123.75 ha, 305.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Shrule, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathcline
- Electoral division
- Ledwithstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardoghil, Derrycolumb, Derrymacar, Derrynabuntale, Derrynagalliagh, Gorteenclareen, Ledwithstown
- Placenames
- Edera 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.