Farraghroe

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farraghroe, from 1,193 m² to 192,370 m² (19.24 ha, 47.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Farraghroe 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.

• 7 Sept 2026N/a

  attic conversion which includes six windows/skylights in the roof

  Retention, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660280

• 20 Jan 2026Unconditional

  of PL 22/239 the proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 264

• 13 Oct 2022Conditional

  the proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 22239

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Farraghroe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farraghroe.

Architectural heritage

• Farragh House, outbuilding, 1810–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single-storey outbuildings formerly associated with Farragh/Farraghroe House (demolished c. 1960), built c. 1820 and c. 1850, arranged around a courtyard to the northwest of the site of the house. Now in use as farmyard. Detached six-bay single-storey range to north, c. 1820, with pitched natural slate roof, coursed roughly dressed limestone masonry walls and with flush dressed quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with flush dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds having fixed timber windows with limestone sills. Square-headed door openings with timber battened half-doors and flush dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds. Square-headed carriage arch to west gable end having timber lintel and double-leaf wrought-iron flat bar gates. Vents to south elevation, just below eaves. Six-bay single-storey range to south (two three-bay semi-detached buildings), c. 1850, having pitched natural slate roof with rendered end chimneystacks. Coursed roughly squared limestone masonry walls with dressed quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with replacement fittings and limestone sills. Square-headed door openings with replacement doors. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to west having pitched natural slate roof and coursed roughly squared limestone masonry walls with dressed quoins to the corners. Square-headed carriage arch opening with replacement iron doors flanked by loophole openings. Set back from road to the southwest of Ballinalee and to the northwest of the site of Farragh/Farraghroe House. Rubble stone boundary walls, some with cut stone coping, to site. Gateway to the northeast comprising a pair of coursed squared limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having carved capstones and a pair of hooped wrought-iron flat bar gates.

• Farragh House, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1850, on T-shaped plan having central projection to the main elevation (west). Originally built to serve Farragh/Farraghroe House, now demolished. Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roofs with central rendered chimneystack having terracotta chimney pots. Snecked dressed limestone masonry walls with flush cut limestone quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening to north face of projecting bay with timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds to the to the southwest of Ballinalee and to the northwest of the site of Farragh/Farraghroe House. Gateway to front (west) having wrought-iron gate. Associated entrance gates to estate to the northwest (13401456).

• Farragh House, steward's house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former steward's house, built c. 1850, having two-bay single-storey return to rear (west), and extension to south. Formerly associated with Farragh/Farraghroe House having central pair of ashlar limestone chimneystacks and remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls over rendered plinth course and with render quoins to the corners. Square-headed windows openings with replacement windows and with tooled limestone sills. Central round-headed opening having carved rusticated limestone surround and replacement door and fanlight. Set within its own grounds to the northwest of the site of Farragh/Farraghroe House (demolished c. 1960). Farmyard complex (13401425) to rear (west), and gateway (13401456) and gate lodge (13401426) to the northeast.

• Farragh House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Boundary walls surrounding the former Farragh/Farraghroe House estate (house demolished), erected c. 1850, comprising coursed rubble limestone masonry walls. Gate ways to wall, comprising cut limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gates. Located to the northeast of the site of Farragh/Farraghroe House, and to the southwest of Ballinalee.

• Farragh House, outbuilding, 1810–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding on L-shaped plan, built c. 1820 and extended c. 1850, now in disuse. Formerly associated with Farragh/Farraghroe House (demolished c. 1960). Pitched natural slate roofs, now partially collapsing. Roughly dressed limestone masonry walls with roughly dressed quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills, cut limestone block-and-start surrounds, and with replacement windows. Square-headed door opening with cut limestone block-and-start surround. Located to the east of the site of Farragh/Farraghroe House, and to the southwest of Ballinalee.

• Farragh House, walled garden, 1810–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden on rectangular-plan, built c. 1820 and (possibly) extended c. 1850. Formerly associated with Farragh/Farraghroe House (demolished c. 1960). Now disused. Coursed rubble limestone masonry walls having cut stone coping over. Reconstructed segmental-headed carriage arch entrance with cut limestone voussoirs and replacement timber battened double doors. Located to the southwest of the site of Farragh/Farraghroe House, and to the southwest of Ballinalee.

• Farragh House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, built c. 1850, formerly serving Farragh/Farraghroe House, now demolished. Comprising a pair of ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan) having carved stepped capstones, chamfered ashlar limestone plinths and double-leaf cast-iron gates. Stile adjacent to east pier. Gateway flanked to either side by quadrant sections of rubble limestone masonry walls having cut limestone coping and terminated by coursed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having carved stepped capstones. Rubble stone boundary walls to the east and west. Located to the northwest of the site of Farragh/Farraghroe House, at the start of long approach avenue, and to the southwest of Ballinalee. Attendant gate lodge (13401426) adjacent to the southeast.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farraghroe.

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.

No address of the register names Farraghroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Farraghroe · An Fhorrach Rua

Area

1,875,989 m² (187.6 ha, 463.57 acres)

Civil parish

Killoe, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Cloonee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloonee electoral division: 767 people in 271 households; 80% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygarve, Glannagh, Glenoghil, Killoe Glebe, Killyfad, Kilmoyle, Rhine

Placenames

Farraghroe 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.