Fihoges
Townland in the civil parish of Clongesh, barony of Longford, Co. Longford; in Irish Na Faicheoga
- Area
- 39.2 ha
- 97 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 5,935 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fihoges, from 306 m² to 194,738 m² (19.47 ha, 48.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Fihoges 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
30 Jan 2025Conditional
the following; (a) the construction of an extension to an existing storage shed together with loading bay (b) revised site boundary (c) along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared for the development and will be submitted with this application
Permission · Longford County Council, 2560016
19 Sept 2024Conditional
of an existing site building, along with all other associated site works
Retention · Longford County Council, 2460208
25 Apr 2024N/a
to retain an existing site building. Permission is sought for (a) extension to an existing storage shed together with loading bay (b) revised site boundary (c) along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460081
26 Apr 2021Conditional
proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with percolation area & ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21119
31 Aug 2020Conditional
for revised plans and revised location of proposed storage shed from that previously granted under planning ref: PL19/191, along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 20191
16 Oct 2019Conditional
of Pl15/5 proposed construction of extensions to existing 3 no. Grower/Finisher units, extension to existing Farrowing Unit together with the proposed erection of 2 no. bulk feed silos to service existing piggery unit and all ancillary works
Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 19261
15 Jul 2019Conditional
construct a storage shed and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19191
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Brown Bog SAC 002346
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Forbes Complex SAC 001818
- Special Protection Area: Ballykenny-Fisherstown Bog SPA 004101
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Brown Bog 000442
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Forbes Complex 001818
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fihoges.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fihoges.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1666 (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 Fihoges with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Fihoges · Na Faicheoga
- Area
- 391,712 m² (39.17 ha, 96.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clongesh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Cloondara, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloondara electoral division: 718 people in 265 households; 80% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brianstown, Cartronlebagh, Cornollen, Kilmore Lower, Tully
- Placenames
- Fihoges 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.