Formoyle (Farrell)

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Formoyle (Farrell), from 77 m² to 151,647 m² (15.16 ha, 37.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Formoyle (Farrell) 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.

• 14 Aug 2026Conditional

  the proposed construction of a detached residential garage to accommodate general storage and solid fuel storage for dwelling, inclusive of all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660258

• 10 Jul 2026Conditional

  proposed new slatted shed with creep area, cattle handling facilities, concrete yard, access and all ancillary site works including AA Screening Report is now included

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660222

• 3 Jul 2023Conditional

  to erect dwelling house and domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, provide new entrance, and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2396

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Fortwilliam Turlough SAC 000448
• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC 000440
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fortwilliam Turlough 000448

Recorded monuments

• LF021-020 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Within a heavily waterlogged hollow. This spring well is unenclosed. According to local information, patterns were held here up until the beginning of the 20th century. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

• LF021-024 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a low rise in pasture. Depicted as a subcircular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1977 (SMR file) noted that this possible cashel (c. 65m NE-SW; c. 52m NW-SE) was defined by a substantial drystone wall with traces of a fosse at E. The wall was overgrown with trees and thorn bushes. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 February 2012

• LF021-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This monument has been levelled. However, the outline of two banks with an intervening fosse, enclosing a subcircular area (c. 28m N-S; c. 26m E-W), may still be traced. At the perimeter at NW and E are field-clearance cairns. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 11 January 2012

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, erected c. 1900, comprising fluted shaft on moulded base with cast-iron shelf/platform (now broken), moulded spout and having fluted domed capping with acorn finial over. Pull lever to side. Now disused. Located adjacent to rendered wall, and set on roadside. Located to the south of Lanesborough and adjacent to rural crossroad junction at Formoyle.

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

At the centre of the townland of Formoyle (Farrell), about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Formoyle (Farrell).

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.

No address of the register names Formoyle (Farrell) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Formoyle (Farrell) · Formaoil (Farrell)

Area

917,743 m² (91.77 ha, 226.78 acres)

Civil parish

Rathcline, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Rathcline, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,700 people lived in 675 households in the Rathcline electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghakeel, Commons, Commons South, Cullentragh, Formoyle (Newcomen), Fortwilliam, Lismacmanus

Placenames

Formoyle (Farrell) 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.