# Formoyle (Newcomen), Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathcline, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford; in Irish Formaoil (Newcowen). - Area (Tailte Éireann): 867,652 m² (86.77 ha, 214.4 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,103 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathcline, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/rathcline.md - Barony: Rathcline - Electoral division: Rathcline, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33411 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130514 - Centre: latitude 53.622063, longitude -7.994826 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Formoyle (Newcomen), from 97 m² to 105,532 m² (10.55 ha, 26.08 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 79836: 105,532 m² (10.55 ha, 26.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79836.md - Parcel 72484: 84,095 m² (8.41 ha, 20.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/72484.md - Parcel 63343: 78,138 m² (7.81 ha, 19.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63343.md - Parcel 55774: 77,444 m² (7.74 ha, 19.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55774.md - Parcel 56928: 60,462 m² (6.05 ha, 14.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56928.md - Parcel 73399: 51,485 m² (5.15 ha, 12.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/73399.md - Parcel 73400: 38,739 m² (3.87 ha, 9.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/73400.md - Parcel 2485979: 30,315 m² (3.03 ha, 7.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2485979.md - Parcel 78109: 24,338 m² (2.43 ha, 6.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78109.md - Parcel 80504: 20,520 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80504.md - Parcel 65983: 19,409 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/65983.md - Parcel 72626: 14,261 m² (1.43 ha, 3.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/72626.md - Parcel 77620: 13,071 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/77620.md - Parcel 68932: 12,275 m² (1.23 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/68932.md - Parcel 78893: 11,933 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78893.md - Parcel 80294: 10,377 m² (1.04 ha, 2.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80294.md - Parcel 72483: 9,700 m² (0.97 ha, 2.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/72483.md - Parcel 69890: 9,143 m² (0.91 ha, 2.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/69890.md - Parcel 55663: 7,063 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55663.md - Parcel 80360: 4,706 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80360.md - Parcel 53030: 4,334 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53030.md - Parcel 4776138: 3,674 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4776138.md - Parcel 4521595: 3,093 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4521595.md - Parcel 61414: 3,042 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61414.md - Parcel 4521580: 3,029 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4521580.md - Parcel 2726258: 2,604 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2726258.md - Parcel 57572: 2,432 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57572.md - Parcel 56166: 1,977 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/56166.md - Parcel 72821: 1,964 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/72821.md - Parcel 81082: 1,677 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/81082.md - Parcel 61079: 1,609 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/61079.md - Parcel 2526887: 1,342 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2526887.md - Parcel 79176: 1,316 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/79176.md - Parcel 3826139: 282 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3826139.md - Parcel 3826019: 113 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3826019.md - Parcel 2555737: 97 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2555737.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Formoyle (Newcomen) in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 14 Aug 2026, Longford County Council 2660258: Conditional. Permission. the proposed construction of a detached residential garage to accommodate general storage and solid fuel storage for dwelling, inclusive of all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660258/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Fortwilliam Turlough SAC, site code 000448, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000448 - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC, site code 000440, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000440 - Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA, site code 004064, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004064 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree, site code 000440 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF021-010001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF021-010001-. Associated with Formoyle House (LF021-010002-), which lies c. 130m to the ESE. According to local folklore, in 1682 this enclosure or ‘fort’ was believed to be ‘the dwelling place of the Famous Giant Henry Macoole and his Offspring and is called in Irish writings fformalenetiene which signifies the Chief place of the Giants; here was a very large round Rampier which men commonly called [blank] Fort, where the said Giants lived there was likewise under it ' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 208). In May 1642 Dame Mary Browne, wife of Sir Silvester Browne of Formoyle, stated that Irishmen came 'to the gate of the said Fermoil, and desired to have them opened, which she refusing, they came over the fence, or great ditch [bank and fosse], into the base court [bawn]' (Hickson 1884, vol. 1, 358). Depicted on the 1914 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a substantial bank and fosse extending from S-W-NNE, with a NW-SE running field boundary running between the bank and fosse from S-WSW. All that survives of the bank along the line of the NW-SE running drystone field boundary is its external stone facing, which is visible on the inner face of the fosse. From WSW-N and at NNE the bank of earth and stone (base Wth 8m; top Wth 4m; H 1.5 max.), stone-faced externally, is clearly visible. The fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 0.6m) is largely infilled. From NNE-E the bank and fosse have been levelled but the line of the monument is defined by a low scarp. On the basis of the extant remains it would seem that the enclosed area was originally polygonal in plan (dims. c. 115m N-S; c. 100m E-W). The enclosure may have been reused as a bawn or outer courtyard to the rear of Formoyle House, and it may have acted as an outer fortification protecting the orchards that were formerly located within it (Kenny 1995, 57) and the gardens (LF021-010003-) immediately to the S of the house. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 August 2011 - LF021-010002: House - 17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF021-010002-. On a very gentle SW-facing slope on a prominent rise in rolling pasture. This house, which appears to be of multiperiod construction, may initially have been built around 1620 as the Commissioners for the Plantation of Longford note that Thomas Clarke, who received a grant of 500 acres of land, 'hath begun a good stone house which is two stories high and will finish it shortly, having all the materials ready for it in place' (BL, Milles Collection Vol. II, MS 4756, f. 126; Kenny 1995, 52). In 1642 it was the home of Sir Silvester Browne of Formoyle. In May of that year it is recorded that Dame Mary Browne, his wife, stated that Irishmen came 'to the gate of the said Fermoil, and desired to have them opened, which she refusing, they came over the fence, or great ditch [LF021-010001-], into the base court' (Hickson 1884, vol. 1, 358). Described by Nicholas Dowdall in 1682 as 'now the state of Sir John Parker, Knt. where his father John, Lord ArchB[ishop] of Dublin, built a fair house with stables and all necessary houses and planted a pleasure Garden [LF021-010003-] and Orchards’ (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 208). By 1681 the house had become a weekend or countryside retreat where one could 'rest contented and enjoy the full pleasure and satisfaction of the country in hunting venison and then eating it' (Kenny 1995, 58). This house may have been built on the site of or may have incorporated the earlier house. In 1893 the house was described as a 'modern erection but of interest in many ways, one being that the two ends of the house have no windows at less than 30 feet from the ground' (ibid., 52). An old black and white photograph indicates it was a double-pile, two-storey house with six chimney stacks. The dormer attic was lit by flat-headed windows located on either side of two tall, rectangular, gable-ended chimney stacks. A central block was surmounted by two more chimney stacks (ibid., 49). It was partially demolished in 1946 (ibid., 52). The house was orientated on a NE-SW axis. Only the SW gable (ext. L 11.35m; wall T 2.1m) and the return of the NW wall survive. It is constructed with limestone rubble and a cut-stone plinth (H 0.6m) runs along its base. Internally a spine wall (T 0.73m) indicates that it was divided into two rooms. The SE room (Wth 4.5m) has a large centrally located fireplace at ground-floor level, while at first-floor level there is a large, blocked-up, floor-to-ceiling window off-centre to the NW. High up in the wall, at attic level, single-light windows are visible on either side of the destroyed chimney stack. An outhouse is built up against the internal face of the NW room (Wth 4.45m). At first-floor level there is evidence of a centrally located fireplace. The return of the NW wall (T 0.7m; L 0.4m) indicates that the house had large, floor-to-ceiling windows at the ground and first-floor levels. No other features are visible. The associated gardens (LF021-010003-) adjoined the house to the SW and a possible enclosure (LF021-010001-), which may have been reused as a bawn or courtyard, is located c. 130m to the WNW. A deer park (LF021-062----) is also associated. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2012 - LF021-010003: Designed landscape - formal garden, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF021-010003-. Associated with a 17th-century house (LF021-010002-) and adjoining it to the SW. In 1682 Nicholas Dowdall noted that Sir John Parker’s father ‘John, Lord ArchB[ishop] of Dublin, built a fair house with stables and all necessary houses and planted a pleasure Garden and Orchards.' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 208). The orchards were located in the field to the NW of the house within the possible enclosure (LF021-010001-) (Kenny 1995, 57). On the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map the gardens are shown as two roughly rectangular fields aligned NW-SE (dims. NW field: c. 75m ENE-WSW; 60m N-S; dims. SE field: 95m NNW-SSE; 80m E-W) separated by a narrow pathway or avenue. The enclosing S and W walls (H 1.2m; T 0.65m) constructed of mortared stone survive. Wall-footings of the SW half of a projecting circular tower (int. diam. 3.3m; wall T. 0.6m) are evident midway along the S wall. Its function is unclear - it may have marked the entrance into the gardens or was possibly a dovecote or gazebo. No traces of the internal dividing walls survive but the pathway or avenue is evident as a low rise running in a NNE-SSW direction. The SE part of the garden is now used as a farmyard and a number of outhouses have been built within it. The line of an old roadway can be seen on an aerial photograph (SMR file) in the fields to the SW of the garden. It possibly led to the pathway of the walled garden. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 February 2013 - LF021-011: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF021-011----. On a SSE-facing slope in rough pasture. Depicted as a roughly circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised subcircular area (21.3m E-W; 17.3m N-S) enclosed by the grassed-over remains of a low, narrow, drystone wall (Wth 2.1m; H 0.5m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Formoyle (Newcomen). ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Formoyle (Newcomen), about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 (Newcomen). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/formoyle-newcomen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/formoyle-newcomen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/formoyle-newcomen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Formoyle (Newcomen) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghakeel: https://everytownland.com/longford/aghakeel.md - Aghaloughan: https://everytownland.com/longford/aghaloughan.md - Agharanagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/agharanagh-130034.md - Bleanavoher: https://everytownland.com/longford/bleanavoher.md - Carrowstrawly: https://everytownland.com/longford/carrowstrawly.md - Formoyle (Farrell): https://everytownland.com/longford/formoyle-farrell.md - Lismacmanus: https://everytownland.com/longford/lismacmanus.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/formoyle-newcomen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/formoyle-newcomen