Foxhall

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foxhall, from 183 m² to 131,694 m² (13.17 ha, 32.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Foxhall in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Foxhall.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Foxhall.

Architectural heritage

• Fox Hall, outbuilding, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of outbuildings originally associated with Fox Hall, built c. 1815, comprising single and two-storey ranges arranged around a courtyard. Five-bay two-storey range to the north with pitched slate roof and brick chimneystack. Roughcast render over coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings with brick voussoirs having remains of one-over-one and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door openings with brick voussoirs and timber panelled doors. Four-bay two-storey range to the east having hipped slate roof. Roughcast render over coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings at first floor with brick voussoirs and timber fittings. Four elliptical-headed carriage arches having rendered surrounds with Doric style pilasters and corrugated-metal doors. South range comprising coursed rubble limestone walls with corrugated-metal roof. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north range, north elevation. Pitched corrugated-metal roof. Roughly dressed coursed limestone masonry walls. Square-headed openings. Pair of carriage arches leading to courtyard, with brick voussoirs and piers with rendered keystones. Roughly dressed limestone pier to west with roughly dressed limestone masonry boundary walls. Walled gardens (13315011) to the south. Located to the northeast of site of Fox Hall (demolished 1946).

• Fox Hall, walled garden, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of walled garden associated with Fox Hall, built c. 1760, in former Fox Hall demesne. Coursed rubble limestone masonry walls. Square-headed entrance with ashlar limestone block-and-start surround with cast-iron gate having quatrefoil motifs. Outbuildings (13315010) to north. Located to the southeast of the site of Fox Hall (demolished 1946) and to the northeast of Legan.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Foxhall.

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 Foxhall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Foxhall · An Ráth Riabhach

Area

1,206,690 m² (120.67 ha, 298.18 acres)

Civil parish

Rathreagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Foxhall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Foxhall electoral division: 611 people in 236 households; 63% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardanragh, Carrigeen, Clygeen, Corrabola, Foxhall Glebe, Furze, Killeen, Kinard, Lurgan, Smithfield

Placenames

Foxhall 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.