# Foxhall Glebe, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Rathreagh, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford; in Irish Gléib an Rátha Riabhaigh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 132,517 m² (13.25 ha, 32.75 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,701 m² (2.17 ha, 5.36 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Rathreagh, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/rathreagh.md
- Barony: Ardagh
- Electoral division: Foxhall, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32680
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130519
- Centre: latitude 53.629554, longitude -7.618343 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foxhall Glebe, from 1,978 m² to 28,822 m² (2.88 ha, 7.12 acres); 5 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 66166: 28,822 m² (2.88 ha, 7.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/66166.md
- Parcel 53710: 26,848 m² (2.68 ha, 6.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53710.md
- Parcel 69422: 26,221 m² (2.62 ha, 6.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/69422.md
- Parcel 81749: 17,181 m² (1.72 ha, 4.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81749.md
- Parcel 80387: 2,074 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80387.md
- Parcel 53806: 1,978 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/53806.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Foxhall Glebe 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)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LF024-003001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF024-003001-. In pasture on demesne land, in the S half of a graveyard (LF024-003003-). In 1397 Donatus Ofrarguil was appointed to the vicarage of ‘Rathriebach’ (Cal. papal letters 1904, vol. 5, 105). In 1594 it was granted to John Lye of Rathbride, county Kildare (Nicholls 1994, vol. 3, 240) and in 1607 it was granted to Patrick Fox of Dublin (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 115). The church is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Ardagh barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.25) and on the Down Survey map (1655-6) of Reathreagh parish (NLI, MS 713). This late-medieval church (ext. dims. 14.9m E-W; 7.4m N-S; wall T 0.9m) is constructed of roughly coursed limestone. It was extended to the W and extensively refurbished in the late 18th century. A plaque, dated 1772, over the elaborate Classical doorway and surround in the W gable commemorates this work. The outline of the original W gable is still identifiable. There is a three-light window in the E gable; its internal stonework possibly dates to the 17th century but the external stonework is of 18th-century date. There are two narrower twin-light windows in the S wall. The effigial tomb (LF024-003002-) of Nathaniel Fox, dated 1634, lies within the interior, against the N wall. (ITA Survey 1944; (Craig and O'Connell 1980, 136-41; Casey and Rowan 1993, 352-3, Pl. 58) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013
- LF024-003002: Wall monument - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF024-003002-. Within the interior of a church (LF024-030001-), set against the blank N wall is the limestone Fox wall monument. The reclining effigy of Sir Nathaniel Fox dressed in full armour, of which only the torso and thighs survive, rests on an altar-type base. Rising, from either side of the base, are paired Ionic columns surmounted by entablatures, the dentillated cornices of which form the imposts of a round arch enclosing a heraldic achievement above a Latin inscription, surmounted on either side by a shield. There is a Greek sphinx flanking either side of the round-headed arch, with a cherub in each spandrel. The whole is surmounted by strapwork forming a type of pediment, flanked by obelisks, resting on a moulded dentillated cornice. The inscription, translated by Du Noyer (Anon. 1895, 107), reads: 'Here lies Nathaniel Fox of Rathreagh, Esquire, the founder of this church, son and heir of PATRICK FOX, soldier, of Moynor, in the county of Westmeath, and very like him. He married ELIZABETH, daughter of WALTER HUSSY, Esqre., of Moyl-Hussy, by whom he had eight sons and five daughters, of whom eight sons and three daughters still survive. PATRICK, son and heir of the above-named NATHANIEL, married BARBARA, daughter of the most noble lord PATRICK PLUNKET, Baron of Dunsany. The said NATHANIEL and ELIZABETH lived twenty-five years in the state of holy matrimony, and he died at Rathreagh on the 2nd of February, 1634, in the 46th year of his age'. (ITA Survey 1944; Casey and Rowan 1993, 352-3, Pl. 58; Moore 2007, No. 17) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013
- LF024-003003: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF024-003003-. Associated with a late-medieval church (LF024-003001-). This irregularly shaped graveyard (50m N-S; 45m E-W) is enclosed by concrete posts with an intervening iron mesh. Access is via a wrought-iron gate and adjacent concrete stile. Memorials date from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Within the church is a wall monument (LF024-003002-) commemorating Sir Nathaniel Fox who died in 1634. (ITA Survey 1944; Casey and Rowan 1993, 352-3, Pl. 58; Lennon 2005) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

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)

- Fox Hall, church/chapel, 1620–1775, National interest, registry number 13315009, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF&regno=13315009. Freestanding two-bay single-cell Church of Ireland church, built c. 1630, with eighteenth century fabric, having been repaired, remodelled, extended to the west end and re-slated in 1772. Now in ruins and overgrown with ivy. No roof, originally pitched. Roughcast render, now failing, over roughly coursed rubble limestone walls. Two twin-light pointed arch window openings to south elevation of nave having cut stone tracery. Triple-light pointed arch window opening to the east gable end having carved limestone Geometric tracery. Round-headed doorway to the west wall, dated 1772 (rebuilt), comprising ashlar limestone surround with Doric style pilasters supporting entablature with frieze having triglyphs and metopes. Ornate motifs including a bucranium over inscribed voussoirs with carved keystone having floral/patera motif. Ornate carved limestone classical/Jacobean wall tomb/effigial tomb (dated 1634) to the blank north wall, having Ionic pilasters, Fox family coat of arms and reclined figural sculpture (now reduced to torso and thigh) of Sir Nathaniel Fox dressed in full armour. Carved limestone plaque to interior west wall. Graveyard (on sub-octagonal plan) to site bounded by remains of rubble limestone masonry walls. Wrought-iron gate gives access to site. Located to the northeast of Legan and to the north of the site of Fox Hall (demolished 1946).

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: 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 Glebe.
- 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/foxhall-glebe.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/foxhall-glebe.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/foxhall-glebe.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Foxhall Glebe 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)

- Foxhall: https://everytownland.com/longford/foxhall.md
- Killeen: https://everytownland.com/longford/killeen-130597.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.

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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.

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