Foygh

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foygh, from 337 m² to 135,424 m² (13.54 ha, 33.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Foygh 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.

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  a 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm and energy storage compound with a total area of circa 130 hectares. The proposed development will consist of a solar farm comprising of c. 661,500 sq.m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, associated string inverters mounted to rear of panels and 42 no. single storey electrical transformer stations. The proposed development includes an energy storage compound consisting of 38 no. containerised energy storage modules and associated plant and equipment, 10 no. transformers, 2 no. auxiliary transformers, 1 no. medium voltage control / switching substation and 1 no. spare parts container. The proposed development will also include underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site and within the L1139, L1137, L1135, R392 and L1132 public roads, and crossing of the Royal Canal (either by open trench or horizontal directional drill), temporary construction compounds, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks (including clear span bridge over Donacurry River), landscaping, drainage and all ancillary development works and apparatus necessary to facilitate the proposed development. Construction and operational access will be via 5 no. existing entrances from the L1139, L1137, L1135 and L1132 which will be upgraded and 2 no. new entrances from the L11351. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460325

• 12 Feb 2024Conditional

  the proposed construction of a holiday lodge site consisting of 9 no. 3 bed lodges, 4 no. 2 bed lodges, a manager's office, plant room and laundry, site entrance, internal road & footpaths, lighting, play area, boundary fence, wastewater treatment system, percolation area & all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 245

• 5 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct a storey and a half type dwelling house and detached domestic garage, new & modified entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20257

• 7 Feb 2020Conditional

  for change of use of existing shop to restaurant, change of use of kitchen from residential to commercial, new signage and all associated works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2030

• 29 Aug 2018Refused

  the proposed construction of a storey and a half type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18185

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Foygh.

Architectural heritage

• Foygh Bridge, bridge, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch humpbacked canal bridge carrying road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Rubble stone construction to spandrel walls, formerly rendered, with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Rubble stone construction to parapets, formerly rendered, with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Water pipe to east elevation of bridge. Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Towpath to south bank of canal, going under bridge, with dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (north and south). Located to the south of Keenagh.

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 10 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 Foygh.

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

Name

Foygh · An Fhaiche

Area

1,622,468 m² (162.25 ha, 400.92 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommock, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Ledwithstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ledwithstown electoral division: 379 people in 142 households; 83% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonbreany, Cornacarta, Derryveagh, Kilcommock Glebe, Ledwithstown, Tirlickeen

Placenames

Foygh 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.