# Freaghmeen, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Street, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford; in Irish An Fraoch Mín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 557,714 m² (55.77 ha, 137.81 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 63,538 m² (6.35 ha, 15.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Street, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/street.md - Barony: Ardagh - Electoral division: Coolamber, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Coolamber electoral division: 397 people in 131 households; 88% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 10% 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/32854 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130522 - Centre: latitude 53.706485, longitude -7.491718 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Freaghmeen, from 3,615 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres) to 140,511 m² (14.05 ha, 34.72 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 59886: 140,511 m² (14.05 ha, 34.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59886.md - Parcel 56582: 138,813 m² (13.88 ha, 34.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56582.md - Parcel 52646: 105,707 m² (10.57 ha, 26.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52646.md - Parcel 60425: 70,618 m² (7.06 ha, 17.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60425.md - Parcel 61880: 56,458 m² (5.65 ha, 13.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61880.md - Parcel 70948: 23,486 m² (2.35 ha, 5.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70948.md - Parcel 52469: 17,657 m² (1.77 ha, 4.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52469.md - Parcel 5491545: 3,615 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5491545.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Freaghmeen 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. - 20 Apr 2018, Longford County Council 1881: Conditional. Permission. proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/1881/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Freaghmeen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Freaghmeen. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13401522, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13401522. Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having off centre windbreak to front elevation, and four single-storey outbuilding adjoining northeast gable aligned with house. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with rendered chimneystack. Painted rendered battered mud walls with stone footings and masonry construction to the corners. Square-headed window openings with timber windows, having eight-pane swivelling toplights over eight-pane lower lights, having stone sills. Square-headed door opening to windbreak porch with timber battened door. Set back from road, at a right-angle to the road alignment, to the east of Edgeworthstown. Outbuilding attached to the northeast gable of house having corrugated-metal roof, rendered rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Yard to front of house (southeast) having four-bay single-storey outbuilding to the south having corrugated-metal roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Modern house adjacent to the southeast and modern farm outbuildings to site. Modern farm gates gives access to yard from the northeast. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Freaghmeen. - 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/freaghmeen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/freaghmeen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/freaghmeen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Freaghmeen 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) - Caherdague: https://everytownland.com/longford/caherdague.md - Coolamber: https://everytownland.com/longford/coolamber.md - Curry: https://everytownland.com/longford/curry-130409.md - Kilmore (Co. Westmeath): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/kilmore.md - Moatavally: https://everytownland.com/longford/moatavally.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/freaghmeen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/freaghmeen