Gallid

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gallid, from 99 m² to 195,647 m² (19.56 ha, 48.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Gallid 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.

• 26 Jun 2025Conditional

  the following; (A) existing single storey extension to the side of existing two storey type dwelling house and (B) existing single storey detached domestic garage which services the existing dwelling house. In addition, Full Planning Permission is being sought for the proposed construction of a single-story extension to the rear and side of the existing two storey type dwelling house, internal renovations and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560133

• 10 Dec 2024Conditional

  domestic storage/shed to the rear of existing garage with amendments to relevant elevations on exiting garage and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2460294

• 31 Jan 2020Conditional

  construction of a 5 bay slatted shed with creep area, crush facilities and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2018

• 16 Nov 2017Conditional

  for proposed storey and a half type dwelling house, detached garage, formation of new entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17289

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 Gallid.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-021001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a shelf on an E-facing slope. A raised almost circular area (29m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed from W-NW-N and from SSE-S-SW by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4-6.1m; H 0.45-0.9m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.4-1m). At the base of the bank at S there is a shallow fosse (Wth 3.8m; D 0.4m). The original entrance is not recognisable. A possible house site (LF010-021002-) lies within the NE quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 11 January 2012

• LF010-021002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the NE quadrant of a rath (LF010-021001-) is a possible house site (5.3m x 5.3m) defined by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.5-1.8m; H 0.2-0.3m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF010-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a shelf of level ground on a S-facing slope; the ground level falls away steeply to the W. A raised circular area (diam. 36m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 3-5.5m; H 0.55-1.55m) with an external fosse (Wth 6.8m; D 0.4-1.4m), which is identifiable only at N. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF010-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight knoll in otherwise low-lying pasture. A raised subcircular area (37.4m N-S; 34.3m E-W) enclosed at NNW, from NE-ENE-E, at SE and at W by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 5-6.4m; H 0.3-0.8m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.3-1.9m), with a wide intervening fosse (Wth 7.5-10m; D 0.7-0.8m) from NE-E-NW and an outer bank (Wth 3.8m; H 0.65m) from SW-W-NW. A break (Wth c. 5m) in the bank at E marks the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 11 January 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gallid.

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Gallid.

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

Name

Gallid · Gallaid

Area

1,021,747 m² (102.17 ha, 252.48 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Granard Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Granard Rural electoral division: 307 people in 102 households; 88% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinulty Upper, Ballygilchrist, Balnagall, Clogh, Rathbrackan, Rathcor, Tromra

Placenames

Gallid 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.