# Island, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommock, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford; in Irish An tOileán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 822,479 m² (82.25 ha, 203.24 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,105 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcommock, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/kilcommock.md - Barony: Rathcline - Electoral division: Kilcommock, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,161 people lived in 410 households in the Kilcommock electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32714 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130577 - Centre: latitude 53.61617, longitude -7.827895 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Island, from 5 m² to 126,024 m² (12.6 ha, 31.14 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 70392: 126,024 m² (12.6 ha, 31.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70392.md - Parcel 58731: 121,902 m² (12.19 ha, 30.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58731.md - Parcel 4695104: 81,408 m² (8.14 ha, 20.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4695104.md - Parcel 76038: 79,350 m² (7.93 ha, 19.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76038.md - Parcel 4726062: 75,678 m² (7.57 ha, 18.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4726062.md - Parcel 4986343: 56,006 m² (5.6 ha, 13.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4986343.md - Parcel 53788: 21,533 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53788.md - Parcel 56779: 19,902 m² (1.99 ha, 4.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56779.md - Parcel 5040197: 18,062 m² (1.81 ha, 4.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5040197.md - Parcel 66403: 17,247 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/66403.md - Parcel 58732: 10,775 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58732.md - Parcel 56560: 7,629 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56560.md - Parcel 76835: 6,670 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76835.md - Parcel 78905: 6,599 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78905.md - Parcel 76039: 5,851 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76039.md - Parcel 80367: 5,759 m² (0.58 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80367.md - Parcel 4702904: 5,733 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4702904.md - Parcel 55133: 5,186 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55133.md - Parcel 56812: 4,858 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56812.md - Parcel 78039: 4,401 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78039.md - Parcel 79708: 4,023 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79708.md - Parcel 77000: 3,851 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/77000.md - Parcel 56614: 3,829 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56614.md - Parcel 56296: 3,739 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56296.md - Parcel 54884: 3,106 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54884.md - Parcel 78391: 3,105 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78391.md - Parcel 78443: 2,998 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78443.md - Parcel 80197: 2,652 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80197.md - Parcel 68286: 2,598 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/68286.md - Parcel 4702684: 2,013 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4702684.md - Parcel 81846: 1,994 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/81846.md - Parcel 4702872: 1,500 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4702872.md - Parcel 4702682: 1,483 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4702682.md - Parcel 4702880: 1,443 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4702880.md - Parcel 57146: 1,424 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/57146.md - Parcel 56534: 1,108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/56534.md - Parcel 51950: 1,090 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/51950.md - Parcel 4726057: 1,087 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4726057.md - Parcel 78052: 1,042 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/78052.md - Parcel 51762: 959 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/51762.md - Parcel 58155: 897 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/58155.md - Parcel 77368: 859 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/77368.md - Parcel 4702899: 830 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4702899.md - Parcel 74022: 764 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/74022.md - Parcel 5453074: 724 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5453074.md - Parcel 5365655: 459 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5365655.md - Parcel 79183: 308 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/79183.md - Parcel 5365666: 257 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5365666.md - Parcel 4702896: 12 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4702896.md - Parcel 4702891: 7 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4702891.md - Parcel 5453075: 5 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5453075.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Island 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 20 Mar 2026, Longford County Council 2660089: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. the proposed construction of a bungalow-type dwelling with proposed vehicular entrance, detached residential garage, proprietary sewage treatment system and percolation area, inclusive of all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660089/0 - 14 May 2025, Longford County Council 2560093: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. new dormer type dwelling with detached garage, formation of new site levels and entrance, wastewater treatments system, polishing filter and all ancillary site works where it is now sought for permission to amend roof profile and elevations. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560093/0 - 13 Feb 2025, Longford County Council 2560025: Refused. Permission, 1 home. new dormer type dwelling with detached garage, formation of new site levels and entrance, wastewater treatments system, polishing filter and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560025/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal, site code 002103 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Island. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Mosstown Harbour, harbour/dock/port, 1810–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13313021, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13313021. Harbour on the Royal Canal, built c. 1817, canal now closed. Dressed limestone walls with cut limestone coping over to the east bank of harbour. Former concrete road bridge over Royal Canal to site, built c. 1950 replacing earlier canal bridge c. 1817, now disused. Single ashlar limestone terminating pier from original bridge to the northeast corner, set in rendered cut limestone wall. Located to the west of Keenagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Island, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Island. - 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/island.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/island.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/island.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Island 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) - Cloonbreany: https://everytownland.com/longford/cloonbreany.md - Keenagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/keenagh.md - Laughil: https://everytownland.com/longford/laughil-130656.md - Mosstown: https://everytownland.com/longford/mosstown-130756.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/island - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/island