Keelbaun
Townland in the civil parish of Noughaval, barony of Shrule, Co. Longford; in Irish An Caol Bán
- Area
- 27.8 ha
- 69 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 4,019 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keelbaun, from 514 m² to 88,117 m² (8.81 ha, 21.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Keelbaun 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Aug 2022Conditional
(1.) retention for existing rear extension, (2.) permission for elevational modifications to existing dwelling, (3.) alterations to existing rear roof, (4.) new 2 storey rear extension, (5.) decommission existing septic tank & install new proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, (6.)new soakaway and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 22186
20 Jan 2021Conditional
existing dormer garage type structure as constructed and which is currently been used as habitable accommodation and all ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2110
14 Oct 2020Refused
of existing dormer garage type structure as constructed and which is currently been used as habitable accommodation and all ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20234
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Keelbaun.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Keelbaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Keelbaun.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1755 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Keelbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Keelbaun · An Caol Bán
- Area
- 277,773 m² (27.78 ha, 68.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Noughaval, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shrule
- Electoral division
- Forgney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Forgney electoral division: 3,066 people in 189 households; 91% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clooncullen, Creevagh Beg, Creevagh More, Keel
- Placenames
- Keelbaun 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.