Kilmacannon

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmacannon, from 440 m² to 185,739 m² (18.57 ha, 45.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Kilmacannon 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 Feb 2026Conditional

  the construction of proposed extensions to north, south and east elevations together with amendments to fenestration of the existing west elevation on the existing bungalow type dwelling house. The proposed extensions include: 1. single storey extension to south elevation; 2. single storey to east elevation; 3. single storey garage & utility extension to north elevation. The proposed amendments to fenestration include: 1. the relocation of front door to the west elevation of the dwelling; 2. installation of new window to existing front door ope to south elevation of projection ; 3. installation of new window to north elevation of projection; 4. enlarging of sitting room window on west elevation of projection together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2613

• 12 Oct 2023Conditional

  and completion of existing partial constructed entrance and also the retention of the existing rear and lateral boundaries and all ancillary works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2360164

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Rinn River NHA 000691

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilmacannon.

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, erected c. 1900, comprising fluted shaft on molded base with moulded spout, and with fluted capping having acorn finial over. Pull lever to side. Now disused. Inscription 'Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd, Kilmarnock' to shaft. Located on grass verge, adjacent to road junction along N4, to the north of Newtown-Forbes

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

At the centre of the townland of Kilmacannon, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilmacannon.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kilmacannon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Kilmacannon · Coill Mhic Canann

Area

1,125,858 m² (112.59 ha, 278.21 acres)

Civil parish

Clongesh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Newtown Forbes, the unit of the census

Census 2022

985 people lived in 411 households in the Newtown Forbes electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagh, Clooniher, Currygranny, Deerpark, Lissagernal

Placenames

Kilmacannon 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.