Larkfield
Larkfield is a townland in the civil parish of Columbkille, barony of Granard, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Cluain Fhuiseog.
- Area
- 287.9 ha
- 711 acres
- Land parcels
- 95
- registered freehold, median 6,944 m² (0.69 ha, 1.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Larkfield, from 25 m² to 444,727 m² (44.47 ha, 109.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Larkfield 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
29 Jul 2025Conditional
to construct a two storey dwelling house, detached garage for domestic use, sewage treatment plant and percolation area and attached ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560158
13 Jul 2023Conditional
proposed construction of a storey and a half extension to an existing bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2360084
24 Aug 2022Conditional
to construct a two storey dwelling house with an attached sun room and a detached garage for domestic use only, sewage treatment plant and percolation area and attached ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 22198
16 Mar 2022Conditional
to construct a four bay engineering workshop, erect new entrance walls and piers and all associated site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2262
11 Dec 2020Conditional
construct a six bay slatted shed with slurry holding tank underneath and all associated site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 20304
23 Oct 2020Conditional
construction of an extension to the rear of an existing agricultural building. This extension will comprise of a four bay single slatted shed with underground effluent storage tank with creep area and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 20241
12 Aug 2020Refused
the proposed construction of a four bay single slatted shed with underground effluent storage tank with creep area and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 20181
29 Jan 2019Conditional
construct a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage for domestic use, proprietary waste water treatment system with percolation area and attached ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 1917
11 Sept 2018Conditional
to erect a walled silage pit, concrete apron and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 18194
26 Jan 2017Conditional
Demolition of existing projection to the rear of existing public house together with seeking full planning permission for the proposed construction of a single storey extension to incorporate a Disabled Persons W.C., ladies toilets and storage area and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 1725
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gowna 000992
Recorded monuments
- LF006-011 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the NW end of a high, prominent, NW-SE drumlin ridge. A raised circular area (diam. c. 48m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.9m; H 1.1m) with a narrow external fosse (Wth 1.2m; D 0.75m). The original entrance is not recognisable. The rath is very densely overgrown with scrub rendering satisfactory inspection impossible. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF006-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
National Monument No. 640. Straddling the top and the upper E-facing slope of a drumlin. A raised oval area (c. 38m ENE-WSW; 35.5m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a substantial, although partially eroded, bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.8-9m; H 0.9-1.9m) with a wide, deep, waterlogged external fosse (Wth 5.9-7m; D 0.2-1.65m). A report in 1985 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance may have been at E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF006-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low drumlin rise. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised subcircular area (35m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.4-3.8m; H 0.3-0.9m). Drystone masonry has been applied to the outer face of the bank from SSW-N-E. Elsewhere it has been destroyed due to the construction of now-disused farm buildings. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. Deciduous trees growing on the bank suggest that the rath was modified and reused as a tree-ring. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF006-037 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 30m) delimited by a poorly defined scarp (H 0.5-1m). There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF006-038 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a SE-facing slope in rough pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 39.8m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth c. 4m; H 0.2-0.5m) from WNW-NW and from NNE-E-ESE. At the base of the bank is a largely infilled fosse (Wth 3.1m; D 0.3m). From SE-S-W the circuit and morphology of the perimeter has been altered where it has been incorporated into a NW-SE field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable. The rath is densely overgrown with scrub. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Larkfield.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Larkfield, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Larkfield.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Larkfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Larkfield · Cluain Fhuiseog
- Area
- 2,878,665 m² (287.87 ha, 711.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Columbkille, and its townlands
- Barony
- Granard
- Electoral division
- Mullanalaghta, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 320 people lived in 109 households in the Mullanalaghta electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghanoran, Cloonagh, Derrycassan, Mullinroe
- Placenames
- Larkfield 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.