# Legan, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilglass, barony of Shrule, Co. Longford; in Irish An Liagán.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,125,873 m² (112.59 ha, 278.21 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,930 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilglass, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/kilglass.md
- Barony: Shrule
- Electoral division: Agharra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 480 people lived in 173 households in the Agharra electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32513
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130663
- Centre: latitude 53.621838, longitude -7.645234 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legan, from 1,669 m² to 218,345 m² (21.83 ha, 53.95 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 79981: 218,345 m² (21.83 ha, 53.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79981.md
- Parcel 79988: 168,233 m² (16.82 ha, 41.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79988.md
- Parcel 79980: 135,175 m² (13.52 ha, 33.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79980.md
- Parcel 54171: 123,079 m² (12.31 ha, 30.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54171.md
- Parcel 76136: 116,988 m² (11.7 ha, 28.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76136.md
- Parcel 64501: 105,338 m² (10.53 ha, 26.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/64501.md
- Parcel 60175: 83,953 m² (8.4 ha, 20.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60175.md
- Parcel 54170: 72,818 m² (7.28 ha, 17.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54170.md
- Parcel 54173: 66,261 m² (6.63 ha, 16.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54173.md
- Parcel 54172: 8,590 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54172.md
- Parcel 2997556: 3,930 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2997556.md
- Parcel 3989675: 3,451 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3989675.md
- Parcel 67582: 2,656 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/67582.md
- Parcel 71950: 2,342 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71950.md
- Parcel 67870: 2,306 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/67870.md
- Parcel 53348: 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53348.md
- Parcel 52574: 2,149 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52574.md
- Parcel 2504070: 1,989 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2504070.md
- Parcel 2504065: 1,972 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2504065.md
- Parcel 71106: 1,859 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/71106.md
- Parcel 81118: 1,669 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/81118.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Legan 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)

1 application, newest first.

- 28 Aug 2020, Longford County Council 20190: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a two-storey type detached dwelling, proprietary treatment system, percolation area, connection to watermain and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/20190/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Legan.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LF023-038: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-038----. On a gentle E-facing slope in pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. The original entrance was at S. The rath has since been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF023-039: Chapel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-039----. In rough pasture, at the foot of a rocky outcrop. Depicted as a rectangular building, orientated E-W, with the designation 'Chapel' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace survives. The outline of the chapel site has been demarcated by rows of beech trees set so as to form a bower that conforms to the shape of a building. An altar and wooden benchs have been placed in the interior. A holy well (LF023-040----) and a bullaun stone (LF023-041----) lie c. 10m to the SE and c. 45m to the SW respectively. An inscribed stone plaque built into the enclosing wall of the well reads: 'Pray for John Ferrall of / Ardenragh Esq. Consort / and family who erected this monument and left / the ground where of ye Chapple and Well / stands in Honr. of the / Blessed Virgin Mary / Ano Domi 1730'. The date of the chapel is unknown but the stone plaque suggests that it may have been built in the 18th century. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 07 June 2013
- LF023-040: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-040----. Within an extensive area of outcropping rock. This natural spring is enclosed by a low wall on the W, N and E sides, an opening in the NW corner allows access. The S wall is more substantial (L 2m; H 1.5m; T 0.65m) and contains an inscribed stone plaque. On the upper half of the plaque is a carving in false relief of the Virgin and Child with an IHS monogram carved in the top right-hand corner. The lower half bears the following inscription: 'Pray for John Ferrall of / Ardenragh Esq. Consort / and family who erected this monument and left / the ground where of ye Chapple and Well / stands in Honr. of the / Blessed Virgin Mary / Ano Domi 1730'. A whitethorn bush (LF023-040001-) grows beside the well at the E and both the well and bush are adorned with religious memorabilia. The site of a chapel (LF023-039----) and a bullaun (LF023-041----) lie c. 10m to the NW and c. 44m to the SW respectively. (English 1971, 147) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 07 June 2013
- LF023-041: Bullaun stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-041----. In an area of outcropping rock. The bullaun has been carved into an exposed section of bedrock that forms part of a NW-SE roadside fence. The bullaun (diam. 0.3m; D 0.14m) undoubtedly is an enhancement of a pre-existing depression in the limestone caused by natural weathering. There is a holy well (LF023-040----) c. 44m to the NE. (English 1971, 147) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 07 June 2013
- LF023-042: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-042----. On a gentle E-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a scarp (H 0.7-1m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.1-0.6m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) suggested that the original entrance may have been at E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF023-072: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-072----. On a gentle S-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 47m) defined by a scarp (H 0.1-0.8m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a shallow external fosse, which has since been infilled. A NW-SE field boundary skirts the rath from SW-W-WNW. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Legan, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Legan.
- 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/legan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/legan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/legan.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Legan 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)

- Ardanragh: https://everytownland.com/longford/ardanragh.md
- Kilglass and Cloonagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/kilglass-and-cloonagh.md
- Lisaquill: https://everytownland.com/longford/lisaquill.md
- Smithfield: https://everytownland.com/longford/smithfield.md
- Treel: https://everytownland.com/longford/treel-130873.md
- Tully: https://everytownland.com/longford/tully-130879.md
- Vicarstown: https://everytownland.com/longford/vicarstown.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.

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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/legan
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/legan