Molly

112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Molly, from 66 m² to 137,933 m² (13.79 ha, 34.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Molly 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 May 2026Conditional

  the End of Waste activities within the footprint of the existing site, where same activities include: 1) Acceptance, processing and recovery of in-coming inert waste material arising from construction and demolition activity, comprising concrete, bricks, soil or other such similar material, to become a certified product for reuse in construction related industries; 2) The maximum annual intake of incoming waste material shall not exceed of 24,500 tonnes; 3) The processing will include standard crushing and screening using the existing quarry plant; The site infrastructure for the proposed End of Waste activities will be limited to bays comprising storage and processing; 4) AII ancillary site development works. The proposed development seeking planning permission will require a 'Waste Facility Permit' for the acceptance and processing of the in-coming waste, which will be sought through a separate application to Longford County Council. The proposed development seeking planning permission will require registration with Environmental Protection Agency for End of Waste recovery under the National End-of Waste Decision EoW-N00l/2023 criteria

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660169

• 10 Jul 2025Conditional

  (a) demolition of a single storey Utility Room. (b) construction of a single storey extension to the rear of an existing house & a waste water treatment system & associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560146

• 12 Feb 2025Conditional

  proposed installation of wastewater treatment system and polishing filter to existing dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560024

• 8 May 2024Conditional

  to construct a single storey extension to an existing single storey dwelling to include internal and external alterations to the existing dwelling, new proposed entrance piers and wing walls, fencing and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460091

• 12 May 2021Conditional

  proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with percolation area & ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21136

• 4 Mar 2021Conditional

  proposed storey and a half extension to the side of the existing single storey dwelling house and associated ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2159

• 16 Oct 2019Conditional

  of PL14/165 for proposed filling in of an existing dis-used Quarry together with also raising the level of the adjacent lands to the north of the existing dis-used quarry so that they are level with the adjacent public road and all ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 19260

• 21 Jan 2019Conditional

  to the grant of Outline Planning Permission under Planning Reference Number PL18/13 for a proposed bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, septic tank & percolation area, all ancillary site works

  Permission consequent · Longford County Council, 1912

• 12 Jul 2018Refused

  construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached domestic garage, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18156

• 22 Mar 2018Refused

  construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached domestic garage, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1859

• 25 Jan 2018Conditional

  for a Four Bedroom Single Storey Dwelling House with a Detached Garage

  Outline permission · Longford County Council, 1813

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

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• LF006-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a steep E-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 33m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.5-6.5m; H 0.6-1m) with an external fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.2m), which is identifiable only from NNW-N. A break (Wth 5m) in the bank at SE may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Scoil Náisiúnta Naomh Muire, school, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay single-storey former school, dated 1884, having flat-roofed four-bay single-storey hall to centre of front elevation (northeast), and later gabled dormer windows to the north pitch of roof. Now in use as house. Pitched natural slate roof with two brick chimneystacks, pitched artificial slate roofs to dormers, with timber bargeboards. Painted rendered walls over rendered plinth with carved limestone plaque to flat-roofed extension reading ‘Scoil Muire Scoil Naisiúnta’. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, having sandstone sills. Square-headed openings with timber casement windows to dormers. Square-headed door openings to side elevations of flat-roofed projection (northwest and southeast sides), having half-glazed timber battened doors. Set back from road in elevated site to the northwest of Granard, close to rural crossroad junction. Rendered boundary walls, timber vehicular gate to entrance. Cut stone plaque to entrance reading ‘St. Mary’s National School 1884’ to boundary wall.

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 Molly, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Molly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Molly · An Mhala

Area

2,073,598 m² (207.36 ha, 512.4 acres)

Civil parish

Columbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Gelshagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

366 people lived in 125 households in the Gelshagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacordrinan, Aghakeeran, Aghakilmore, Gelshagh

Placenames

Molly 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.