# Rabbitpark, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardagh, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford; in Irish Páirc na gCoiníní. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 908,126 m² (90.81 ha, 224.4 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,982 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardagh, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/ardagh.md - Barony: Ardagh - Electoral division: Ardagh West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 509 people lived in 173 households in the Ardagh West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33076 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130794 - Centre: latitude 53.687613, longitude -7.733833 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rabbitpark, from 492 m² to 129,374 m² (12.94 ha, 31.97 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 75623: 129,374 m² (12.94 ha, 31.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/75623.md - Parcel 63651: 101,045 m² (10.1 ha, 24.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63651.md - Parcel 59048: 98,056 m² (9.81 ha, 24.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59048.md - Parcel 59049: 82,993 m² (8.3 ha, 20.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59049.md - Parcel 75618: 64,635 m² (6.46 ha, 15.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/75618.md - Parcel 75625: 49,202 m² (4.92 ha, 12.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/75625.md - Parcel 76806: 47,287 m² (4.73 ha, 11.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76806.md - Parcel 79120: 46,428 m² (4.64 ha, 11.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79120.md - Parcel 75624: 46,304 m² (4.63 ha, 11.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/75624.md - Parcel 59050: 45,959 m² (4.6 ha, 11.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59050.md - Parcel 59055: 26,495 m² (2.65 ha, 6.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59055.md - Parcel 78656: 20,938 m² (2.09 ha, 5.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78656.md - Parcel 59047: 17,809 m² (1.78 ha, 4.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59047.md - Parcel 84923: 16,367 m² (1.64 ha, 4.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/84923.md - Parcel 75620: 15,987 m² (1.6 ha, 3.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/75620.md - Parcel 77610: 11,594 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/77610.md - Parcel 55648: 11,377 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55648.md - Parcel 74504: 10,519 m² (1.05 ha, 2.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74504.md - Parcel 59054: 7,716 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59054.md - Parcel 5395967: 5,566 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5395967.md - Parcel 81891: 4,399 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81891.md - Parcel 52966: 4,284 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52966.md - Parcel 66724: 4,242 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/66724.md - Parcel 5976306: 4,141 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5976306.md - Parcel 52202: 4,082 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52202.md - Parcel 76990: 3,909 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76990.md - Parcel 77134: 3,651 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/77134.md - Parcel 84629: 3,529 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/84629.md - Parcel 84925: 3,398 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/84925.md - Parcel 51918: 3,364 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/51918.md - Parcel 65352: 2,316 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/65352.md - Parcel 2523722: 2,224 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2523722.md - Parcel 55984: 1,879 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/55984.md - Parcel 72605: 1,852 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/72605.md - Parcel 59481: 1,175 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/59481.md - Parcel 78811: 1,001 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/78811.md - Parcel 59051: 561 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/59051.md - Parcel 59053: 514 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/59053.md - Parcel 59052: 507 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/59052.md - Parcel 75622: 492 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/75622.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rabbitpark 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 14 Aug 2026, Longford County Council 2660256: N/a. Permission, 1 home. the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660256/0 - 16 Dec 2025, Longford County Council 2560300: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. proposed two storey dwelling with detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560300/0 - 18 Apr 2019, Longford County Council 19106: Conditional. Permission. proposed construction of a storey and a half type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite sewerage system with percolation area and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/19106/0 - 13 Apr 2018, Longford County Council 1871: Conditional. Permission. for the following; (A) Proposed erection of a Roof Structure over existing open yard to the front of existing four bay Single Slatted Shed, (B) Proposed construction of a two bay Lean-to-extension to the rear of existing four bay Single Slatted Shed consisting of a Dry Bedded Area, (C) Proposed covered Race to the side of existing Four Bay Single Slatted Shed, (D) Proposed construction of an Un-roofed Manure Pit to the rear of existing Four Bay Single Slatted Shed, (E) Proposed construction of a silage base with associated Safety Barriers and Gates, (F) Proposed erection of Barriers, Gates & Walls and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/1871/0 - 31 Aug 2017, Longford County Council 17229: Conditional. Permission. construction of part single-storey, part two-storey dwelling house with detached garage, well, wastewater treatment system and associated site works, reinstatement of former access road, new entrance gates and boundary fence/wall, and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/17229/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derrymore Bog, site code 000447 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF019-010: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF019-010----. On a gentle W-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 27m) defined by a low scarp (H 0.5m) from S-W-NE. From NE-ENE, although levelled, the outline of the perimeter is still identifiable but from E-SE-S no visible surface traces survive. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded areas of outcropping rock within the interior at NW and E. 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) - Post box, 1930–1950, Regional interest, registry number 13401903, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13401903. Cast-iron wall-mounted post box, erected c. 1940, having 'P&T' (Department of Posts and Telegraphs) in Gaelic script cipher to head and 'W. T. Allen and Company of London' foundry mark to base. Set in roughly coursed limestone boundary wall outside Laughil National School (13401925), now derelict, and to the northeast of Ardagh. - Saint Brigid's National School, school, 1930–1940, Regional interest, registry number 13401925, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13401925. Detached six-bay single-storey former national school, built c. 1937, having gable-fronted two-bay single-storey projection to rear (north) having entrances to side elevations. Now disused. Pitched natural slate roofs with metal roof vent and cast-iron rainwater goods. Slightly projecting red brick chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west) partially supported on brick cobbled course. Smooth rendered walls with carved limestone name and date plaque to front façade (south). Square-headed window openings with remains of six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and rendered sills. Four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to north face of rear porch projection. Square-headed door openings to side elevations of rear porch having timber battened doors. Set back from road in own grounds to the northwest of Ardagh. Rubble and coursed limestone boundary wall with cement coping over to road-frontage (south) and rubble stone wall to the rear (north) dividing enclosed area into two separate yards. Main entrance gateway to the south comprising a pair of coursed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone coping over and a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Low rubble stone boundary walls to the west wend of boundary wall to road frontage having wrought-iron railings over. Cast-iron post box (13401903) built into boundary wall. ## 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 Rabbitpark, about 1 in 10 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 Rabbitpark. - 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/rabbitpark.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/rabbitpark.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/rabbitpark.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rabbitpark 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) - Aghintemple: https://everytownland.com/longford/aghintemple.md - Clooncaulfield: https://everytownland.com/longford/clooncaulfield.md - Drumlougher: https://everytownland.com/longford/drumlougher.md - Grillagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/grillagh-130570.md - Killinlastra: https://everytownland.com/longford/killinlastra.md - Laughil: https://everytownland.com/longford/laughil-130655.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. --- 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/rabbitpark - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/rabbitpark