School Land

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in School Land, from 535 m² to 157,637 m² (15.76 ha, 38.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• S1Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Education)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C1.1Light Industrial/Commercial/Servicing (Commercial, retail)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 May 2026Conditional

  to remove the existing front boundary wall servicing an existing dwelling house together with relocating same together with forming a vehicular entrance into the existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660155

• 15 Sept 2023Conditional

  erect a 24m high lattice tower together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed by security fencing and extending the existing access track

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360134

• 13 May 2022Conditional

  the proposed construction of an astro turf playing pitch together with perimeter fencing, erection of lighting poles with lighting and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22111

• 28 Oct 2021Conditional

  proposed storey and a half type dwelling, upgrade and formation of new entrance, new wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21311

• 7 Jul 2020Conditional

  for the erection of adequate lighting to service the existing carpark to the west side of the Thomas Ashe Hall and the astro turf pitch with play area which are situated to the rear of the school. In addition we also seek permission to install solar PV panels on the roof of the existing school with associated ancillary items for the provision of internal battery storage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20145

• 29 Jun 2020Conditional

  to install roof mounted 11Kw solar PV panels on the roof of existing Thomas Ashe Hall, with associated ancillary items for the provision of internal battery storage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20137

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 School Land.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of School Land.

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, erected c. 1900, comprising fluted shaft on moulded base, cast-iron shelf/platform to base and having fluted domed capping over. Finial and spout now missing. Now disused. Located adjacent to road to the east of Ballinalee.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

School Land · Fearann na Scoile

Area

390,420 m² (39.04 ha, 96.47 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbroney, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Ballinalee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinalee electoral division: 648 people in 253 households; 67% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinalee or Saintjohnstown, Clooncoose, Ederland, Leitrim

Placenames

School Land 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.