Shrule

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shrule, from 1,952 m² to 146,916 m² (14.69 ha, 36.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Shrule 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Shrule in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Shrule.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shrule.

Architectural heritage

• Shrule Mills, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over raised basement house, built c. 1860, possibly formerly in use as a miller’s house associated with Shrule Mills (13402612) adjacent to the east. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west) having terracotta chimney pots. Some remaining cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone string course between basement and first floor level. Square-headed openings with margin timber sliding sash windows to ground floor and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to basement level, all with limestone sills. Round-headed window to rear, lighting stairwell, having spoked fanlight over margin timber sash sliding windows. Central round-headed opening to front elevation (south) with spoked fanlight and timber panelled door. Flight of limestone steps to entrance having rendered walls with limestone coping over. Set back from road in own grounds to the southwest of Ballymahon, located on island on the River Inny and adjacent to the northwest of former corn mill and flour mill (13402612). Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge to rear having hipped natural slate roof with cut stone eaves course and central rendered chimneystack. Coursed rubble limestone masonry walls with flush roughly dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with replacement casement windows having brick block-and-start surrounds and limestone sills. Central square-headed door opening to front elevation (south) with timber battened door, cut limestone step and with glazed overlight. Gateway to the south, serving front elevation of house, comprising a pair of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having shallow pyramidal capstones and a pair of hooped wrought-iron gates with cast-iron finials. Gateway to the west/northwest, serving rear of house, having a pair of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having shallow pyramidal capstones and a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates with curving support bars. Coursed rubble stone boundary walls to road-frontage to the southwest, and to rear of site. Pedestrian gateway to the north of house comprising a pair of dressed ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gate.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1860–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of five field gateways, erected c. 1880, each comprising a pair of dressed ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having carved pyramidal capstones over, and a pair of wrought-iron flat-bar gates with curved wrought-iron support bars and wrought-iron latch. Piers set diagonally. Sections of rubble stone walling adjacent to a number of the gateways. Located to either side of small rural road to the southwest of Ballymahon, and a short distance to the west of Shrule Mills (13402612).

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 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1719 (ZIP).

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

Name

Shrule · Sruthail

Area

220,319 m² (22.03 ha, 54.44 acres)

Civil parish

Shrule, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Ballymahon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymahon electoral division: 2,970 people in 1,076 households; 52% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnacor, Daroge, Drumnacor, Garrynagh, Glebe

Placenames

Shrule 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.