# Shrule, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Shrule, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford; in Irish Sruthail. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 220,319 m² (22.03 ha, 54.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,413 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Shrule, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/shrule.md - Barony: Rathcline - Electoral division: Ballymahon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,970 people lived in 1,076 households in the Ballymahon electoral division. 52% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32530 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130827 - Centre: latitude 53.553465, longitude -7.799978 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shrule, from 1,952 m² to 146,916 m² (14.69 ha, 36.3 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 55945: 146,916 m² (14.69 ha, 36.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55945.md - Parcel 51849: 18,761 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/51849.md - Parcel 60527: 17,274 m² (1.73 ha, 4.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60527.md - Parcel 76156: 7,323 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76156.md - Parcel 57788: 5,502 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57788.md - Parcel 70087: 2,193 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70087.md - Parcel 63431: 2,090 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63431.md - Parcel 62010: 1,952 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/62010.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Shrule in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Shrule. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shrule. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Shrule Mills, house, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 13402611, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13402611. 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, registry number 13402613, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13402613. 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). ## 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 Shrule, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1719, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1719.zip (ZIP). - 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/shrule.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/shrule.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/shrule.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Shrule 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) - Barnacor: https://everytownland.com/longford/barnacor-130141.md - Daroge: https://everytownland.com/longford/daroge.md - Drumnacor: https://everytownland.com/longford/drumnacor.md - Garrynagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/garrynagh.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/longford/glebe-130540.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/shrule - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/shrule