Smear

227 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Smear, from 133 m² to 168,348 m² (16.83 ha, 41.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 51 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 Smear 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.

• 13 Apr 2026Conditional

  the proposed demolition of existing two storey dwelling house and the construction of a single storey dwelling, entrance, boundary fence/wall and connection to proposed onsite sewerage treatment system with polishing filter which was granted full planning permission under planning reference no. PL25/60026 and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660119

• 10 Dec 2025Conditional

  the construction of a single-storey dwelling house, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable on-site wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, and all associated ancillary site works. The Significant Further Information/Revised Plans now propose amendments to the design of the dwelling, while maintaining it as a single-storey bungalow, together with the relocation of the site entrance to provide access from the public road in lieu of the previously proposed access from the adjacent private laneway, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560293

• 20 Nov 2025Conditional

  the proposed construction of storage shed and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2555

• 14 Feb 2025Conditional

  the proposed demolition of existing first floor servicing existing two storey type dwelling house together with the proposed construction of a single storey extension to the rear of same along with the installation of a suitable on-site treatment system with a polishing filter, entrance, boundary fence/wall and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560026

• 11 Sept 2024N/a

  proposed construction of a dormer extension to the rear of an existing dormer bungalow type dwelling house & internal renovation to same, proposed detached garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460200

• 30 Jan 2024Conditional

  the construction of a single storey granny annex to the side of an existing house and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460020

• 26 Jun 2023Conditional

  the proposed construction of a single storey bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/walls, suitable sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360073

• 23 Nov 2022Conditional

  permission is sought for a single storey store extension to the rear of the existing property and a single storey shed structure located in the side yard and full permission is sought for a new septic tank and a percolation system to the rear of the property

  Retention · Longford County Council, 22270

• 13 May 2022Conditional

  a granny annex consisting of a storey and a half extension to the side of an existing bungalow, internal and external alterations to existing bungalow and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22114

• 28 Apr 2022Conditional

  bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2296

• 9 Apr 2021Conditional

  construction of a two storey 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, 2196

• 10 Mar 2020Conditional

  proposed construction of a four bay double slatted shed with underground effluent storage tank and all ancillary works COVID 19

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2056

• 18 Sept 2019Conditional

  proposed construction of a single storey extension to the side of existing dormer type dwelling house that was previously granted full Planning Permission under Planning Reference Number PL07/1224 and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19236

• 26 Jul 2017Conditional

  the construction of a canopy structure to the existing front forecourt with new signage and associated site drainage and boundary works on behalf of Walsh's Costcutter/Dolores Walsh,

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17202

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 Smear.

Recorded monuments

• LF003-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a steep NE-facing slope in pasture. Not indicated on the 1837 or 1887 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Remains comprise a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.7m; H 0.8m) with a wide, deep, flat-bottomed, external fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 1.1m) extending in an arc from N-E-SE. The fosse has been partially recut and incorporated into the field-drainage system. The rest of the monument has been levelled. The interior is occupied by a dwelling-house and garden. A NW-SE field boundary and a NE-SW laneway run through it. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 18 January 2012

Architectural heritage

• House, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1921 and possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier house, having a projecting gable-fronted porch to the front elevation (east) and with two-storey extension to rear (west), built c. 1950. Hipped natural slate roof with rendered chimneystack, offset to the north of the centre of the roof. Painted roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered eaves course and plinth. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with painted concrete sills. Square-headed doorway to front face of porch having timber battened door with overlight. Set in own grounds with twentieth-century outbuildings to yard to north side of house. Set back from road to the south of the village of Moyne. Painted rendered boundary walls with square-profile piers and wrought-iron pedestrian gate to road-frontage. Single-storey outbuildings to the north and wrought-iron double gates to the north of site.

• Post box, 1930–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected between 1924 - 46, with raised 'P&T' monogram in Gaelic script to head and foundry mark to base. Set into rendered pier adjacent to rendered wall. Located along road in the rural landscape the south of Moyne, adjacent to road junction. House adjacent to the north.

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 Smear, about 1 in 20 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 Smear.

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.

• Smear, Aughnacliffe7 sales

Name

Smear · Sméar

Area

4,335,769 m² (433.58 ha, 1,071.39 acres)

Civil parish

Columbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Columbkille, the unit of the census

Census 2022

585 people lived in 223 households in the Columbkille electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore Lower, Annaghdaniel, Carrickmaguirk, Cleenrah, Cornadrung, Crott, Mollyglass, Polladooey, Rosduff

Placenames

Smear 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.