Smithfield

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Smithfield, from 57 m² to 51,815 m² (5.18 ha, 12.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 45 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S6Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Other community services/facilities uses)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Community facilities)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Open space, park)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S1Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Education)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Sept 2026N/a

  the proposed change of use of part of existing retail space so as to provide a wine, beer & spirits off-licence at existing retail unit and all ancillary site works known as Mace Supermarket

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660291

• 11 Sept 2026N/a

  the proposed construction of an astro turf soccer pitch with boundary fencing and access gates as per accompanying drawings, inclusive of all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660287

• 15 Jul 2026Conditional

  proposed single storey extension to south east of existing school to provide 2 No Special Education Tuition Rooms and disabled staff WC (total floor area: 42.8sqm) and internal alterations including demolition and removal of existing staff WC to form new access corridor and all ancillary internal and external works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660229

• 28 Apr 2026Refused

  the proposed construction of two semi-detached type dwellings to be serviced with the existing entrance, demolition of two storage sheds with lowered boundary walls to accommodate vehicular sightlines. Connection to foul sewer, watermain, with surface water piped to soakpit with oil and fuel interceptor, car parking spaces as per site layout plan inclusive of all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Longford County Council, 2660139

• 7 Nov 2025Conditional

  the proposed construction of a new single storey extension located to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house as per submitted drawings inclusive of all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560258

• 12 Jan 2024Conditional

  the proposed construction of a detached residential garage to accommodate car storage and solid fuel storage for dwelling inclusive of all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460009

• 14 Sept 2022Conditional

  to erect an equipment storage shed, and all associated works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22215

• 12 May 2022Conditional

  proposed public viewing stand and all site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22108

• 26 Feb 2021Conditional

  proposed detached sports facility/storage building ancillary to main clubhouse and all site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2154

• 18 Nov 2020Conditional

  proposed construction of a single storey extension to existing storey and a half type dwelling house together with the relocation of existing vehicular entrance and the proposed construction of a front boundary wall/fence and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20281

• 5 Apr 2018Conditional

  (a) proposed new perimeter walkway, handrails and Low level Lighting around walkway, (b) proposed spectators stand & player dug-outs and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1869

• 8 Mar 2018Conditional

  alterations to previously granted planning 15/85 to existing public house which is 'a protected structure' to include as previously granted the demolition of single storey structure to rear to now include revisions to relevant elevations and proposed changes to new two storey extension to rear and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1846

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 Smithfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Smithfield.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1990 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having central windbreak to the front elevation (southwest). Substantially rebuilt c. 1995. Half-hipped thatched roof with ropework to ridge and with a rendered chimneystack. Painted rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Central square-headed door opening with timber panelled half-door. Timber piers with single leaf cast-iron gate. Set back from the road in own grounds with hedge to road frontage. Located to the northeast of Legan.

• Legan Bridge, bridge, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch road bridge over a tributary of the River Inny, built c. 1775. Coursed rubble limestone construction to spandrels and parapets. Three segmental-headed arches with rock-faced voussoirs to central arch and dressed limestone voussoirs to side arches. Full-height coursed rubble limestone V-cutwaters to southeast elevation. Limestone stiles to east and west ends of south wall. Located to the west of Legan.

• Handball alley, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Handball alley, c. 1920, having rendered mass concrete walls, open to the south end. Concrete playing area to the southeast. Set back from road to the west of Legan.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic church on cruciform-shaped plan, built c. 1835, having three-bay nave elevations, two-bay transepts to the northeast and southwest having gable-fronted entrance porches to the end bays, on southwest elevations and gable-fronted porch to southwest elevation of nave and chancel to the northeast. Single-bay single-storey lean-to extension to rear elevation of northwest transept (northeast) and three-bay single-storey sacristy/extension to the northeast side of the southeast transepts. Pitched natural slate roofs with wrought-iron cross finials to porches and transept gables and with rendered gabled bellcote to entrance gable/southwest end of nave having wrought-iron cross finial over. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Pointed arch lancet window openings with rendered surrounds and stained glass lattice windows. Three graded lancet openings to the chancel gable having painted brick dressings. Pointed arch door openings to porches with rendered surrounds having timber battened double doors and stained glass overlights. Timber A-frame roof to interior. Pointed chancel arch with Corinthian style pilasters. Gallery to nave gable having cusped/trefoil-headed detailing to solid parapet and supported on cast-iron column. Set back from road in own grounds to the centre of Legan. Bounded by rendered and exposed rubble stone boundary walls with wrought-iron gates. Main entrance gates to the southwest comprising ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan) with ornate carved caps and decorative wrought-iron gates having spear finials over. Spear-headed railings and side gate on ashlar limestone plinths terminating in second pair of piers.

• Bridge, 1780–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over a tributary of the River Inny, built c. 1830. Coursed roughly dressed limestone masonry walls with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs to the round-headed arch. Rounded cut limestone coping to the parapet walls. Located to the southeast of Legan.

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 Smithfield, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Smithfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Smithfield · Gort an Ghabhann

Area

426,447 m² (42.64 ha, 105.38 acres)

Civil parish

Kilglass, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Foxhall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

611 people lived in 236 households in the Foxhall electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardanragh, Clygeen, Foxhall, Legan, Treel

Placenames

Smithfield 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.