Taghshinny

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Taghshinny, from 23 m² to 198,190 m² (19.82 ha, 48.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Taghshinny 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.

• 19 Feb 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new Agricultural entrance onto my lands, and all associated works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 256

• 29 Mar 2023Conditional

  the change of use of an existing domestic garage, previously granted planning permission under planning reference PL07/204, to a granny annex to include internal and external alterations and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2362

• 23 Jun 2020N/a

  1) mobile home type dwelling, 2) to upgrade existing septic tank and percolation area, which currently services the adjacent family home 3) connection for the proposed mobile home into upgraded septic tank 4) use the existing entrance as access to the proposed mobile home, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20133

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• LF023-097 Church
  Description

  In level pasture c. 10m to the W of a stream, within a graveyard (LF023-097001-) on the N side of Taghshinny village. There are references in the annals to a church here in the 1220s, possibly associated with the monastery on Inchcleraun in Lough Ree (see LF021-48----) (ALC, vol. 1; Corlett 1998, 115-18). In 1475 Thomas Macmurhyrtay was the priest of the parish church (Cal. papal letters 1955, vol. 13, 444). In 1542 the rectory was leased to Walter Tirrell of Dublin (Nicholls 1994, vol. 1, 38) and in 1620 James McConnell Farrall received a land grant, which included the condition that he held an annual fair at Taghshinny ‘on 29 June, the feast of St Peter the apostle' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 481). The church is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Shrule barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.26). No visible surface trace of it survives. The 18th-century church (C of I) in the centre of the graveyard may have been built on close to its site. An architectural fragment found in rubble close to the N wall of the graveyard and a fragment of a tracery window (Wth 0.21m; T 0.12m) with a glazing groove, also noted against the wall, may be associated with the medieval church. The architectural fragment consists of a subrectangular block (0.44m x 0.44m; T 0.09m) with a rosette decoration, in false relief, in each of the four corners. The two lower rosettes are lightly incised suggesting that they may have been unfinished. Centrally located is an openwork triskele surrounded by a circular band of rope-moulding, also in false relief. This may be the air vent of a garderobe and is possibly an indicator of the former presence of domestic quarters or a residential tower associated with the church. A cross-slab (LF023-097003), fragments of a cross-slab (LF023-097004-) and two 17th-century graveslabs (LF023-097006-, LF023-097007-) were noted in the graveyard. The 18th-century church may incorporate fabric of an earlier 17th-century church that was built by the Annelly family of Tennalick (Anon. 1898, vol. 4 no. 1, 265). There is another 17th-century graveslab (LF023-097005-) within it. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF023-097001 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with a medieval church (LF023-097001-). This oval-shaped graveyard (dims. 65m NE-SW; 45m NW-SE) is defined by a stone wall. Access is via a wrought-iron gate with an adjacent stile at SW. Memorials date to the 18th and 19th centuries. Centrally located within the interior is an 18th-century church (C of I), which may have been built on or close to the site of the earlier medieval church. Within this church is a 17th-century graveslab (LF023-097005-). A cross-slab (LF023-097003), fragments of a cross-slab (LF023-097002-) and two 17th-century graveslabs (LF023-097003, LF023-097004-) were noted in the graveyard. (ITA Survey 1944; Lennon 2005) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF023-097002 Ecclesiastical site
  Description

  In level pasture c. 10m to the W of a stream, church (LF023-097----) and graveyard (LF023-097001-) on the N side of Taghshinny (Teach Sinche / House of Sineach) village was probably built on the site of an early Christian monastery founded by St. Sineach. There are references in the annals to a church here in the 1220s, possibly associated with the monastery on Inchcleraun in Lough Ree (LF021-48----) (ALC, vol. 1; Corlett 1998, 115-18). There is a Saint Sineach of Inis-Clothrann whose feastday was April 20th and who may be the founder of the monastery at Taghshinny. According to Ó Riain (2011, 563) the name Sineach is probably; 'derived from sean, old, this name, also written as Sinche, was popular enough to be included in the list of homonymous saints, which contains twelve (otherwise mainly unattested) representatives of the cult'. Ó Riain (2011, 267) has suggested that this monastery was associated with 'Díona daughter of the king of the Saxons. This person is known only from the tract on the mothers of the saints which attributes to her the motherhood of the sons of Brachan, king of the Britons, and eponym of Brycheiniog in south Wales. She may also have been adopted by the Síol Maine of Longford/Westmeath who numbered among their four cailleacha, 'nuns', a certain Díne daughter of Bracán, the other three being Forbhaise daughter of Aodh. Lasair daughter of Rónán, and Sineach of the Longford church of Taghshinny'. The 18th-century C. of I. church in the centre of the graveyard may have been built on or close to the site of the medieval church. An early Christian cross-slab (LF023-097003) stands in the E quadrant of the graveyard and fragments of a second early Christian cross-slab (LF023-097004-) were removed in 1999 from the graveyard by the National Museum of Ireland for safe keeping in Kildare Street. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 May 2023

• LF023-097003 Cross-slab
  Description

  Within a graveyard (LF023-097002-), close to the SE angle of the 18th-century church. One of two cross-slabs (see also LF023-97004-). This roughly rectangular cross-slab (exposed H 0.7m; Wth 0.72m; T 0.11m) is aligned N-S. On its E face is a decorated Latin cross with expanded D-shaped terminals. At the intersection of the stem and arm is another very small incised cross within a circle. To see a 3D model of the cross-slab visit https://skfb.ly/oHrp7 Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 June 2013

• LF023-097004 Cross-slab
  Description

  Within Taghshinny graveyard (LF023-097002-), in rubble close to the N wall. One of two cross-slabs (see also LF023-97003-.) It comprises two fragments which form the basal end of a cross-slab (dims. H 0.41m; Wth 0.31m; T 0.07m). On one face part of the stem and one complete arm of a cross, with a D-shaped terminal, is visible. At the intersection of the stem and arm is a small incised cross with D-shaped terminals within a circle. Fragments of an inscription, running parallel to the right-hand side of the stem, read AELM..A..RE, from top to bottom. Corlett (1998, 115-18) has speculated that 'the usual prefix OR [OIT] DO (a prayer for) was presumably on the left side and that the dedication was to [M]AEL MÁ[I]RE' (Ibid. 2001, 41). In 1999 the cross-slab was removed from Taghshinny graveyard by the National Museum of Ireland for safe keeping in Kildare Street (NMI Reg. No. 1999:59). Cross-reference with DU018-470---- Compiled and revised by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 22 May 2023

• LF023-097005 Graveslab
  Description

  Within the interior of an 18th-century church (C of I) that may incorporate the fabric of an earlier 17th-century church, which was built by the Annelly family of Tennalick (Anon. 1898, vol. 4 no. 1, 265). The church may have built on the site of a medieval church (LF023-097----). This 17th-century graveslab was described in 1848 by James Lyster, the rector of the parish, as 'an old tombstone in the aisle of the church to Mr. Pierce Petit, who was murdered by 'Robt. Sands'-16 (shot, I understand, in a duel). The name is chizzled out, which was done, I understand, by an old clerk named Ayres, about forty years ago' (ibid.). Later in 1891 the full inscription was recorded as 'HER LYETH THE BODY OF | PIERCE PETTIT WHO WAS MURDERED | BY ROBERT SAMS YE 1ST OF AUGUST | 1684 AND LIKEWISE THE BODY OF …' (Anon. 1893, 445). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF023-097006 Graveslab
  Description

  In the NE quadrant of a graveyard (LF023-097001-), in a pile of rubble against the wall. This fragment of a possible 17th-century graveslab (L 0.6m; Wth 0.33m; T 0.08m) is inscribed and decorated in false relief. The inscription, in Latin, is only partially legible and reads: '…is kinapres …/…fieri fecit../…e suos…/..es:cu..'. Above it a figure is depicted standing on a pedestal. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF023-097007 Graveslab
  Description

  In the NE quadrant of a graveyard (LF023-097001-), in a pile of rubble against the wall. This fragment of a possible 17th-century graveslab (L 0.53m; Wth 0.25m; T 0.08m) is inscribed and decorated in false relief. The partial inscription, in Latin, reads 'Bernard…/Biter Me.’ Traces of a fleur-de-lye and the monogram INRI are visible above it. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached corner-sited three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1860, having single-storey outbuildings abutting to both gable ends (northeast and west). Pitched natural slate roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends (northeast and southwest), a central pair of rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots over, and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course; smooth rendered strips to corners of front elevation. Square-headed window openings with painted tooled limestone sills and smooth rendered reveals; openings now blocked with sheet metal fittings. Central segmental-headed door opening to main elevation (southwest) with timber panelled door, tooled limestone plinth blocks, teardrop fanlight over, and having flanking sidelights with diamond and circle tracery/motifs. Single-storey outbuildings to either side having corrugated-metal roofs, pebbledashed walls and square-headed window and door openings. Roof to outbuilding to the northeast now collapsing; chamfered corner to the southwest corner of outbuilding to the west. Rubble stone boundary wall to west end of outbuilding to the west, rendered boundary wall to the northeast end of outbuilding to the northeast. Set slightly back from road, at an angle to the road alignment, directly onto village green in the centre of Taghshinny.

• Taghshinny Church, church/chapel, graveyard/cemetery, 1700–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single cell four-bay nave Church of Ireland church, built or rebuilt c. 1720 and rebuilt in 1784 and again c. 1825, comprising four-bay nave elevations to northwest and southeast and having single-bay gable-fronted entrance porch to the southwest gable end, added c. 1900. Possibly containing the fabric of early medieval and medieval churches to site (LF023-097001-). Stepped cut limestone bellcote over southwest gable end having moulded cut stone coping over with fleur-de-lis finial. Pitched natural slate roof to main body of building having raised cut stone coping to gable ends. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Slate roof to later porch to southwest gable end. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth to nave elevations and to the northeast gable end. Exposed squared rubble limestone construction to southwest gable end; lined -and-ruled smooth render finish to porch. Cut stone memorial monument built into the southeast elevation of nave (Nugent family, dated 1764 and 1778?) having moulded cut stone cornice over having pulvinated frieze. Pointed arch window openings to nave elevations having stepped cut limestone sills, timber Y tracery and multiple pane/lattice-type windows. Triple-light pointed arch window opening to chancel/northeast gable end having chamfered dressed limestone surround, stepped cut stone sill, cut stone intersecting tracery and stained glass windows. Lancet openings to southwest gable end, set high in gable having dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds and stained glass windows. Pointed arch opening to bellcote having chamfered reveals and metal bell. Pointed arch door opening to front face of porch having dressed chamfered limestone surround with hoodmoulding over and timber panelled double door. Set back from road in oval enclosure with rubble stone boundary walls. Main entrance gateway to the southwest comprising a pair of dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having chamfered dressed limestone plinths, moulded capstones and a pair of wrought-iron gates with cast-iron finials. Cut stone stile to the northwest of gateway. Graveyard to site having collection of upstanding, recumbent, box, table and vault-type grave markers dating from the late-seventeenth century. Metal railings to a number of grave markers. Number of inscribed early medieval cross-slabs (LF023-097003-; LF023-097004-), and three architectural fragments (LF023-097002-) of medieval appearance to site. Located to the east end of the village green at Taghshinny, and to the east of Barry and to the northwest of Abbeyshrule. Associated Church of Ireland rectory (13402330) adjacent to the east.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with single-storey lean-to extension attached to east gable end and single-bay single-storey garage with steeply pitched corrugated-metal roof attached to the west gable end (formerly in use as a forge/smithy). Main building formerly in use as a public house (c. 1860). Pitched artificial slate roof with three lined-and-ruled rendered chimneystacks, one to either gable end and one to the centre, and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed door opening with timber battened door having overlight above. Raised rendered verges to outbuildings to either side. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to east with pitched corrugated-roof, rubble stone walls and square-headed door openings with timber battened doors. Rubble stone boundary walls to east and west of site. Gateway to east of house comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having with wrought-iron flat bar gate. Road-fronted, facing north onto the former fair green in the centre of Taghshinny village. Located to the southwest of Legan, and to the northwest of Abbeyshrule.

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_1773 (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 Taghshinny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Taghshinny · Teach Sinche

Area

1,502,408 m² (150.24 ha, 371.25 acres)

Civil parish

Taghshinny, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

Electoral division

Kilglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilglass electoral division: 730 people in 280 households; 81% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartronfin, Corrabola, Glebe, Kilcurry, Killeendowd, Kilnacarrow, Lisnacreevy, Streamstown, Tennalick

Placenames

Taghshinny 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.