Tawnagh
Tawnagh is a townland in the civil parish of Killoe, barony of Longford, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is An Tamhnach.
- Area
- 198.9 ha
- 491 acres
- Land parcels
- 99
- registered freehold, median 4,272 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnagh, from 67 m² to 242,149 m² (24.21 ha, 59.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tawnagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Dec 2025Refused
to construct an extension to the rear of an existing two storey dwelling house, internal and external alterations to existing dwelling house, bored well, boundary walls, piers & fencing, decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of a new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560318
4 Jun 2025Refused
to construct an extension to the rear of an existing two storey dwelling house, internal and external alterations to existing dwelling house, bored well, boundary walls, piers & fencing, decommissioning of existing septic tank and retention permission for the installation of a new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560114
11 Nov 2020Conditional
of existing bungalow type dwelling house that was previously granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL04/1155 as currently constructed in its current location and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20270
27 Jun 2018N/a
proposed construction of 1 No. Bell Mouth Entrance with access road so as to facilitate access into existing forestry plantation for the removal of timber and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 18137
23 May 2018N/a
proposed construction of 1 No. Bell Mouth Entrance with access road so as to facilitate access into existing forestry plantation for the removal of timber and all ancillary works.
Permission · Longford County Council, 18106
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tawnagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tawnagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tawnagh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Tawnagh, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tawnagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tawnagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Tawnagh · An Tamhnach
- Area
- 1,988,567 m² (198.86 ha, 491.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Ballinamuck West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 530 people lived in 210 households in the Ballinamuck West electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadowry, Camagh, Edenmore, Gaigue, Shanmullagh
- Placenames
- Tawnagh 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.