Tennalick

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tennalick, from 76 m² to 269,478 m² (26.95 ha, 66.59 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 Tennalick 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.

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  construct livestock underpass with effluent tank & access roadways and all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360064

• 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

• 22 Dec 2021Refused

  proposed construction of two storey type dwelling with attached domestic garage, formation of a new entrance, boundary fence, piers and walls, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21368

• 25 Sept 2018Conditional

  (A) Proposed construction of a two storey extension to service existing storey & a half type dwelling house (B) Proposed construction of a garage/shed type structure to service existing storey & a half type dwelling house (C) Proposed retention & completion of existing entrance to service existing storey & a half type dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18208

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

• LF023-100 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a knoll in low-lying marshy ground. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 23m) defined by a partially natural, irregular scarp. There was no trace of a fosse or the original entrance. It has since been levelled and apart from a low scarp (H 0.4-0.6m) from SE-S-SW, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF023-122 Earthwork
  Description

  Probably associated with a 17th-century house (LF023-123001-) that may have been incorporated into 'Tennalick House', a now-derelict 18th-century house. A series of earthworks are visible on an aerial photograph (SMR file) to the NW of the house. They may be part of a field system of pre-AD 1700 date as five fields are evident. However, a sunken linear feature suggests the possibility that they may be part of a landscaped garden and that the sunken feature is a pathway through it. Two roughly parallel NW-SE running banks are also visible to the SE of the house, in the field adjacent to the river. Again, they may be associated with the 17th-century house. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 March 2013

• LF023-123001 House - 17th century
  Description

  In level pasture c. 80m to the N of the Inny River. Described by Nicholas Dowdall in 1682 as 'on the North side of this river is Tineleeke, Englished the House of Broad Stone where was formerly an old castle [LF023-123002-], it is the Estate of Mr. John Sankey, whose father, Henry Sankey Esqr. did much improve & built a large house on it' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 209). The present two-storey, L-shaped house, now derelict, appears to date to the early 18th-century but it may have been built on the site of or incorporate the earlier 17th-century house. A number of cut-stone fragments, with punch dressing of 17th-century date, are visible in the wall c. 7m to the E house and two chamfered jamb stones were reused in the 19th-century doorway in the wall c. 6m to its S. All of these fragments may be from the earlier house. Earthworks (LF023-122----) are evident in the field to the NW of the house, and a deer park (LF023-135----) may be associated. (www.buildingsofireland.ie, Reg. 13402348, last accessed 16 October 2012) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 October 2012

• LF023-123004 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Incorporated into the fabric of an 18th-century corn mill. Several cut-stone fragments, including alternating long and short quoins stones with punch dressing of late 16th/17th-century appearance, are visible on the SE angle of the building. They may be from an earlier water mill (LF023-123003-) or, alternatively, they may be from the castle (LF023-123002-). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 16 October 2012

• LF023-132 Bridge
  Description

  Spanning the Inny River. A stone bridge at Tennalick was one of three stone bridges (see also LF023-113008-, LF024-009----) recorded by Dowdall on this river in the 17th century. In 1682 he wrote that the 'first of these stone Bridges is called Belanalack [Tennalick] signifying a slate from broad thin stones that are in the River' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 209). The present bridge is named 'Clynan or New Bridge' on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map, suggesting that it may have replaced the bridge described in 1682. It comprises a substantial masonry bridge of rubble-stone construction with nine semicircular arches with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs, and parapets with rounded coping (www.buildingsofireland.ie, Reg. 13402350, last accessed 26 March 2012). The large supporting piers and arches are indicative of a late 17th/early 18th century date. The proximity of Tennalick Castle (LF023-123002-) and house (LF023-123001-), c. 230m and c. 400m to the NNE respectively, suggests a possible connection between these structures. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 May 2012

Architectural heritage

• Draper's Bridge, bridge, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch canal bridge carrying road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815, having flat road deck. Elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Dressed ashlar limestone construction to spandrel walls, with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Dressed ashlar limestone construction to parapets (formerly rendered) with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Rubble limestone construction to inner faces of parapets. Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Cut limestone name plaques (on square-plan) having moulded raised margins to outer faces of parapets inscribed ‘Draper’s Bridge’. Dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (north and south). Rubble limestone wing walls to ends of bridge, rounded dressed limestone coping over wing walls in places. Located to the southeast of Taghshinny, and to the west of Abbeyshrule. Canal lock (13402342) and associated canal lock keeper’s house (13402343) adjacent to the east and southeast respectively.

• 39th Lock, lock, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Canal lock, built c. 1815, consisting of pair of restored timber and steel breast gates with timber footboards and balance beams. Set within dressed ashlar limestone lock chamber with ashlar limestone capstones having bevelled edges. Metal sluice machinery to the southwest of lock. Timber mooring post at intervals between gates. Associated lock keeper's house (13402343) to the southeast. Located adjacent to Draper’s Bridge (13402341) and to the west of Abbeyshrule.

• 39th Lock, lock keeper's house, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey lock keeper's house, built c. 1815. Now derelict. Hipped natural slate roof with central rendered chimneystack (now obscured by ivy), with cut stone eaves course and the remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth. Roughcast rendered walls, render now failing and exposing squared rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings, set in recessed segmental-headed arches with brick voussoirs to arch, with cut stone sills and remains of six-over-six timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorway to main elevation (north), set in recessed segmental-headed arch with brick reveals, having remains of battened timber door. Located adjacent to lock 39 (13402342) and Draper’s Bridge (13402341), and to the west of Abbeyshrule. Single-storey outbuilding adjacent to the east, now overgrown. Rubble limestone boundary walls to site.

• Tennalick House, house, 1700–1720 · National interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey house, built c. 1710 and probably incorporating the fabric of an earlier house to site c. 1660. Built on L-shaped plan comprising a five-bay two-storey range to the north with a four-bay two-storey range attached to the south end (running east-west). Later partially in use as stables, and later as a dwelling again until c. 1960. Now out of use, derelict and largely overgrown with vegetation. External flight limestone steps (on dog leg-plan) to north gable end of block to the north, having red brick wall to exterior face, giving access to doorway at first floor level to northeast corner (rear). Steeply pitched natural slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and cut limestone eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone string course between floors and chamfered cut stone plinth course to base. Render now failing exposing rubble stone and squared rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills; window fittings now largely removed although a number of multiple-pan timber sliding sash window with exposed sash boxes set flush to front elevation remain in-situ. Number of window openings now blocked with brick infill. Square-headed door openings to front elevation (west) of north wing and to north elevation and west gable end of range to south wing. Carved limestone surrounds to door openings with architraves, and having flat friezes with moulded limestone cornices over. Remains of timber spoked fanlight to the doorway to the north elevation of wing to south. Some doorways now blocked with brick and rubble stone infill. Interesting interior with groin vaulted roof to ground floor supported on carved limestone Doric columns/pilasters. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the northeast of Ballymahon and the west of Abbeyshrule. Later complex of outbuildings (13402355) arranged around a courtyard to the northeast. Single-storey rubble stone outbuilding to the rear at the northeast end of range to north. Possible remains of late seventeenth-century or early eighteenth-century formal garden to the west and northwest of house (LF023-122----). Remains of walled garden on rectangular-plan to the southeast of house having rubble stone exterior walls faced internally with red brick having inlayed black brick diamond/diaper-work patterns. Similar diaper-work pattern to east face of support wall of flight of exterior stone steps to house. Rubble stone boundary walls to site. Dressed and roughly dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) to site, some having wrought-iron gates and pedestrian gates. Elaborate moulded limestone capstones to a number of gate piers (southeast of house), probably reused from an earlier building. Remains of long straight approach avenue (‘the Long Avenue’), c. 2 miles in length, runs to house from the north. Approach avenue now bisected by the Royal Canal a short distance to the north of the house.

• Clynan Bridge, bridge, 1680–1720 · Regional interest
  Description

  Nine-arch bridge carrying road over the River Inny, built c. 1700, having triangular-profile cutwaters to the east elevation (upstream). Semi-circular aches with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs to arches. Arch to south end now dry. Rubble stone construction to abutments, piers, barrels and spandrels. Rubble stone parapets with rounded coping over. Bridge rises gently to the centre. Rubble stone wing walls to parapet ends. Located to the northeast of Ballymahon, just to the north of Cloghan Mills (13402351), and to the west of Abbeyshrule.

• Tennalick House, outbuilding, 1760–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single-storey outbuildings located to the northeast of Tennalick House (13402348), built c. 1770 or c. 1820, comprising a multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding on L-shaped plan to the south and a two-bay single-storey shed to the north. Altered c. 1840. Now out of use and derelict. Pitched natural slate and corrugated-metal roofs with red brick eaves courses. Roughly dressed coursed limestone walls with redbrick string courses at arch impost level. Segmental-headed carriage arch openings with redbrick voussoirs and brick block-and-start surrounds; some openings now infilled with coursed dressed limestone having square-headed door openings with remains of timber battened doors. Carved limestone water trough adjacent to south range. Gateway to the west having roughly dressed limestone rubble gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone plinth and wrought-iron flat bar gate. Rubble stone and brick boundary walls to site. Set well back from road to the northeast of Ballymahon and to the west 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_1795 (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 Tennalick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Tennalick · Tigh na Leice

Area

2,222,249 m² (222.22 ha, 549.13 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

Cloghan, Clynan, Colehill, Drumanure, Kilnacarrow, Streamstown, Taghshinny

Placenames

Tennalick 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.