Tirlickeen

126 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tirlickeen, from 41 m² to 556,167 m² (55.62 ha, 137.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Tirlickeen 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.

• 14 Nov 2025Conditional

  a RED III Application for a 10 year planning permission with an operational lifespan of 40 years. The development applied for consisted of a solar farm and energy storage compound with a total area of circa 111.1ha. The proposed solar farm development spans a total site area measuring circa 94.18ha. The export capacity to the grid is estimated to be up to 80 MW. The development will consist of a solar farm comprising of: · Installation of approximately 700,000 sqm solar PV panel arrays, to include approximately 355,000 sqm of ground mounted panels supported by steel frame structures, and the remaining area as solar array row spacing. · Installation of approximately 18 MV stations. · An energy storage compound consisting of 56 no. containerised energy storage modules and associated plant and equipment. · Installation of underground cabling and ducting, comprising approximately 1.8 km along the R397 and L5527 public roads. · Provision of temporary site compounds, welfare facilities, and secure materials storage areas. · Construction of circa 3,800m internal access tracks throughout the site. · Erection of approximately 550 m of security fencing around the BESS compound and pole-mounted CCTV cameras for site monitoring. · Construction and operational access via two existing entrances on the R397 and L5527 roads. · Landscaping and biodiversity enhancement measures. The proposed development will also include drainage and all ancillary development works and apparatus necessary to facilitate the proposed development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. The application may also be viewed/downloaded on the following website; https://www.bnrgballymahon.com/

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560265

• 12 Sept 2025Conditional

  (a) renovations of existing single storey type dwelling house to include reroofing of same together with provision of attic accommodation. (b) proposed construction of an extension to the existing dwelling house. (c) relocation of the existing vehicular entrance which fronts out onto regional road number R397 and which services the existing dwelling house onto the side minor road. d) replacing existing septic tank system with the installation of a suitable onsite sewerage system with polishing filter in accordance with the EPA Code of Practice 2021, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560195

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  a 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm and energy storage compound with a total area of circa 130 hectares. The proposed development will consist of a solar farm comprising of c. 661,500 sq.m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, associated string inverters mounted to rear of panels and 42 no. single storey electrical transformer stations. The proposed development includes an energy storage compound consisting of 38 no. containerised energy storage modules and associated plant and equipment, 10 no. transformers, 2 no. auxiliary transformers, 1 no. medium voltage control / switching substation and 1 no. spare parts container. The proposed development will also include underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site and within the L1139, L1137, L1135, R392 and L1132 public roads, and crossing of the Royal Canal (either by open trench or horizontal directional drill), temporary construction compounds, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks (including clear span bridge over Donacurry River), landscaping, drainage and all ancillary development works and apparatus necessary to facilitate the proposed development. Construction and operational access will be via 5 no. existing entrances from the L1139, L1137, L1135 and L1132 which will be upgraded and 2 no. new entrances from the L11351. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460325

• 23 Apr 2024Conditional

  two agricultural sheds and for retention and completion of a farm office including all other associated site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2423

• 6 Apr 2023Conditional

  the proposed demolition of existing showroom building together with the proposed construction of a new showroom building in a new location to the north-east of the existing showroom building, proposed connections to the existing services onsite and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2371

• 14 Sept 2022Conditional

  the following; (i) proposed alterations to the facades of existing showroom building consisting of additional glazing, erection of a parapet, entrance canopy, installation of new cladding & signage; (ii) proposed construction of a lean-to type extension to the rear of existing vehicle service; repair garage for use as a vehicle valeting area; (iii) proposed erection of additional bollards along the front boundary of the property together with the proposed installation of automatic retractable bollards at the entry & exit locations of the property; and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22218

• 2 Jun 2022Conditional

  the proposed demolition of an existing single storey sun lounge to the side of existing two storey type dwelling house together with the proposed construction of a single storey extension to the side of existing two storey type dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22135

• 10 Aug 2021Conditional

  (1) construct a storey and a half extension to the rear of an existing bungalow type dwelling house and internal and external alterations to the existing bungalow (2) new proposed entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing (3) retention of existing garage (4) new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21234

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  (i) of the recently constructed concrete yard for the storage of vehicles which is an extension to an existing tarmacadam surfaced car park previously granted full planning permission under Planning Reference Number PL19/144 (ii) Retention of the recently constructed lean-to extension to the existing workshop type structure previously granted full planning permission under Planning Reference Numbers PL19/318, PL15/49 & PL14/41

  Retention · Longford County Council, 21199

• 10 Jun 2020Conditional

  proposed construction of an extension to an existing garage that services an existing dwelling house that was granted full planning permission under Planning Reference Number PL07/1147 together with converting part of the existing garage so that the proposed extension & garage conversion will create a detached habitable family accommodation and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20122

• 5 Jun 2020Conditional

  retention of demolition of dwelling and construction of dwelling to wall plate level and permission to complete construction of dormer type dwelling, demolish shed, new boundary wall/fence, entrance, waste water treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20118

• 11 Dec 2019Conditional

  proposed construction of an extension to existing workshop type structure previously granted full planning permission under Planning Reference Number PL14/41 & PL15/49 and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19318

• 14 Aug 2019Conditional

  the proposed construction of a storey and a half type dwelling, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19213

• 31 May 2019Conditional

  retention of existing newly constructed tarmacked surfaced car park with perimeter fencing for the storage of vehicles to service existing car sales/repairs garage, all ancillary works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 19144

• 29 Mar 2019Conditional

  proposed extension to the rear of existing dormer type dwelling house to include amendments to roof and relevant elevations and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1994

• 17 Oct 2018Conditional

  construct domestic garage/store with 1st floor mezzanine and all associated site development works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18230

• 29 Aug 2018Refused

  the proposed construction of a storey and a half type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18185

• 16 Aug 2018Refused

  proposed storey and half type dwelling house, detached garage, formation of dual entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18174

• 22 Feb 2018Conditional

  demolition of existing slatted shed and provision of new slatted shed, silo base and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1833

• 5 Jan 2018Refused

  of Existing Agricultural Entrance servicing Existing Agricultural Lands together with also seeking Full Planning Permission to Decommission Existing Agricultural Entrance and all ancillary works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 181

• 8 Dec 2017N/a

  for the Retention of Existing Agricultural Entrance servicing Existing Agricultural Lands together with Full Planning Permission to Decommission Existing Agricultural Entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17302

• 3 Jul 2017Conditional

  proposed extension of existing yard which was previously granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL02/504, for the storage of vehicles to service existing car sales/repairs garage and showroom together with the proposed erection of a perimeter fence and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17185

• 31 Mar 2017Refused

  of existing agricultural entrance which services existing agricultural lands and all ancillary works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 1797

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

• LF022-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying, level pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a much-denuded, wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.2m; H 0.15-0.35m) with a wide, shallow intervening fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.8m) and an outer bank (Wth 1.8m; H 0.3-0.5m). The outer bank has been substantially modified and incorporated into a field boundary. From WNW–N–NE the monument is skirted by a laneway. A break (Wth 3.5m) in the bank at ENE may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 18 January 2012

• LF022-045 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In pasture on a S-facing slope. This natural spring well is covered with bushes; a stream flows S from it. No votive offerings were visible in its vicinity. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 7 June 2013

• LF022-072002 Bawn
  Description

  Associated with a 17th-century house (LF022-072001-). The 1641 depositions state that John Farrell, along with others, ‘had taken up his castle [LF022-072001-]; Great house [LF022-072----] & houses off office within the Bawen’ at Tirlickeen (TCD MS 817, fol. 277v). This subrectanular bawn (32.8m E-W; 31m N-S) is enclosed by a roughly coursed, rubble-built wall (H 0.2m-1.9m; T 0.7m) with an external fosse (Wth 2m-4.5m; ext. D 0.5m) that was water-filled at the time of visit. The wall is best preserved at the E angle and along the SE side. Only the wall-footings of the SW, NW and NE sides survive. A single upright stone on the W side of a wide gap (Wth 3.5m) in the SE wall may mark a possible gateway. A two-storey high, circular angle tower (int. diam. 3.6m; wall T 0.75m; H 3.5-4m) on the W corner is built with roughly coursed rubble and is rendered externally with lime. There is no base-batter. Access to the tower is through a broken-out doorway (Wth 1.2m) at SE. Two blocked-up slit opes or gun loops, set into flat-headed embrasures (H 0.9m; Wth 0.45m), are visible directly opposite each other just inside the doorway at NE and SW. They provided flanking fire along the external faces of the N and W walls of the bawn. Two recesses in the internal face at S may have been for supports of a timber stairs, which would have accessed the first floor. There is no evidence of any joist-holes or an offset for this floor level, which was lit by three flat-headed rectangular windows (H 1.05m; Wth 0.68m) at SW, W and N. The windows at SW and N are blocked up. A small wall cupboard (H 0.6m; Wth 0.4m) is also visible at NW. Within the interior of the bawn the wall-footings of a building (c. 9.8m E-W; 4m N-S), orientated E-W, that is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map are evident at E. There are no visible surface traces of the 17th-century house; it may have been located in the adjoining bawn to the SE. The latter irregularly shaped area (c. 72m E-W; 60m N-S) is defined by a roughly coursed rubble wall (T 0.7m), which is similar to the bawn wall and may be contemporary with it, and an external fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 0.3m). It walls are now mostly levelled, only the wall-footings of the E and W walls survive, while the external fosse or moat is all that survives on the S side. A cobbled roadway runs through its S end. Another rubble-built wall (H 0.6m; T 0.7m), again similar in construction to the bawn wall, runs off the N side of the angle tower, it may be associated with the gardens or orchards of the house – see LF022-072003. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 June 2012

• LF022-072003 Designed landscape - formal garden
  Description

  Associated with a 17th-century house (LF022-072----) and bawn (LF022-072002-). In 1682 Nicholas Dowdall noted that 'Sir Connell Ferrall Knight hath wrought much improvement … by Inclosures Orchds Gardens &c' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 211) to his house in Tirlickeen. Mason (1819, vol. 3, 340) recorded that 'traces of the old garden and orchard remain near the ruins of the old mansion-house of Tirlicken'. The orchards and gardens have not been precisely located but the trapezoidal walled area depicted to the N of the bawn on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map may be one of them. Only the W wall (L 44m; H 0.6m; wall T 0.7m) now survives. The construction of this wall and its thickness suggest that it is contemporary with the 17th-century bawn. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 June 2012

• LF022-072004 Architectural fragment
  Description

  A single piece of chamfered limestone (0.46m x 0.18m), possibly a jambstone from a window, has been reused in the N side of the doorway of an outhouse, associated with the now-levelled, late-18th-century house to the SW. This house is named ‘Tirlickeen House’ on the OS 6-inch maps. Punch dressing on the stone is indicative of a 16th-century date. The fragment may have come from the possible tower house (LF022-072001-). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 June 2013

Architectural heritage

• Pake Bridge, bridge, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch humpbacked canal bridge carrying road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Rubble stone construction to spandrel walls, formerly rendered, with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Walls now largely overgrown with ivy. Rubble stone construction to parapets, formerly rendered, with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Water pipe to south elevation of bridge. Towpath to west bank of canal, going under bridge, with dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (north and south). Located to the south of Keenagh, and to the southwest of Barry. Modern road bridge to 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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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_1718 (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 Tirlickeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Tirlickeen · Tír Licín

Area

3,454,178 m² (345.42 ha, 853.55 acres)

Civil parish

Shrule, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Ballymahon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymahon electoral division: 2,970 people in 1,076 households; 52% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornacarta, Corryena, Drinan, Foygh, Kilcommock Glebe, Knappoge, Lislom, Lismacmurrogh, Lissanisky, Moneyfad, Mullawornia

Placenames

Tirlickeen 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.