Toome

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toome, from 38 m² to 130,455 m² (13.05 ha, 32.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Toome 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.

• 22 Dec 2023Refused

  the proposed demolition of the existing cottage dwelling and to be reinstated as its original structure. The construction of a two-storey extension to the side (northeast) elevation and rear (northwest) elevation of the existing cottage dwelling as per accompanying drawings. Proposed new vehicular entrance to the western boundary of the site. The installation of a proprietary treatment system and percolation area as per submitted drawings and specifications to EPA and Local Authority recommendations, inclusive of all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360241

• 27 Feb 2023Conditional

  the construction of a walled silage slab/manure pit & underground effluent storage tank, loose shed & to replace existing loose shed along with all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2343

• 26 May 2021Conditional

  A) front porch servicing existing storey and a half type dwelling house B) Existing storey and a half type extension constructed to the rear of existing storey and a half type dwelling house C) existing detached garage with office accommodation at first floor level and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 21158

• 11 Jun 2018Conditional

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

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18121

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toome.

Architectural heritage

• Toome 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. Roughcast rendered spandrel walls, over rubble stone construction, having cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Roughcast rendered parapets, over rubble stone construction, to parapets, with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Towpath to south bank of canal with dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (north and south). Wrought-iron turnstile gate to the southwest end of arch, to towpath. Located to the northeast of Ballymahon.

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 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_1753 (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.

• Toome, Ballymahon7 sales

Name

Toome · Tuaim

Area

1,255,957 m² (125.6 ha, 310.35 acres)

Civil parish

Taghshinny, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

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

Agharanagh, Ballybranigan, Ballymulvey, Barry, Cloonard, Cloonkeen, Tipper

Placenames

Toome 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.