Torboy

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Torboy, from 124 m² to 287,592 m² (28.76 ha, 71.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Torboy 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.

• 7 May 2024Conditional

  the proposed change of both house design and its location from what was granted full planning permission under PL21/258 for a single storey bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system with suitable polishing filter, boundary fence/wall, entrance & all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460089

• 6 Sept 2021Conditional

  construction of part single-storey, part two-storey dwelling house with detached garage, wastewater treatment system, boundary fence/wall and new entrance gates and associated site development works. Significant further information submitted for permission for revised site layout, location of dwelling, site entrance, domestic garage and septic tank. Additionally , dwelling plan altered with reduced ridge height and ancillary garage fenestration & footprint reduced

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21258

• 11 Oct 2017Conditional

  for the demolition of a farm out-building and hay barn and the construction of a single storey two bedroom dwelling house on the footprint of said out-building along with installation of septic tank and percolation area, together with connections to all services and other associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17255

• 17 May 2017Conditional

  (a) Retention of milking parlour, waiting yard, parlour washings tank, cubicle shed, straw bedded shed, silage slab, & slurry tower (b) construction of cubicle shed with underground slatted tank (c) construction of extension to existing slurry tower (d) construction of calf shed (e) construction of silage slab and all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17145

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Torboy.

Recorded monuments

• LF023-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hillock in pasture. Depicted as a small circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The enclosing element is planted with trees at intervals. On the 1914 map ed. only the trees are evident. Not visible at ground level. Possibly a landscaped rath. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 24 February 2012

• LF023-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the E slope of a low ridge in pasture. A slightly raised oval area (c. 44m NNW-SSE; c. 37m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.5m; H 0.1-0.2m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a shallow external fosse, which has since been infilled from WNW-N-SSW. From SSW-W-WNW the bank and fosse have been incorporated into a field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Torboy House, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1860, having two-storey return to the rear at the northwest corner. Decorative open cast-iron entrance porch to centre of front elevation (southeast). Single-storey single-bay lean-to extension to the northwest elevation of return; three-bay single-storey extension to the east end of rear elevation (northwest). Hipped natural slate roof with lead ridge capping and cast-iron rainwater goods. Central pair of rendered chimneystacks to main block having cut stone coping over, rendered chimneystack to two-storey return, and a pair of diagonally-set rendered chimneystacks to northwest end of northwest lean-to return. Sheet metal/leaded roof to porch. Painted pebbledashed walls with lined-and-ruled render section adjacent to main doorway, behind porch. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Central round-headed door opening to main elevation (southeast) having timber door with recessed round-headed panels, spider’s web fanlight over, and moulded limestone steps. Timber shutters visible to interior of windows. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the southwest of Ardagh. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings to the rear, comprising a multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding on L-shaped plan to the north/northeast, built c. 1820, and a multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to the west, c. 1860. Pitched natural slate roofs to two-storey outbuilding with raised rendered verges to gable end and with cut stone eaves course; corrugated-metal roof to single-storey outbuilding with central rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls to two-storey outbuilding with square-headed window and door openings having limestone sills and remains of timber fittings. Segmental-headed carriage arches some having timber battened doors and some with hooped wrought-iron flat bar gates. Rubble stone gateway to two -storey range to northeast serving segmental-headed doorway at first floor level. Rubble stone construction to single-storey outbuilding having square-headed openings with timber battened doors. Section of rubble stone wall to the southwest of house having integral square-headed pedestrian gateway with cut stone lintel and wrought-iron gate. Rendered rubble stone boundary walls to rear courtyard. Cast-iron water pump and water trough to rear yard. Gate piers (on square-plan) to the northwest end of lean-to extension to rear at northwest end having hooped wrought-iron gates. Main gateway to the south of house comprising a pair of rendered rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) with wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of rendered rubble stone boundary wall. Gateway to the south of main gates, at start of approach avenue, comprising a pair of cut limestone gate posts (on octagonal-plan).

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Torboy.

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 Torboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Torboy · An Tuar Buí

Area

1,439,319 m² (143.93 ha, 355.66 acres)

Civil parish

Taghsheenod, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Doory, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doory electoral division: 416 people in 156 households; 87% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyderg, Cloonscott, Curraghmore, Currycreaghan, Loughan, Mornin

Placenames

Torboy 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.