# Torboy, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taghsheenod, barony of Moydow, Co. Longford; in Irish An Tuar Buí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,439,319 m² (143.93 ha, 355.66 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,063 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taghsheenod, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/taghsheenod.md - Barony: Moydow - Electoral division: Doory, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 416 people lived in 156 households in the Doory electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32642 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130867 - Centre: latitude 53.631491, longitude -7.761903 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Torboy, from 124 m² to 287,592 m² (28.76 ha, 71.07 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 3469104: 287,592 m² (28.76 ha, 71.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3469104.md - Parcel 68030: 245,255 m² (24.53 ha, 60.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/68030.md - Parcel 76486: 241,875 m² (24.19 ha, 59.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76486.md - Parcel 58301: 124,890 m² (12.49 ha, 30.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58301.md - Parcel 58299: 89,905 m² (8.99 ha, 22.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58299.md - Parcel 4810867: 72,992 m² (7.3 ha, 18.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4810867.md - Parcel 58303: 61,334 m² (6.13 ha, 15.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58303.md - Parcel 76487: 53,038 m² (5.3 ha, 13.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76487.md - Parcel 4810936: 48,038 m² (4.8 ha, 11.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4810936.md - Parcel 58297: 35,282 m² (3.53 ha, 8.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58297.md - Parcel 3468964: 32,852 m² (3.29 ha, 8.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3468964.md - Parcel 67202: 19,136 m² (1.91 ha, 4.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/67202.md - Parcel 58305: 18,483 m² (1.85 ha, 4.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58305.md - Parcel 58300: 16,384 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58300.md - Parcel 58218: 16,169 m² (1.62 ha, 4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58218.md - Parcel 6052446: 7,853 m² (0.79 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6052446.md - Parcel 76491: 7,097 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76491.md - Parcel 58294: 6,447 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58294.md - Parcel 58302: 6,121 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58302.md - Parcel 76492: 6,005 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76492.md - Parcel 83329: 5,430 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/83329.md - Parcel 58296: 4,881 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58296.md - Parcel 61846: 4,692 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61846.md - Parcel 67457: 4,198 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/67457.md - Parcel 60171: 2,810 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60171.md - Parcel 2518658: 2,761 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2518658.md - Parcel 4864405: 2,717 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4864405.md - Parcel 68031: 2,643 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/68031.md - Parcel 70404: 2,469 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70404.md - Parcel 58298: 2,195 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58298.md - Parcel 76489: 2,133 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76489.md - Parcel 64771: 2,031 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/64771.md - Parcel 5336268: 1,262 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5336268.md - Parcel 76488: 1,131 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/76488.md - Parcel 5757216: 913 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5757216.md - Parcel 5336274: 741 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5336274.md - Parcel 58304: 180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/58304.md - Parcel 4864406: 124 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4864406.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 7 May 2024, Longford County Council 2460089: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460089/0 - 6 Sept 2021, Longford County Council 21258: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/21258/0 - 11 Oct 2017, Longford County Council 17255: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/17255/0 - 17 May 2017, Longford County Council 17145: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/17145/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Torboy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF023-002: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-002----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF023-003----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Torboy House, house, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 13401917, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13401917. 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). ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Torboy, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/torboy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/torboy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/torboy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Torboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Abbeyderg: https://everytownland.com/longford/abbeyderg.md - Cloonscott: https://everytownland.com/longford/cloonscott.md - Curraghmore: https://everytownland.com/longford/curraghmore.md - Currycreaghan: https://everytownland.com/longford/currycreaghan.md - Loughan: https://everytownland.com/longford/loughan.md - Mornin: https://everytownland.com/longford/mornin.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/torboy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/torboy