# Turreen, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Rathcline, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford; in Irish An Toirín.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,174,550 m² (117.46 ha, 290.24 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,965 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Rathcline, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/rathcline.md
- Barony: Rathcline
- Electoral division: Rathcline, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,700 people lived in 675 households in the Rathcline electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33430
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130882
- Centre: latitude 53.637404, longitude -7.956506 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turreen, from 1,151 m² to 373,038 m² (37.3 ha, 92.18 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 55775: 373,038 m² (37.3 ha, 92.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55775.md
- Parcel 57114: 167,456 m² (16.75 ha, 41.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57114.md
- Parcel 53245: 123,694 m² (12.37 ha, 30.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53245.md
- Parcel 53243: 105,425 m² (10.54 ha, 26.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53243.md
- Parcel 81603: 86,495 m² (8.65 ha, 21.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81603.md
- Parcel 4847828: 66,452 m² (6.65 ha, 16.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4847828.md
- Parcel 53244: 58,809 m² (5.88 ha, 14.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53244.md
- Parcel 2756691: 29,337 m² (2.93 ha, 7.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2756691.md
- Parcel 2478468: 27,364 m² (2.74 ha, 6.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2478468.md
- Parcel 66555: 26,909 m² (2.69 ha, 6.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/66555.md
- Parcel 2756688: 22,943 m² (2.29 ha, 5.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2756688.md
- Parcel 54238: 20,648 m² (2.06 ha, 5.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54238.md
- Parcel 80361: 14,087 m² (1.41 ha, 3.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80361.md
- Parcel 81602: 3,091 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81602.md
- Parcel 4849874: 3,024 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4849874.md
- Parcel 84734: 2,906 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/84734.md
- Parcel 2757542: 2,851 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2757542.md
- Parcel 2479608: 2,817 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2479608.md
- Parcel 2764018: 2,815 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2764018.md
- Parcel 57220: 2,703 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57220.md
- Parcel 58203: 2,687 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58203.md
- Parcel 76414: 2,527 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76414.md
- Parcel 66617: 2,420 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/66617.md
- Parcel 67454: 2,375 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/67454.md
- Parcel 70127: 2,162 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70127.md
- Parcel 57535: 1,968 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/57535.md
- Parcel 55573: 1,879 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/55573.md
- Parcel 56287: 1,652 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/56287.md
- Parcel 53031: 1,500 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/53031.md
- Parcel 3323659: 1,151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3323659.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Turreen 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.

- 19 Aug 2026, Longford County Council 2660261: N/a. Permission. RED III application for a 10 Year Planning Permission with an operational lifespan of 40 years, for development in the townlands of, Commons North, Gorteengar, Tullyvrane, Knock, Lisrevagh, Rathcline, Lisnacush, Carrigeens, Carrowroe and Aghaloughan, County Longford. The grid connection route (subject to a separate future planning application to An Coimisiún Pleanála) will be in the townlands of Aghamore and Lanesborough. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply. The planning application is subject to a completeness check under section 37JA of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended by the European Union (Planning and Development) (Renewable Energy) Regulations 2025. The development consists of: a solar farm with a total area of circa 146.93 ha. The proposed solar farm development spans a total site area measuring circa 96.3ha. The export capacity to the grid is estimated to be up to 85 MW. The proposed development will consist of a solar farm comprising of: • Installation of approximately 49.1 ha (approximately 910,650 sqm solar PV panel arrays, to include approximately 491,270 sqm of ground-mounted panels supported by steel frame structures, and the remaining area as solar array row spacing. • Construction of 24 MV stations. • A 110 kV on-site substation (0.7 ha) and approximately 1.7 km of underground cabling to connect to the national grid (subject to a separate future planning application to An Coimisiún Pleanála). The grid connection route will be in the townlands of Aghamore and Lanesborough. • Installation of underground cabling and ducting, comprising approximately 3.13 km along the public roads R392, L1168, L5264 and L1164. • Provision of two temporary site compounds, welfare facilities and materials storage areas. • Provision of seven temporary laydown areas for materials storage and welfare units (portaloos). • Construction of approximately 8.9 km of internal access tracks throughout the site. • Erection of 19 no. pole mounted, inward facing CCTV cameras for site monitoring across the proposed development. • Construction and operational access via existing entrances on. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660261/0
- 17 Oct 2025, Longford County Council 2548: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to refurbish and extend existing dwelling house, and to upgrade existing septic tank with a new treatment plant, to provide secondary and tertiary treatment and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2548/0
- 4 Jul 2025, Longford County Council 2523: Conditional. Permission. a four bay slatted shed, underground tank, creep area, dry bedded area and lie back area, also to retain enclosed and open roofed machinery sheds, roofed area over yard and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2523/0
- 17 Dec 2021, Longford County Council 21360: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to erect a dwelling house, provide a septic tank system and a percolation area and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/21360/0

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## 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 Turreen.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LF017-023: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF017-023----. On a low rise in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and named 'Site of' on the 1883 revised edition. The monument has been levelled and house and garden occupy its interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 18 January 2012
- LF017-030: Burial mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF017-030----. In July 1982 human remains were discovered in the corner of a large field, on the grounds of a newly constructed house near Lanesborough. A mound (3m N-S; H 0.5m) had been levelled and the remains of four or five individuals were scattered throughout the disturbed soil. They had been lying in an east-west direction and no grave goods were found with them. There was no tradition of a church or graveyard in the immediate area (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 367-9). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 April 2012

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)

- House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13401707, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF&regno=13401707. Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having later flat-roofed single-bay entrance porch to the front elevation (northeast), added c. 1940. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-asbestos roof with two rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with lined-and-ruled rendered finish porch. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and rendered sills. Square-headed door opening to north face of porch having timber battened door. Set back from road in own grounds to the southeast of Lanesborough. House aligned at right angle to the road alignment. Single-storey outbuilding to east of house site with pitched corrugated-metal roof, random rubble limestone walls and squared-headed openings. Rubble stone boundary walls to road-frontage (north). Entrance gateway to the east of house having a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having moulded render caps and wrought-iron gate.

## 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 Turreen, 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 Turreen.
- 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/turreen.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/turreen.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/turreen.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Turreen 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)

- Carrigeens: https://everytownland.com/longford/carrigeens.md
- Killinure: https://everytownland.com/longford/killinure.md
- Lehery: https://everytownland.com/longford/lehery.md
- Lisnacush: https://everytownland.com/longford/lisnacush.md
- Lissawly or St. Alban's: https://everytownland.com/longford/lissawly-or-st-albans.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.

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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/turreen
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/turreen