Longfield
Townland in the civil parish of Templemore, barony of Gallen, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Cnoc Fada
- Area
- 62.7 ha
- 155 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 39,258 m² (3.93 ha, 9.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longfield, from 13,210 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres) to 107,477 m² (10.75 ha, 26.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Longfield 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Longfield in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Longfield.
Recorded monuments
- MA060-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, located on a drumlin, which provides good views in all directions. When inspected in 1984, this rath consisted of a subcircular area (33m N−S; 30m E−W) defined by of two low banks with an intervening fosse. At SW−NW the outer bank was incorporated into a N−S field fence, and at NW−NE the fosse and outer bank were truncated by an E−W field fence. The interior sloped gently down from W to E. The rath was subsequently levelled, and when inspected in 1994 there were no above ground remains, except for possible remnants of the outer bank incorporated into the field boundary at W. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 July 2017
- MA070-061 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture near the SE end of a ridge, with excellent views throughout. An oval-shaped area (int. diams. 33m E-W; 26m N-S) is defined by the remains of an inner and outer earthen bank with an intervening fosse. The inner bank (int. H 0.7m; Wth 6m; ext. H over base of fosse 1.7m) is best preserved along the N and has been reduced to a scarp (H 2.7m) along the E and S. The fosse (Wth 3m) is traceable from SSW-N-SE but has been dug away at S. The outer bank is poorly preserved, only surviving along the SW (int. H over base of fosse 0.5m; Wth 6m; ext. H 1.5m) and at N. The interior is featureless and slopes down slightly towards the S. Date of visit: 13-08-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Longfield.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Longfield.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Longfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Longfield · An Cnoc Fada
- Area
- 626,770 m² (62.68 ha, 154.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templemore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gallen
- Electoral division
- Strade, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Strade electoral division: 647 people in 239 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Knockafall, Knocknakillew, Knockshanbally, Tawnagh Beg
- Placenames
- Longfield 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.