Longwood

871 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longwood, from 1 m² to 267,238 m² (26.72 ha, 66.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 670 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 118 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2B1 - Commercial Town or Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 51 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (Variation 02 - Made on 13/05/2024), Meath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1A2 - New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Jul 2026N/a

  the development consists of the change of use, alteration and completion of an existing agricultural shed to a single-storey three-bedroom dwelling with use of the existing steel frame and roof profile, provision of rendered external walls, new entrance, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter/percolation area, connection to existing private well and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660942

• 10 Feb 2026Conditional

  the development will consist of works to St. Fintina’s, a protected two-storey house (Ref. MH047-209 / NIAH 14331010) including works within its curtilage. The proposed development consists of the demolition of (A) a single-storey extension to an existing commercial building, (B) a two-storey outbuilding, and (C) associated garden walls; all to facilitate (D) the refurbishment and extension of St. Fintina’s, and (E) all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660153

• 9 Feb 2026N/a

  the development will consist of the construction of (A) 26 no. dwellings comprising of 15 no. 3-Bed detached/semi-detached units, 7 no. 2-Bed terraced units, 4 no. 1-Bed Maisonette apartment units together with boundary walls, services, new entrance and access roadway, associated footpaths and public amenity area (B) Demolition of existing hay shed and outhouses/sheds (C) all associated site works on this site

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660149

• 17 Jan 2026Conditional

  the development consists of the construction of single storey extensions to the rear and side of existing dwelling, including the retention of domestic shed at the rear of the site and all site works associated with the proposed development

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660060

• 22 Nov 2025N/a

  12 NO. DWELLINGS COMPRISING 8 NO. 3 BED SEMI-DETACHED TWO-STOREY DWELLINGS AND 4 NO 2 BED TWOSTOREY TERRACED DWELLINGS, NEW ENTRANCE TO DEVELOPMENT OFF ST. OLIVER'S ROAD WITH INTERNAL ACCESS ROAD, ASSOCIATED PATHS, TURNING, AND PUBLIC AMENITY AREA. THE DEVELOPMENT ALSO INCLUDES AN ONSITE WASTEWATER ATTENUATION SYSTEM, NEW BOUNDARY WALLS AND CONNECTION TO ALL MAINS SERVICES TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561259

• 14 Mar 2025Conditional

  change of use from retail use to retail use with ancillary off Licence use, New signage to shop front and all site works. Significant Further Information/Revised Plans submitted on this application.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2545

• 15 Oct 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of permission for a material change of use to convert unit 3 from a retail unit to a residential 3 bedroom dwelling house, a material change of use to convert unit 5 from a retail unit to a residential 1 bedroom ground floor apartment and all associated site works on this site

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460854

• 25 Jul 2024N/a

  a terrace of five two-storey dwellings with access off Saint Oliver Road through Clos Mhaigh, Dearmhai, Longwood, Co Meath at rear of dwelling at Saint Oliver's Road, Longwood, Co Meath A83 YE22

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 24317

• 15 Jul 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the following: 1. Construction of a new pumping station to transfer flows to the new treatment stream. 2. Construction of a flow splitting. 3. Construction of a new dual cell aeration tank including dual anoxic zones. 4. Construction of 2 No. new final settlement tanks. 5. Construction of both waste activated sludge (WAS) and return activated sludge (RAS) pumping stations. 6. Installation of ferric sulphate dosing system including bunded chemical storage tank. 7. Construction of a control kiosk. 8. Construction of a new sludge holding tank. 9. Solar PV panel installation capable of a maximum power generation of 10% of WwTP power requirements 10. Construction of new influent & effluent site pipework to & from the proposed infrastructure. 11. Extension of the existing site roads to the proposed infrastructure. 12. Construction of a new flood protection wall. This wall is to be constructed within the site boundary to a level of 300mm above the 0.1% Annual Exceedance Probability (AEP) (1-in-1000 year) flood level. 13. Site Landscaping & finishes. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460535

• 28 Jun 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of permission for a new agricultural entrance and all associated site works on this site

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460478

• 7 Jun 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of permission for a new 4 bedroom storey and a half type extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house and all associated site works on this site.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460412

• 7 Jun 2024Conditional

  a covered horse walker and an uncovered lunging ring

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460416

• 3 May 2024Conditional

  permission to increase our capacity by 17 children, accordingly to 2016 childcare regulation floor space requirements by child/age. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460312

• 23 Apr 2024N/a

  permission to raise our capacity by 17 children, accordingly to 2016 childcare regulation floor space requirements by child/age.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460278

• 24 Jan 2024N/a

  a horse walker and lunging ring

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2424

• 2 Jan 2024Conditional

  Full planning permission for the construction of (A) 67 No dwellings comprising 2no. 4-Bed semi-detached units, 34no. 3-Bed detached/semi-detached units; 23no. 2-bed semi-detached/terraced units; and 8no. 1-Bed maisonette apartment units; together with new garden boundary walls and connection to existing site services; (B) a temporary pumping station facility; and (C) all associated site works at Brackinrainey Wood, Longwood, Co. Meath. Access to new dwellings will be via the existing residential access road within Brackinrainey Wood Estate. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 62 homes · Meath County Council, 2460008

• 14 Dec 2023Refused

  The proposed development will consist of the construction of a mixed-use development within the curtilage of protected structure Ref. no. MH047-209 (NIAH Ref. 14331010) at St. Fintina’s, Main Street, Longwood, Co. Meath. The works will comprise the demolition of existing retail buildings, associated outbuildings and garden walls (449sqm) to facilitate the construction of; (A) a 2-storey retail unit and associated store/office (106sqm); (B) 8 no. 2-bed two-storey sheltered housing units (unit types A1, B1, B2, D1, D2); (C) 5 no. 3-bed three-storey dwellings (unit types C1, C2, C3); (D) communal public open space area (470 sqm); (E) all associated and ancillary site and development works, services infrastructure, landscaping, public lighting, internal access roads and footpaths. The works will also involve the demolition and reinstatement of an existing outbuilding attached to the rear of protected structure Ref. no. MH047-209 (NIAH Ref. 14331010). Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360474

• 6 Dec 2023N/a

  the proposed development will consist of the construction of a mixed-use development within the curtilage of protected structure Ref. no. MH047-209 (NIAH Ref. 14331010). The works will comprise the demolition of existing retail buildings, associated outbuildings and garden walls (449sqm) to facilitate the construction of; (A) a 2-storey retail unit and associated store/office (106sqm); (B) 8 no. 2-bed two-storey sheltered housing units (unit types A1, B1, B2, D1, D2); (C) 5 no. 3-bed three-storey dwellings (unit types C1, C2, C3); (D) communal public open space area (470 sqm); (E) all associated and ancillary site and development works, services infrastructure, landscaping, public lighting, internal access roads and footpaths

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360447

• 21 Sept 2023Conditional

  4 no. 4 bed semi-detached two storey dwellings and 2 no. 4 bed detached two storey dwellings (total 6 no), new entrance and access roadway off St. Oliver's Road with turning area, associated paths and public amenity area. The development also includes the installation of a temporary BAF secondary wastewater treatment system to serve the development on site with connection to mains sewer, surface water attenuation system, new boundary walls, new set back wall fronting St. Oliver's Road previously granted permission under planning reference no. TA/190986 and connection to all mains services together with all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 6 homes · Meath County Council, 23916

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  single storey extension to side and rear of dwelling, demolish shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2360172

• 19 Jul 2023Conditional

  Planning permission is being sought to complete demolition of the existing dwelling and the construction of a two-storey dwelling and detached domestic garage, including connection to public services, upgrade of existing site entrance to include new gates and piers and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360168

• 20 Jun 2023Refused

  the construction of (A) 67 no. dwellings comprising 2 no. 4 bed semi-detached units, 34 no. 3 bed detached/semi-detached units, 23 no. 2 bed semi-detached/terraced units and 8 no. 1 bed maisonette apartment units together with new garden boundary walls and connection to existing site services, (B) a temporary pumping station facility and (C) all associated site works. Access to new dwellings will be via the existing residential access road within Brackinrainey Wood Estate. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 67 homes · Meath County Council, 23627

• 12 Jun 2023N/a

  the construction of (A) 67 no. dwellings comprising 2 no. 4 bed semi-detached units, 34 no. 3 bed detached/semi-detached units, 23 no. 2 bed semi-detached/terraced units and 8 no. 1 bed maisonette apartment units together with new garden boundary walls and connection to existing site services, (B) a temporary pumping station facility and (C) all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23612

• 17 Apr 2023Refused

  an extension to the first floor to rear of the existing dwelling, with installation of 1no. velux window to front of existing house and widening of the existing driveway to facilitate two family cars and all associated site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23415

• 13 Jan 2023Refused

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION PLANNING REF NO: TA/171068 - planning permission on part of already approved site (Planning Permisison An Bord Pleanala PL 17.218686 & Meath Co. Co. Reg. Ref. TA/60181). 25 - 78 incl. Brackinrainey Wood, Longwood, Co. Meath. Construction of 54 no. dwellings comprising 26 no. 3 bedroom two storey semi-detached dwellings (Type CS) and 28 no. 4 bedroom two storey semi-detached dwellings (Type BS) and all associated works on serviced sites constructed under An Bord Pleanala PL 17.218686 (Reg. Ref. TA/60181) with vehicular and pedestrian access from existing internal estate road all on subject site of circa 3.0 Ha/7.41Ac. This development will result in a total number of 79 units within Brackinrainey Wood (a reduction of 1 no. unit from that previously approved under An Bord Pleanala PL 17.218686 (Reg. Ref. TA/60181)

  Extension of duration · Meath County Council, 2322

The 25 most recent of 69 applications.

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 Longwood.

Architectural heritage

• Longwood Garda Síochána Station, house, 1900–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former house, built c.1920, now in use as a Garda station. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystack. Rendered walls. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Rendered and stone outbuildings with pitched slate roofs to rear.

• P.J. Dargan, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with two-storey return. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins. Timber sash windows and timber display window with stone sills. Wrought-iron window guards to ground floor.

• P.J. Dargan, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former pair of three- and two-bay two-storey houses, built c.1880, now in use as five-bay detached house and public house. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins and timber fascia. Timber sash windows and display window with stone sills. Timber battened doors. Single-storey outbuilding with corrugated-iron roof to site.

• Catholic Church of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted church, built 1841. Three-bay side elevations to nave, with porch to north-east, and canted bay chancel and sacristy to the south-west. Pitched slate roof with ashlar bellcote and castellations to the north-east gable. Rendered walls with date plaque. Pointed arch openings to nave and chancel with stained glass windows. Pointed arch, Tudor arch and trefoil openings to north-eastern gable with tracery and stained glass. Timber double doors set in shoulder-headed opening. Interior is remodelled. Ashlar stone piers with cast-iron double gates and railings.

• Saint Mary's Cemetery, graveyard/cemetery, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Roman Catholic cemetery, established c.1920, with a variety of twentieth-century grave markers. Shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary to south-western end. Cast-iron railings with stone gate piers, cast-iron gates and decorative cast- and wrought-iron arch.

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, with two-storey return. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls to ground floor, roughcast rendered to first floor, with string course and rendered quoins. Timber sash windows with stone sills and rendered surrounds. Round-arched moulded timber doorcase, with timber architrave supported on console brackets. Two-storey stone outbuilding to rear with pitched slate roof.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with two-storey return. Formerly in use as parochial house. Gabled full-height porch addition, c.1920. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with exposed stone quoins. Rendered surrounds to window openings. Oval openings to breakfront with cast-iron windows. Segmental-arched door opening. Polychromatic tiles to porch interior. Two-storey flat-roofed extension. Stone and rendered outbuildings to rear. Cast-iron railings to site.

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 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2441 (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.

• Longwood, Enfield8 sales

Name

Longwood · Maigh Dearmhaí

Area

3,387,767 m² (338.78 ha, 837.14 acres)

Civil parish

Clonard, and its townlands

Barony

Moyfenrath Upper

Electoral division

Castlerickard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlerickard electoral division: 2,247 people in 694 households; 85% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballin, Ballyclare, Boolykeagh, Clonguiffin, Derrinlig, Freagh, Middleborough, Moneymore, Moyvally (Co. Kildare)

Placenames

Longwood 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.