Churchquarter

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Churchquarter, from 19 m² to 41,465 m² (4.15 ha, 10.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 50 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Open space, park)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Industrial/Commercial/Warehousing (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Industrial/Commercial/Warehousing (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 29 Jul 2026Conditional

  to make alterations to the protected structure including reinstating windows, demolishing small sections of the external walls, creating a new window, construction of new roofs and the construction of a new single storey extension along with a new site entrance with new mains water and grey water connections and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660239

• 1 Dec 2025Refused

  to make alternations to the protected structure including reinstating windows, creating a new window, construction of new roofs and the construction of a new single storey extension along with new mains water and grey water connections and all ancillary site development. This further Information makes alterations to the original application, including; revised site entrance, retaining site boundaries, reduced demolition of existing structure, revised window design & proportions and changes in proposed external materials

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560282

• 12 Apr 2024Unconditional

  of 19/185 - proposed construction of a residential development consisting of 13 no. dwelling houses consisting of: 10 no. three bedroom two storey terrace type dwelling houses of which they are two different designs, 2 no two bedroom bungalow semi-detached type dwelling houses, 1 no. two bedroom bungalow detached type dwelling house, entrance, access road, boundary fences/walls, associated car parking, green open space, connections into existing foul sewer, surface water & watermain networks and all ancillary works all of which are similar in design to a previously permitted residential development that was granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL08/518 on the same site to which this application relates

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2420

• 6 Sept 2023Conditional

  development will consist of: A) Demolition of the existing building, associated car park and boundary walls on site, B) Construction of a single storey discount foodstore (to include off-licence use) with a gross floor area of c. 1,842 sqm (net retail area 1,316 sqm.); C) Vehicular/pedestrian access from Barrack Lane; D) 110 no. car parking spaces and 20 no. bicycle spaces; E) Erection of an internally illuminated, double sided, free standing, identification pole sign located adjacent to the proposed access to the site; 2 no. internally illuminated gable signs, F) a single storey ESB substation and switchroom c. 21 sqm; G) All landscaping, loading bay at northern elevation, lighting, boundary treatments, retaining walls, plant area, solar panels at roof level, engineering and site development works to facilitate the development

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360125

• 10 Jul 2019Conditional

  proposed construction of a residential development consisting of 13 no. dwelling houses consisting of: 10 no. three bedroom two storey terrace type dwelling houses of which they are two different designs, 2 no two bedroom bungalow semi-detached type dwelling houses, 1 no. two bedroom bungalow detached type dwelling house, entrance, access road, boundary fences/walls, associated car parking, green open space, connections into existing foul sewer, surface water & watermain networks and all ancillary works all of which are similar in design to a previously permitted residential development that was granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL08/518 on the same site to which this application relates

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19185

• 14 Feb 2018Refused

  for the proposed construction of a Residential Development consisting of 17 No. Dwelling Houses of which there are 10 No. Three Bedroom Two Storey Terrace Type Dwelling Houses of which there are two different designs and 7 No. Two Bedroom Bungalow Terrace Type Dwelling Houses of which there are two different designs, Entrance, Access Road, Boundary Fences/Walls, Associated Car Parking, Green Open Space, Connections Into Existing Foul Sewer, Surface Water and Watermain networks and all ancillary works all of which are identical in design to a previously permitted Residential Development that was granted Full Planning Permission under Planning Reference number PL08/518 on the same site to which this application relates

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1825

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 Churchquarter.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Churchquarter.

Architectural heritage

• Fernmount, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, having two full-height canted bays to front elevation (east) flanking main entrance, two-storey extension to north elevation and return to rear (west). Hipped and pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered string and eaves courses and recessed square-headed panels to canted bays. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills, replacement windows to end-bay/extension to north. Round-headed window opening to rear (west) with six-over-six timber sliding sash window having intersecting joinery to head. Round-headed door opening to front elevation (east) with glazed fanlight over timber panelled door and having flight of concrete steps to entrance. Multiple-bay single-storey rubble limestone masonry outbuildings to rear (west and northwest), having pitched slate roofs. Set back from road in mature grounds to the west of Granard. Pair of cast-iron gate piers with anthemion motifs and double leaf wrought and cast-iron gates with hooped heads to entrance.

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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Churchquarter · Ceathrú an Teampaill

Area

173,240 m² (17.32 ha, 42.81 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Granard Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Granard Urban electoral division: 1,268 people in 494 households; 47% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balnagall, Granard, Granardkill, Mullingee

Placenames

Churchquarter 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.