Toneen

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toneen, from 414 m² to 21,946 m² (2.19 ha, 5.42 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Toneen 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.

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  for proposed slatted shed and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1863

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 Toneen.

Recorded monuments

• LF011-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a shelf of level ground on an ENE-facing slope. A raised circular area (57m N-S; 54m E-W) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 4-5.6m; H 0.5-1.2m) with an external fosse (Wth c. 8.5m; D 0.3-0.7m) that has been infilled from WNW-N-SE. At the inner base of the bank at S is a drainage ditch. A wide break (Wth 11m) in the bank at ENE probably marks the sector in which the original entrance was located. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 18 January 2012

• LF011-082 Earthwork
  Description

  In grassland. Cropmark of circular-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 60m) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth orthoimage and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 216/03/2021 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 11 July 2022

Architectural heritage

• Toneen Lodge, outbuilding, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to the rear (northwest) of Toneen Lodge (13401109), built c. 1880, comprising multiple-bay single-storey stable block to the southwest, six-bay two-storey block to the northwest, and a four-bay single-storey stable block to the northeast. Cast-iron plaque to two-storey block having shamrock motif, raised lettering reading ‘National’, and date ‘1829’. Hipped natural slate roof to two-storey block, pitched slate roofs to single-storey blocks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick chimneystack to the southwest range. Roughcast rendered finish over rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings to two-storey block with limestone sills and timber louvered vents. Square-headed doorways and loading bays with battened timber doors. Segmental-headed carriage arch to the southwest end. Square-headed window openings to single-storey blocks having metal fittings. Square-headed door openings with timber battened and metal half-doors. Entrance to courtyard to the southeast corner of complex. Located to the northwest of Toneen Lodge (13401109), and to the southeast of Granard.

• Toneen Lodge, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1880, having two-storey return to the rear (northwest), canted bay window to southwest elevation, single-storey lean-to extension to northeast elevation, and two-storey extension to the rear (northwest). Single-bay entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (southeast) having flat roof with moulded render cornice and having render strips to the corners. Hipped natural slate roof with two rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with painted quoins. Square-headed window openings with three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor openings, all with painted limestone sills. Four-over-four and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to canted bay window, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to side elevations of porch (northeast and southwest). Square-headed door opening to front face of porch (southeast) with replacement door, having glazed overlight and sidelights. Set back from road in mature grounds to the southeast of Granard with complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings (13401108) arranged around a courtyard to the rear (northwest). Main gateway to the southeast of house comprising a pair of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) with stepped capstones over, and having hooped wrought-iron double gates. Main gateway flanked to either side by sections of rendered boundary wall that are terminated by rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having ashlar limestone capstones over. Gateway to the northwest of site having tooled limestone gate posts and a pair of hooped wrought-iron gates.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Toneen · An Tóin Fhionn

Area

736,567 m² (73.66 ha, 182.01 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Firry, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Aghabrack, Killasona, Rincoolagh, Rinroe, Robinstown

Placenames

Toneen 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.