Banghill

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Banghill, from 929 m² to 162,834 m² (16.28 ha, 40.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 6 Mar 2024Conditional

  a single storey extension to an existing bungalow type dwelling, alterations to front elevation, internal and external alterations to dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460039

• 7 Oct 2022Conditional

  the proposed construction of a single storey extension to side of existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22237

• 23 Oct 2020Conditional

  of existing external finishes servicing existing dormer type dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 20243

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 Banghill.

Recorded monuments

• LF019-073 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On a WSW-facing slope, within a tree plantation. A spring well, dedicated to St Brigid, is within an oval-shaped surround (1.9m ENE-WSW; 1.72m NNW-SSE) defined by a stone wall (H 0.1-0.3m; Wth 0.35m). The top of the wall is level but is punctuated at regular intervals by a series of sixteen small slabs set on edge. Concrete has been applied to the internal face of the wall (H c. 1.2m) and to a lesser extent to the upper portion of the external face. A break in the wall at SW, with a kneeling place, marks the entrance. There is a holy tree (LF019-073001-) c. 1m to the SW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

• LF019-073001 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  Circa 1m to the SW of a holy well (LF019-073----). Many small pieces of cloth have been tied to the branches of this thorn tree. A small number of stones have been built up at its base. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 5 June 2013

Architectural heritage

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

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, with single-storey addition and lean-to extension to rear. Shopfront to the centre of the front façade (north) and now also in use as public house. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered lined-and-ruled walls over smooth rend, painted roughcast to east gable and rear upper floor. Painted quoins and plinth. Unpainted roughcast rendered walls to addition. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and replacement windows, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to east elevation. Timber pubfront with moulded box cornice, fascia board with hand painted sign, and pilasters with fluting to bases and plinth blocks. Painted render panelled stall riser. Square-headed openings, display window with fixed timber frame. Timber panelled double leaf entrance door, with overlight having hand painted lettering. Timber battened door to addition. Fronts directly onto the road, with yards to east and west, with landscaped garden and yard to rear. Located in the centre of Ardagh.

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

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, with separate entrance to dwelling and two-storey addition to rear (south). In use as public house, post office and shop. Pitched slate roofs with overhanging eaves, three rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end and one offset to the centre of the front pitch) and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast walls to front elevation, with painted quoins and plinth, painted rendered lined-and ruled walls elsewhere. Square-headed window openings with painted sills, painted render surrounds to front elevation. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Late-twentieth century timber shopfront with moulded cornice, fascia, fluted pilasters with plinth blocks, and painted render panelled stall riser. Square-headed openings with fixed timber frame display windows. Timber battened double leaf door with large overlight having leaded stained glass. Square-headed entrance opening to dwelling, with painted render surround, timber battened door, with leaded stained glass to overlight. Yard to front. Located in the centre of Ardagh.

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

At the centre of the townland of Banghill, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Banghill.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Banghill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Banghill · Bogchoill

Area

193,121 m² (19.31 ha, 47.72 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Ardagh East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

730 people lived in 265 households in the Ardagh East electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh Demesne, Ballygar, Lyanmore, Moor

Placenames

Banghill 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.