Rabbitpark

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rabbitpark, from 492 m² to 129,374 m² (12.94 ha, 31.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Rabbitpark 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.

• 14 Aug 2026N/a

  the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660256

• 16 Dec 2025Conditional

  proposed two storey dwelling with detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560300

• 18 Apr 2019Conditional

  proposed construction of a storey and a half type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite sewerage system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19106

• 13 Apr 2018Conditional

  for the following; (A) Proposed erection of a Roof Structure over existing open yard to the front of existing four bay Single Slatted Shed, (B) Proposed construction of a two bay Lean-to-extension to the rear of existing four bay Single Slatted Shed consisting of a Dry Bedded Area, (C) Proposed covered Race to the side of existing Four Bay Single Slatted Shed, (D) Proposed construction of an Un-roofed Manure Pit to the rear of existing Four Bay Single Slatted Shed, (E) Proposed construction of a silage base with associated Safety Barriers and Gates, (F) Proposed erection of Barriers, Gates & Walls and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1871

• 31 Aug 2017Conditional

  construction of part single-storey, part two-storey dwelling house with detached garage, well, wastewater treatment system and associated site works, reinstatement of former access road, new entrance gates and boundary fence/wall, and ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17229

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: Derrymore Bog 000447

Recorded monuments

• LF019-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 27m) defined by a low scarp (H 0.5m) from S-W-NE. From NE-ENE, although levelled, the outline of the perimeter is still identifiable but from E-SE-S no visible surface traces survive. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded areas of outcropping rock within the interior at NW and E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron wall-mounted post box, erected c. 1940, having 'P&T' (Department of Posts and Telegraphs) in Gaelic script cipher to head and 'W. T. Allen and Company of London' foundry mark to base. Set in roughly coursed limestone boundary wall outside Laughil National School (13401925), now derelict, and to the northeast of Ardagh.

• Saint Brigid's National School, school, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey former national school, built c. 1937, having gable-fronted two-bay single-storey projection to rear (north) having entrances to side elevations. Now disused. Pitched natural slate roofs with metal roof vent and cast-iron rainwater goods. Slightly projecting red brick chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west) partially supported on brick cobbled course. Smooth rendered walls with carved limestone name and date plaque to front façade (south). Square-headed window openings with remains of six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and rendered sills. Four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to north face of rear porch projection. Square-headed door openings to side elevations of rear porch having timber battened doors. Set back from road in own grounds to the northwest of Ardagh. Rubble and coursed limestone boundary wall with cement coping over to road-frontage (south) and rubble stone wall to the rear (north) dividing enclosed area into two separate yards. Main entrance gateway to the south comprising a pair of coursed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone coping over and a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Low rubble stone boundary walls to the west wend of boundary wall to road frontage having wrought-iron railings over. Cast-iron post box (13401903) built into boundary wall.

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 Rabbitpark, 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 Rabbitpark.

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

Name

Rabbitpark · Páirc na gCoiníní

Area

908,126 m² (90.81 ha, 224.4 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Ardagh West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

509 people lived in 173 households in the Ardagh West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghintemple, Clooncaulfield, Drumlougher, Grillagh, Killinlastra, Laughil

Placenames

Rabbitpark 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.