Ranaghan

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ranaghan, from 149 m² to 556,425 m² (55.64 ha, 137.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ranaghan 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.

• 8 Jun 2026N/a

  proposed construction of a club house to include toilet facilities, installation of a suitable on site sewerage treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660180

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  proposed construction of extension to existing house and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21195

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 Ranaghan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ranaghan.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch hump-backed railway bridge, built c. 1856, carrying small road over former railway line (Inny Junction to Cavan line). Railway line now dismantled, arch now used as storage area. Gently curved elliptical-headed arch. Deck supported on brick jack vaults resting on six steel girders. Roughly dressed snecked rock-faced limestone masonry walls, battered to base. Arch flanked to either side (east and west) by projecting limestone piers. Chamfered dressed limestone string course at road level, continuing across projecting piers. Dressed limestone coping to parapet (with chamfered edge to outer faces), pyramidal-shaped dressed limestone capstones over projecting piers. Bridge flanked to either side by squared rubble limestone wing walls. Located to the southeast of Abbeylara, and to the south of Ballywillin Railway Station (13401105).

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 Ranaghan, about 1 in 20 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 Ranaghan.

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

Name

Ranaghan · Raithneachán

Area

1,117,731 m² (111.77 ha, 276.2 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeylara, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Abbeylara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

351 people lived in 137 households in the Abbeylara electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeylara, Cloonaghmore, Coolcraff, Cooldoney, Ranaghanbaun, Tonymore South

Placenames

Ranaghan 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.