Mountjessop

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountjessop, from 2,375 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 457,341 m² (45.73 ha, 113.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Mountjessop 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Mountjessop in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Mount Jessop Bog SAC 002202
• Natural Heritage Area: Mount Jessop Bog NHA 001450

Recorded monuments

• LF018-014 Enclosure
  Description

  In wet, low-lying pasture adjacent to a stream. Depicted as a large, roughly subtriangular enclosure with the designation ‘Fort’ on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The bank was planted with trees. It comprises an irregularly shaped raised area (c. 95m NNE–SSW; c. 72m WNW–ESE) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.7m; H 0.2-1m), an intervening fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 0.9m) and outer bank (Wth 4.5m; H 0.9m). The original entrance is not recognisable. The internal ground level is uneven. The monument is almost totally levelled and is very densely overgrown with vegetation rendering satisfactory inspection impossible. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 4 February 2012

Architectural heritage

• Mount Jessop, outbuilding, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of outbuildings associated with Mount Jessop House (now demolished), built c. 1860, comprising a detached seven-bay two-storey outbuilding to the southeast and a detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding adjacent to the northwest. Pitched natural slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods; cut stone eaves course and rubble stone chimneystacks to two-storey outbuilding. Roughly dressed and squared limestone construction to two-storey building; roughcast rendered rubble limestone walls to single-storey outbuilding. Roughcast rendered finish to rear elevation (southwest) of two-storey building. Square-headed window openings to two-storey outbuilding having tooled cut limestone sills. Paired segmental-headed carriage arch openings to centre of two-storey outbuilding having flush dressed limestone voussoirs and double leaf timber battened doors. Square-headed door openings having flush dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds, one retaining timber battened door. Segmental-headed carriage arch opening to single-storey outbuilding having double leaf timber battened doors. Located to the rear (southwest) of site of Mount Jessop House (demolished). Gateway to the northwest end of single-storey outbuilding comprising a pair of roughly dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone capstones and a pair of modern steel gates with corrugated-metal sheeting. Integral square-headed pedestrian gateway adjacent to northwest, set in rubble stone boundary wall, having modern gate. Ruinous single-storey rubble stone outbuilding to northeast end of rubble stone wall. Rubble stone boundary walls to the northwest and northeast of yard, running towards site of house. Set well back from road in extensive mature grounds to the east of Killashee and to the west/northwest 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

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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mountjessop · Cluain Riain

Area

1,059,765 m² (105.98 ha, 261.87 acres)

Civil parish

Moydow, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Moydow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

802 people lived in 268 households in the Moydow electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawn, Cloonevit, Cloonkeen, Cordivin, Curry, Dunbeggan, Lisgurry

Placenames

Mountjessop 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.