Firmount

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Firmount, from 318 m² to 97,349 m² (9.73 ha, 24.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Firmount 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.

• 28 Nov 2024Conditional

  two underground slatted storage tanks and all associated ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2460284

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 Firmount.

Recorded monuments

• LF015-030 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  On a NW-SE ridge in pasture. Not marked on any ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised subrectangular area (31m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) defined by a low scarp (0.1-0.35m). From ESE-S-SW there is a wide, shallow fosse (Wth 2.2-3m) at the foot of the scarp. Elsewhere the scarp has been largely levelled and the fosse infilled. There are three large, mature trees on the platform. This is probably a tree-ring associated with the landscaping for the former 'Lissard House' c. 550m to SW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF015-075 Church
  Description

  In level pasture. Indicated on Beaufort's map of Ireland dating from 1792 (Mason 1816, vol. 2, 50) and depicted on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an unroofed rectangular structure, aligned NE-SW, named ‘Church’. In 1838 it was recorded that only part of the ‘chapel … still remain at Firmount' (Fraser 1838, 317). No visible surface trace survives. The field is known locally as the 'Church Field'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

Architectural heritage

• Firmount House, steward's house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house associated with Firmount House (now demolished), built c. 1860, having full-width slated lean-to to rear (northwest). Possibly formerly in use as a steward’s house associated with Firmount House to the southeast (now demolished). Now in use as private house. Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to upper storey, painted smooth rendered walls to lower storey, with render channelled platband between floors and quoins to the corners at first floor level. Smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows. Central round-headed door opening with moulded render surround, replacement door and plain overlight. Set back from road in own grounds to the north of Edgeworthstown. Main gateway to the south comprising a pair of gate piers (on square-plan) having moulded capstones with pineapple finials over, and with a pair of hooped wrought-iron flat bar gates. Gateway flanked to either side by curved sections of roughcast rendered boundary wall with crenellated stone coping over. Complex of multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to the rear (northwest) having hipped slate roofs and roughcast rendered finish over rubble stone construction. Red brick chimneystack to the southeast gable end of outbuilding to the northeast of yard. Square-headed window openings at ground floor level having cut stone sills, majority of openings now blocked up. Cast-iron latticed paned window fittings to one opening to the northeast outbuilding. Round window openings at first floor levels. Some loop hole openings. Round openings to upper floors. Square-headed doorways having roughly dressed limestone voussoirs and timber battened doors. Door openings to outbuilding to the west side of yard now mostly blocked. Cut limestone gate pier (on square-plan) to the northwest end of outbuilding to the northeast having wrought-iron flat bar gate. Entrance to rear yard to the northeast side of house having wrought-iron gate Rubble stone and wrought-iron gates to rear yard.

• Lissard House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, erected c.1860, comprising a pair of limestone ashlar piers having stepped capstones supporting pair of cast-iron gates. Gateway flanked on either side by roughly dressed rubble limestone quadrants terminating in limestone ashlar piers having stepped capstones. Wall-mounted post box. Altered and extended single-storey gate lodge.

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 Firmount, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Firmount · Coill na mBodach

Area

658,601 m² (65.86 ha, 162.74 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbroney, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Knockanbaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

188 people lived in 61 households in the Knockanbaun electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Killinawas, Lismagoneen, Lissard, Rinvanny

Placenames

Firmount 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.