Prucklishtown

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Prucklishtown, from 609 m² to 123,928 m² (12.39 ha, 30.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Prucklishtown 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.

• 11 Sept 2026N/a

  the proposed construction of a two storey 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, 2660285

• 7 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct a porch to the front of existing dwelling house and to construct a detached lean-to style indoor pool house. Retention permission is also sought for 2nr out buildings and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2192

• 11 Jun 2020N/a

  to construct a porch to the front of existing dwelling house and to construct a detached lean-to style equipment storage shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20125

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 Prucklishtown.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-092 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised D-shaped area (33m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE), with a straight E side, enclosed from ESE-W-NNE by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.5-4.3m; H 0.6-1.1m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.35m). An external fosse (Wth 5.5m; D 1-1.8m) is visible from S-SW-W. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• LF010-098 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low drumlin hill in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.8-4.3m; H 0.2-0.95m) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 7m; D 0.3m), which is identifiable only at S. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded traces of a possible outer bank at N. The original entrance is not recognisable Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Cloonfin House, bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over tributary of Camlin River, built c. 1860. Segmental-headed arch with rock-faced voussoirs and having squared rubble stone construction to abutments and barrel. Dressed coursed squared rock-faced ,masonry construction to spandrel walls. Coursed rock-faced parapets with dressed limestone coping over. Parapet walls curve outwards (away from road) to either side with dressed rock-faced piers (on square-plan) to either side having dressed capstones over. Pier to the southwest end of parapet to the west now collapsed. Located along approach avenue to Cloonfin/Clonfin House (demolished). Located to the southwest of Granard.

• Cloonfin House, gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1820 and altered c. 1850, having canted front façade (northeast). Formerly associated with Cloonfin/Clonfin House (now demolished). Now disused. Hipped natural slate roof, now partially collapsed. Roughly coursed dressed limestone walls with remnants of roughcast render remaining. Pointed arch window openings with dressed limestone voussoirs and tooled cut limestone sills, original fittings now gone. Square-headed door opening to centre of canted front elevation, fittings now gone. Setback from road in own grounds to the southwest of Granard. Located across the road to the southwest from former entrance and approach avenue serving Cloonfin/Clonfin House (now demolish).

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 Prucklishtown, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Prucklishtown · Prochlaiseán

Area

726,233 m² (72.62 ha, 179.46 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbroney, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Ballinalee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

648 people lived in 253 households in the Ballinalee electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynascraw, Clonbroney, Cloonfin, Graffoge, Laughil (Edgeworth)

Placenames

Prucklishtown 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.