Toome

120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toome, from 24 m² to 129,123 m² (12.91 ha, 31.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Toome 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.

• 26 Jun 2026Conditional

  for a residential development comprising: (A) the refurbishment of existing derelict dwelling; (B) the refurbishment of existing collapsed extension to the side of the dwelling, (C) new extension to the rear of the dwelling and (D) all associated site works including a new proprietary wastewater treatment system with attenuation layer and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660352

• 6 Apr 2023Conditional

  the following: (A) Retention and completion of existing partially completed building which was formerly used as a dwelling. (B) Installation of a wastewater sewerage system with suitable polishing filter and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2367

• 27 Oct 2022Conditional

  a single storied dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, installing a proprietary water waste treatment unit and percolation area and to make a new entrance onto the road along with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 22251

• 1 Jun 2022Conditional

  the A) demolition of existing outbuildings, B) Renovation and extension to existing single storey cottage type dwelling house to include a two storey extension and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22131

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  retention permission (previous Ref. No. 06/485) of an existing development at this site. The development consists of an existing 15 metre telecommunications support structure, antennas and associated equipment within a fenced compound and access track. The development forms part of Vodafone Ireland Ltd's existing GSM and 3G Broadband telecommunications network

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18303

• 19 Sept 2018Conditional

  to construct a dormer type dwelling house sewage treatment plant and percolation area and detached garage for domestic use only and attached ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18202

• 26 Apr 2018Refused

  construct a dormer type dwelling house, sewage treatment plant and percolation area and detached garage for domestic use only and attached ancillary site works.

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1884

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: Lough Gowna 000992

Recorded monuments

• LF006-015 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture. Named 'Cave' on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 6 September 2011

• LF006-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture on the summit of an elongated hill. The ground falls steeply c. 25m to the W into a NW–SE valley. Raised circular area (int. diam. 28m E–W; 26.2m N–S) defined by a well-preserved earthen bank with an external fosse. The bank (Wth 10m at N; 8m at S; int. H 1.8m at N; 1.5m at S; ext. H 3m at N; 2.8m at S) is compact and substantial. The top (Wth 1.5–2m) is slightly flattened from where the sides slope steeply, almost vertically in parts. The fosse (Wth 4m at N; c. 3–3.5m at S; ext. D 1.2m at N) is deeply cut with a broad, flat waterlogged base. From NNW–SE its outer edge is almost vertically cut and there is no trace of an external bank, except possibly for a slight rise flanking the N side of the entrance gap (Wth c. 3m) at ESE. From SE–NW a relatively narrow earthen bank (W 1.2m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.7m at S), with an almost vertical inner face, defines its outer edge. It respects the curve of the rath but at NW and SE appears to merge indistinguishably with field banks that continue beyond the rath. It appears to be a later field bank, though it is possible that it is a modified primary external bank. The interior of the rath slopes down very slightly from W towards the entrance gap. At this gap there is a suggestion of a causeway across the fosse but it is poorly defined. The rath is densely ringed with overgrowth. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 January 2013

• LF006-025001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Within a hollow in undulating pasture. In 1909 a series of fourteen stations were constructed around this well in accordance with the wishes of the Rev. Laurance Cosgrove of St Paul, Minnesota, USA (ITA Survey 1944). They were removed in the mid-1970s (local information). Patterns are held here annually on St Patrick's Day, the 17th of March. This spring well is within a subrectangular setting (1.3m ENE-WSW; 1.23m NNW-SSE), which is defined by a low drystone wall (H 0.6m; Wth 1.3m). At NNW a flat slab acts as a bridge where a stream emanates from the well and flows in a NW direction. A concrete platform has been constructed on the NW side in recent times. Also on this side a holy stone (LF006-025002-) has been concreted to the well. A holy tree (LF006-025003-) immediately to the SE is associated. (Ó Duigneáin 1971, 115-17; O'Donovan 2002, 30) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

• LF006-025002 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  Associated with a holy well (LF006-025001-). An irregularly shaped boulder (H 0.18m; 0.5m x 0.47m) is concreted into the NW side of the well. It contains two small circular depressions (diam c. 0.15m; D 0.05m; diam. c. 0.1m; D 0.04m) which, according to local tradition, mark the imprints of St Patrick's knees. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

• LF006-025003 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  Associated with a holy well (LF006-025001-), which lies immediately to its NW. A number of rags are tied to this low hawthorn tree. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toome.

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 Toome, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Toome · Tuaim

Area

2,340,839 m² (234.08 ha, 578.43 acres)

Civil parish

Columbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Mullanalaghta, the unit of the census

Census 2022

320 people lived in 109 households in the Mullanalaghta electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloncovet (Co. Cavan), Corbaun or Leitrim, Kilmore

Placenames

Toome 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.