Mosstown

99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mosstown, from 12 m² to 344,119 m² (34.41 ha, 85.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S4Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (General public administration)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S1Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Education)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Open space, park)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 31 Oct 2024Conditional

  the erection of a 3m extension to the existing 20m monopole with 1m extension to support 3 no. new telecommunications antennae together with 1 no. 0.6m dish, remote radio units, 1 no. RBS cabinet, 1 no. future cabinet and all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2452

• 20 Mar 2024Conditional

  to refurbish and erect an extension to existing dwelling house, and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2415

• 14 Mar 2024Conditional

  proposed redesign of a previously permitted residential development consisting of 5 no. dwelling houses granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL20/302 whereby it is now proposed to revise the proposed layout to include for a total of 6 no. three bedroom two storey semi-detached type dwelling houses of which there are two different designs, boundary fences/walls, entrance, access road, car parking, connections to the existing foul sewer, surface water & watermain networks and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 6 homes · Longford County Council, 2460050

• 9 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of 5 no. houses comprising of 3 no. 2-storey 3 bedroom semi-detached houses: 1 no. 4 bedroom 2 storey semi detached house and 1 no. 4 bedroom 2 storey detached house. The development provides for associated site services, site works and private gardens: public open space and a new vehicular access road off the R397 main road into Keenagh providing 10 number in-curtilage car parking spaces

  Permission, 5 homes · Longford County Council, 20302

• 20 Dec 2019N/a

  development at this site of 0.27 hectares at Tailors Lawn, Keenagh, Co Longford. The development will consist of the construction of 7 no. houses comprising of 6 no. 3-storey, 4 bedroom semi-detached houses; and 1 no. 4 bedroom 2 storey detached house. The development provides for associated site services, site works and private gardens; public open space and a new vehicular access road off the R397 main road into Keenagh providing 14 number on street car parking spaces

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19331

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: Royal Canal 002103
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Bawn 001819

Recorded monuments

• LF022-005 Standing stone
  Description

  In undulating meadowland. A 'Standing Stone' is indicated at this location on the OS Fair Plan but it is not represented on subsequent OS 6-inch maps. No visible remains. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 14 November 2011

• LF022-006 Dovecote
  Description

  Detached three-storey former dovecote on octagonal-plan, built c. 1750. Formerly associated with Mosstown House (demolished) and now disused. Octagonal-profile hipped artificial slate roof with metal weather vane over lantern and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over roughly coursed limestone construction with raised block-and-start detailing/quoins and with rendered string course above ground floor. Blind ocului to second floor. Blind round-headed openings to first floor. Blind square-headed openings with limestone voussoirs visible under render to ground floor. Square-headed door opening with limestone threshold and limestone voussoirs visible under render to ground floor. Domed brick roof to ground floor interior. Set within grounds of Mosstown Demesne. Located to the east of the site of Mosstown House and to the west of Keenagh (www.buildingsofireland. Last accessed 3 July 2012). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 3 July 2012

• LF022-052001 House - 17th century
  Description

  In pastureland. Described by Bence-Jones (1990, 211) as a 'double gable-ended C17 house, of 2 storeys with a dormered attic in the high-pitched roof. Long 11 bay entrance front; doorway with blocking not central; massive chimneystacks. Tower-like building at back. Tall octagon, probably a dovecot' (see LF022-006----). The house contained some fine 17th century features including a a carved wooden staircase; see attached image with detail from same. The house was demolished in 1962 (Egan 1999, vol. 1, 62) and is not visible at ground level. (Flynn 2009, 48-9) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 July 2012

• LF022-052003 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  A castle is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Moydow barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.28) in the townland of ‘Dowclone’, which roughly corresponds to Mosstown demesne. In 1619 King James I granted William Mc Brian Murtagh ‘the castle and town or cartron of Donclone’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 450). The castle is listed again, in 1636, in the inquisition into the property of William following his death. He also possessed another ‘ruinous castle’ (LF018-006001-) in Ballyknock (Anon. 1826, Inq. 17 Car 1). Bence-Jones (1990, 211) refers to a ‘Tower-like building’ at the back of Mosstown House (LF022-052001-), which suggests the possibility that the castle was incorporated into the later house. However, the house was destroyed in 1962 and no visible surface traces of it or the castle survive. (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 65) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 November 2012

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay four-storey former flour mill on L-shaped plan, built c. 1800, now disused. Roof now collapsed. Roughcast rendered roughly coursed limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills. Square-headed door openings. Machinery now removed. Set at a bend in the road at the north end of a mill complex incorporating millrace to the west of site and interconnecting millponds to south. Tooled carved monolithic limestone gate pier to east of site. Former bathing house at edge of millpond to south of site, of roughly coursed limestone construction and having cast-iron boat rings to pond elevation. Located to the west of Keenagh.

• Mosstown House, gates/railings/walls, 1915–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway serving Mosstown House (demolished), rebuilt c. 1920, comprising a pair of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having carved limestone base/plinths with string course, moulded capstones and surmounted by carved sandstone eagle motifs. Concrete boundary walls with moulded stone dealing and cut limestone coping to either side (north and south). Ruinous single-storey gate lodge of random rubble limestone construction with pointed arch openings adjacent to the north, built c. 1830. Located to the north of Keenagh and to the east of the site of Mosstown House.

• Mosstown House, dovecote/pigeon house/aviary, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-storey former dovecote on octagonal-plan, built c. 1750. Formerly associated with Mosstown House (demolished) and now disused. Octagonal-profile hipped artificial slate roof with metal weather vane over lantern and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over roughly coursed limestone construction with raised block-and-start detailing/quoins and with rendered string course above ground floor. Blind ocului to second floor. Blind round-headed openings to first floor. Blind square-headed openings with limestone voussoirs visible under render to ground floor. Square-headed door opening with limestone threshold and limestone voussoirs visible under render to ground floor. Domed brick roof to ground floor interior. Set within grounds of Mosstown Demesne. Located to the east of the site of Mosstown House and to the west of Keenagh.

• Saint Dominic's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1980–1985 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Roman Catholic church on sub hexagonal-plan, dated 1981, having four-bay nave elevation and splayed projecting walls to entrance porch. Sheet metal roof to main section, sloping to front façade (northeast), with raised rendered parapet/ roof lantern with cross finial over altar to the southwest end. Artificial slate to porch. Painted rendered walls with cast-iron decorative plate to front facade. Square-headed window openings having aluminium casement windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber framed doors. Date plaque to interior. Set in own grounds to the north end of Keenagh. Freestanding cast-iron bell tower the north side of grounds, built c. 1830. Roughly coursed rubble limestone walls with castellated piers to site, having decorative carved limestone plaque and timber double leaf gates.

• Canal overflow, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Overflow for Royal Canal, built c. 1817, now disused. Ashlar limestone stepped construction with segmental-headed opening to overflow basin having tooled cut limestone voussoirs. Sited on the east bank of the canal. Located to the west of Keenagh and to the northwest of Mosstown Harbour (13313020).

• Mosstown House, gate lodge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey with attic level Tudor-Revival style former gate lodge on L-shaped plan, built c. 1830, having gable-fronted end bay to the south end of the main elevation (east), lean-to porch on corner of ‘L’ and single-storey extension to rear (west). Now in use as private house. Pitched artificial slate roof with clustered diagonal-set rendered chimneystacks and decorative timber bargeboards. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with timber framed leaded casement windows. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door to porch, timber battened door with carved limestone detailing to door surround to interior of porch. Set adjacent to road to the south of the site of Mosstown House (demolished) and to the west of Keenagh. Rendered boundary wall to road frontage (east).

• Mosstown House, walled garden, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden complex on square-plan with sub-rectangular section attached to the north/northeast, built c. 1760 and extended c. 1860. Originally associated with Mosstown House (demolished), now in use for equestrian training. Random rubble stone boundary walls. Roughly coursed limestone boundary walls to northwest corner of complex having Tudor-arched door openings with cut limestone voussoirs and timber panelled doors. Segmental-headed and round-headed door openings having dressed limestone voussoirs to various sections of garden walls. Single-storey gardener's shed set in northeast section of complex, having pyramidal slate roof with rendered chimneystack, roughcast rendered walls and bowed front façade. Square-headed window opening with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door. Set within grounds of Mosstown Demesne, to the northeast of the site of Mosstown House. Possible remains of ornamental canal/water feature to the south of walled garden. Located to the west of Keenagh.

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 Mosstown, 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 low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mosstown · Caonach Mór

Area

2,012,481 m² (201.25 ha, 497.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommock, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Kilcommock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,161 people lived in 410 households in the Kilcommock electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonbreany, Coolnahinch, Corlea, Derrynaskea, Island, Keenagh, Mosstown

Placenames

Mosstown 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.