Cooleeshil or Richfort
Cooleeshil or Richfort is a townland in the civil parish of Ardagh, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is An Chúil Íseal.
Parcel 64390
- Area
- 3,733 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 114 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cooleeshil or Richfort
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 117.4 ha
- 290 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 4,708 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooleeshil or Richfort, from 732 m² to 714,670 m² (71.47 ha, 176.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cooleeshil or Richfort 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Jan 2024Conditional
the proposed extension & internal renovation to existing dormer bungalow type dwelling house, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460015
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cooleeshil or Richfort.
Recorded monuments
- LF019-012 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a slight rise in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF019-014 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a very gentle S-facing slope in low-lying pasture. This raised circular area (diam. c. 27m) is defined by a scarp (H 0.8m) and an external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.5m). An outer bank noted from N-NE-E in 1976 (SMR file) is no longer visible. The original entrance is not recognisable. Adjoining the rath at SSE is a rectangular annexe (c. 25m ENE-WSW; c. 20m NNW-SSE) defined by a low scarp (H 0.1-0.3m) with a very narrow shallow external fosse (Wth 1.1m; D 0.1m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 30 November 2011
- LF019-015 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in low-lying pasture. This much-denuded, flat-topped, slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 30m; H 0.2m) is possibly the remains of a rath. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 30 November 2011
- LF019-016 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise in pasture. Depicted as an enclosed circular copse of trees on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 23m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a shallow intervening fosse and an outer bank. The outer bank was identifiable only at S. Both banks have since been levelled and the fosse infilled. The defining element is a scarp (H 0.4m) at S and W. Mature deciduous trees, predominantly larch, are growing on the monument. Possibly a ringfort that was subsequently landscaped. (CUCAP, BGI 1) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 9 February 2012
- LF019-117 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle SE-facing slope in pasture, c. 150m to the NE of Richfort House. Depicted as a circular tree-lined enclosure with the designation ‘Fort’ on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The monument has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. However, it is identifiable as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGI 1). Possibly a rath that was landscaped as a tree-ring. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 18 February 2012
Architectural heritage
- Richfort, gates/railings/walls, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway formerly serving Richfort (now demolished), built c. 1820, comprising ashlar limestone entrance piers (on square-plan) having chamfered dressed limestone plinths and tooled capstones over. Double leaf cast-iron gates. Recessed from the road and angled to face southeast. Cut stone wheel guard to the front of gate piers. Located to the east of the site of Richfort and to the northwest of Ardagh. Random rubble limestone boundary walls to road frontage to the north and the south. New gateway cut through boundary wall to the north side of gates.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cooleeshil or Richfort, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cooleeshil or Richfort.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cooleeshil or Richfort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Cooleeshil or Richfort · An Chúil Íseal
- Area
- 1,173,653 m² (117.37 ha, 290.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardagh
- Electoral division
- Ardagh West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 509 people lived in 173 households in the Ardagh West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghanahown, Cartrongarrow, Drumbaun, Grillagh, Laughil, Moyra and Fortmill
- Placenames
- Cooleeshil or Richfort 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.