Elfeet (Adamson)
Elfeet (Adamson) is a townland in the civil parish of Cashel, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Oilfíd (Adamson).
Parcel 65696
- Area
- 90,026 m² (9 ha, 22.25 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Elfeet (Adamson)
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- LF021-039001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle SSE-facing slope in pasture. A raised oval area (c. 60m ENE-WSW; 43.2m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.4m; H 0.4m max.) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.3m) and an outer bank (Wth 4.8m; H 0.6m). Quarry holes are evident in both banks and a relatively modern farm building has been built into the outer bank at SSW. A modern NNW-SSE roadway divides the rath into unequal portions. The smaller portion, to the ENE, has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Corresponding breaks (Wth 2.4m) in the banks at NNW with an accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. There are two souterrains (LF021-039002-; LF021-039003-) within the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF021-039002 Souterrain
Description
Within the thickness of the inner bank of a rath (LF021-039001-) at SW. A linear passage (L 6.5m; Wth 1.5m), aligned NW-SE, leads to a creep (L 1.4m; Wth 0.8m; max. H 0.7m) at its NW end, which accesses a subrectangular chamber (5.3m NW-SE; 2.3m NE-SW; max. H 1.4m). The walls are built of drystone masonry and incline inward at the top to support a roof of large flat slabs. A second souterrain (LF021-039003-), of similar construction, is located in the NW quadrant of the rath. Both were exposed as a result of cattle trampling. (ITA Survey 1944) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 4 September 2012
- LF021-039003 Souterrain
Description
In the NW quadrant of a rath (LF021-039001-). A largely collapsed, linear passage (L c. 5.5m; Wth c. 1.5m), aligned NE-SW leads to a creep (L 2.3m; Wth 0.75m; max. H 0.8m) at its SW end. The creep accesses a small subrectangular chamber (5.5m NE-SW; 2m NW-SE; max. H 1.6m). The walls are built of drystone masonry and incline inward at top to support a roof of large flat slabs. A second souterrain (LF021-039002-), of similar construction, is located within the thickness of the inner bank of the rath at SW. (ITA Survey 1944) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 3 September 2012
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 5 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
- 76.5 ha
- 189 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 3,751 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Elfeet (Adamson), from 32 m² to 171,587 m² (17.16 ha, 42.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Elfeet (Adamson) 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
8 Jun 2017Conditional
general purpose agricultural shed and separate storage and machinery shed and ancillary site works
Retention · Longford County Council, 17160
23 Mar 2017Refused
of general purpose agricultural storage and machinery shed and ancillary site works
Retention · Longford County Council, 1781
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 Elfeet (Adamson).
Recorded monuments
- LF021-035 Windmill
Description
On a hilltop overlooking Lough Ree to the S and SW. Named 'Wind Mill Stump' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, this may be the remains of the windmill where Sir Silvester Browne, having been forcibly taken from his house (LF021-010002-) in Formoyle by several Irishmen, was hanged, along with Daniel Stubbs, in May 1642 (Hickson 1884, vol. 1, 354, 358). All that survives are partial wall-footings (approx. wall T 0.8m). The shell of a two-storey 19th-century windmill lies c. 3m to the SSW. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 11 February 2013
Architectural heritage
- Mill (wind), 1750–1790 · Regional interest
Description
Remains of two-storey windmill (corn) on circular-plan, built c. 1770. Constructed with coursed rubble limestone with remains of lime render over. Remains of cut stone coping over. Remains of two doorways, one to the southeast face and one to the northwest face, having narrow slit window openings/loop hole openings over. Roughly cut limestone lintels over doorways. Remains of staircase to interior, curving around wall from the northwest doorcase. Located in grounds of modern house to the south of Lanesborough. Sited on top of a hill in an elevated position to the east of Lough Ree. Possible remains of earlier windmill (on circular-plan) adjacent to the northeast.
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 Elfeet (Adamson), about 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Elfeet (Adamson).
- 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 Elfeet (Adamson) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Elfeet (Adamson) · Oilfíd (Adamson)
- Area
- 765,167 m² (76.52 ha, 189.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cashel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathcline
- Electoral division
- Cashel West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 651 people lived in 238 households in the Cashel West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghavadden, Carrow More, Cashel, Elfeet (Burke), Glebe, Leab, Loughfarm
- Placenames
- Elfeet (Adamson) 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.