Castlerea

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlerea, from 4,518 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres) to 476,734 m² (47.67 ha, 117.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Castlerea 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.

• 4 Oct 2022Conditional

  to renovate an existing two-storey dwelling and construct a two-storey extension (112sq.m) to the rear of same, to install a proprietary sewage treatment system, to modify an existing vehicular entrance, to connect to existing services and to carry out necessary site works, including the removal of a single storey extension to the rear and yard wall sections. The existing dwelling is a protected structure (RPS No. 161)

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22236

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 Castlerea.

Recorded monuments

• LF019-061001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope in poorly drained pasture with commanding views to the W and N. This late 16th/early 17th-century, five-storey, rectangular tower house (ext. dims. 10.6m NE–SW; 9.2m NW–SE; wall T 2.7m) is constructed of roughly coursed limestone and sandstone conglomerate with a slight base-batter. The destroyed doorway in the NE wall leads to a small lobby with an overhead murder-hole. Traces of wicker-centring are evident on the roof of the lobby. The guardroom, which has a series of gun loops, opens off the lobby to the NE while the spiral staircase is to the SE. The doorway from the lobby to the main ground-floor chamber has been broken out. The upper floors comprise a main chamber with a subsidiary one to the NE located directly over the lobby area. There is a NW–SE barrel vault over the main first-floor chamber and there are two floors above the vault. Garderobe chambers are evident in the S end of the NW wall on the third and fourth floors while a double garderobe exit chute, similar to one at Rathcline (LF017-009002-), is evident on its external face (see linked image LF019-061001-_02). There is a mural passage at the N end of the SE wall on the first floor. Traces of a machicolation survive over the doorway at fourth-floor level. Fireplaces are visible in the centre of the NE wall on the second- and third-floor levels. A small rectangular chimney stack can be seen protruding above the walls of the tower house. In the main chamber on the second-floor level, lime plaster is well preserved in the large window embrasures of the NW and SE walls. All of the windows, with the exception of one simple rectangular ope, have been broken out. The tower house is within the NW quadrant of a bawn (LF019-061002-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 June 2012

• LF019-061002 Bawn
  Description

  Associated with a tower house (LF019-061001-). The latter is shown roughly in the centre of a subcircular enclosure (c. 75m N-S; c. 70m E-W) on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map. On inspection this proved to be a drainage ditch (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.3m) that diverted water away from the interior of the possible bawn. It survives from SE-S-SW, elsewhere it has been filled in. The possible bawn is rectangular in plan (c. 52m NW-SE; c. 44m NE-SW) and is defined by field boundary walls on the NW (T 0.7m; H 0.6m) and NE (T 1m; H 0.9m) sides. The SE and SW sides have been levelled and only grass-covered wall footings are evident on the SE side, while a scarp (H 0.2m) delimits the SW side. The tower house stands in the NW quadrant of the interior, c. 4.5m to the SE of the NW wall. The gable wall (T c. 1m; H 1.5m) of a rectangular building (11m N-S; 7m E-W), covered in thorn bushes, is visible c. 10m to the NE of the NE wall. It appears to flank the S side of a cobbled roadway which could be the original roadway into the bawn. The building appears to be medieval in date and may be related to some form of gatehouse or forebuilding protecting the entrance into the bawn. This building and roadway are indicated on the 1836 edition OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 June 2012

Architectural heritage

• Castlerea, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house on T-shaped plan, built c. 1780, having three-bay two-storey return to rear (south). Single-storey lean-to and single-storey flat-roofed extensions to rear (north). Possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house. Pitched natural slate roof with four rendered chimneystacks, one to either gable end (east and west) and two offset towards the centre Painted smooth rendered walls over painted smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with plain smooth render surrounds, painted stone sills, and having diminishing timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to first floor, six-over-six to ground floor. Round-headed door opening offset to the centre of the main elevation (south) with timber panelled door, c. 1860, and overlight set in painted dressed stone surround with prominent keystone and imposts. Timber window shutters to interior. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the west/southwest of Ardagh. Complex of single-storey outbuildings arranged around a yard to the rear (north) of house having random rubble limestone construction, pitched corrugated-metal (buildings to north) and slate (building to east of yard) roofs, and square-headed openings with remains of timber fittings. Ashlar limestone bellcote to west gable end of outbuilding to north having cut limestone coping and cut limestone string course. Main gateway (13401926) to the southwest of house. Gateway to the west comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having double leaf wrought-iron flat bar gates. Remains of tower house (LF019-061----) to southeast.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840, with remodelled gable-fronted porch to centre of front elevation (southeast) and single-storey lean-to extension to rear (northwest). Currently disused. Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of red brick chimneystacks having cut stone coping. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched natural slate roof with timber bargeboard to porch. Roughcast rendered walls with ruled smooth cement render finish to front face of porch (southeast). Render failing in places revealing cut limestone quoins to corners and brick reveals to the window openings. Cut stone eaves course to main body of building and to porch. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and diminishing timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to first floor, six-over-six to ground floor. Square-headed door opening recessed in porch having timber panelled door and sidelight. Set back from road in own grounds to the southwest of Ardagh. Rendered boundary walls to road-frontage to the south. Rubble limestone boundary walls to the rear. Rendered boundary wall and gate piers to road-frontage. Rubble limestone boundary walls to the northeast, running along road alignment. Gateway to field to the northeast having a pair of dressed ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan).

• Castlerea, gates/railings/walls, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway serving Castlerea (13401908), erected c. 1870, comprising a pair of chamfered cut limestone gate posts having moulded pedimented capstones, and having a pair of decorative cast-iron gates having elaborate finials over. Gateway flanked to either side (north and south) by sections of curved rendered quadrant walling having chamfered ashlar plinths and moulded cut limestone coping. Quadrant walling terminated to either side by dressed ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having chamfered plinths and moulded capstones over. Painted deer head finials surmount outer piers. Cut stone wheel guards to outer piers. Located to the southwest of Castlerea (13401908) and to the west/southwest of Ardagh. Sections of rubble stone boundary wall to either side, running along road-frontage.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Castlerea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Castlerea · An Caisleán Riabhach

Area

643,900 m² (64.39 ha, 159.11 acres)

Civil parish

Moydow, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Moydow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moydow electoral division: 802 people in 268 households; 87% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvoher, Castlerea Mountain, Cloghan, Garranboy, Keeloge, Mollyroe, Toneen

Placenames

Castlerea 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.