Elfeet (Burke)

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Elfeet (Burke), from 1,777 m² to 68,746 m² (6.87 ha, 16.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Elfeet (Burke) 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Elfeet (Burke) 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC 000440
• Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Slawn 001443

Recorded monuments

• LF021-050001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Incorporating the SE angle tower of the curtain wall of a 14th-century Anglo-Norman castle (LF021-050002-). In 1621/2 during the Plantation of Longford, George Calvert was granted 'the castle, town and lands of Ulfeede, 295a arable and 272a bog and wood in the barony of Rathclyn' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 529). This roughly square-shaped, three-storey tower house (ext. dims. 6.4m ENE-WSW; 6m NNW-SSE; wall T 2.1m) is built of roughly coursed limestone with alternating quoin stones of cut limestone. Only the E wall survives intact as well as sections of the adjoining N and S walls. The original doorway, now destroyed, was located in the W wall and it was accessed from the interior of the of the earlier castle. There is evidence of a mural stairs in the SW angle at ground-floor level from which the first floor was accessed. There is a high barrel vault (H 3.85m), with evidence of wicker-centring, over the small, narrow, ground-floor chamber (int. dims. 3.06m N-S; 3.1m E-W). One narrow single-light window is located in the centre of the S wall. At first-floor level, in the centre of the E wall, are the remains of a broken-out window. A doorway in its N embrasure leads to a mural stairs in the NE angle that accesses the second floor. There appears to have been a vaulted loft space directly over the first floor with a larger chamber above this at second-floor level. Remains of the curtain wall, which act as a bawn wall, run off the N and W walls. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 1 June 2012

• LF021-050002 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope overlooking Elfeet Bay, in Lough Ree, c. 85m to the W. This castle, which possibly dates to the 14th-century, consists of a rectangular ward (42m NE–SW; c. 40m NW–SE) enclosed by a substantial curtain wall (H 2-3m; wall T 2m) built of rubble limestone, with a pronounced high base-batter (H 1.4m) best visible at the N end of the W wall. Originally there were four square flanking towers at the NE, SE, SW and NW angles. The N wall is the only complete line of the curtain wall (L 37.5m); its external face is obscured by a line of coniferous trees. Only intermittent stretches of the other walls survive: the S end of the E wall (L 8.8m), the E end of the S wall (L c. 15m) and the N end of the W wall (L c. 9m)The original entrance gateway is not visible but a tarmac roadway that intersects the ward on an E-W axis may follow the line of an earlier access route. Of the four angle towers the NW example is the best preserved. An undated report (SMR file) indicated that the basal portions of the NE tower survived but due to the dense growth of the trees it was impossible to clarify this. The SE tower (ext. dims. 6.4m NW-SE; 6m NE-SW) was remodelled when it was converted into a tower house (LF021-050001-) in the late medieval period. The SW tower has been levelled and only its wall-footings survive. The NW tower (approx. ext. dims. 12.75m NW-SE; 6.7m NE-SW; H c. 2.5m) is inaccessible. Ground-floor access is not evident suggesting that it was accessed at first-floor level. Within the interior of the ward numerous buildings have been built against the internal wall faces: against the S wall are a ruined house and outhouse, against the W wall another outhouse, and against the N wall 19th-century outbuildings and sheds. The back walls of the buildings against the S and W walls incorporate the curtain wall. A cattle shed and crush have been built up against the external face of the W wall of the NW angle tower and concrete render has been applied to the external W face of the curtain wall. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 1 June 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Elfeet (Burke).

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 Elfeet (Burke), 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Elfeet (Burke).

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 Elfeet (Burke) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Elfeet (Burke) · Oilfíd (Burke)

Area

329,497 m² (32.95 ha, 81.42 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

Culnagore, Elfeet (Adamson), Leab, Loughfarm

Placenames

Elfeet (Burke) 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.