Fihoges

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fihoges, from 306 m² to 194,738 m² (19.47 ha, 48.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Fihoges 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.

• 30 Jan 2025Conditional

  the following; (a) the construction of an extension to an existing storage shed together with loading bay (b) revised site boundary (c) along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared for the development and will be submitted with this application

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560016

• 19 Sept 2024Conditional

  of an existing site building, along with all other associated site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2460208

• 25 Apr 2024N/a

  to retain an existing site building. Permission is sought for (a) extension to an existing storage shed together with loading bay (b) revised site boundary (c) along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460081

• 26 Apr 2021Conditional

  proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with percolation area & ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21119

• 31 Aug 2020Conditional

  for revised plans and revised location of proposed storage shed from that previously granted under planning ref: PL19/191, along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20191

• 16 Oct 2019Conditional

  of Pl15/5 proposed construction of extensions to existing 3 no. Grower/Finisher units, extension to existing Farrowing Unit together with the proposed erection of 2 no. bulk feed silos to service existing piggery unit and all ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 19261

• 15 Jul 2019Conditional

  construct a storage shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19191

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: Brown Bog SAC 002346
• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Forbes Complex SAC 001818
• Special Protection Area: Ballykenny-Fisherstown Bog SPA 004101
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Brown Bog 000442
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Forbes Complex 001818

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fihoges.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fihoges.

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 Fihoges, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1666 (ZIP).

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

Name

Fihoges · Na Faicheoga

Area

391,712 m² (39.17 ha, 96.79 acres)

Civil parish

Clongesh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Cloondara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

718 people lived in 265 households in the Cloondara electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brianstown, Cartronlebagh, Cornollen, Kilmore Lower, Tully

Placenames

Fihoges 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.