Gelshagh

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gelshagh, from 156 m² to 209,102 m² (20.91 ha, 51.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 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 Gelshagh 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.

• 22 Jul 2026N/a

  the proposed construction of a dormer bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660235

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  the proposed construction of a single storey bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works whereby it is now proposed to relocate the proposed development to the adjacent field to the East together with relocating the access to the proposed development from the adjacent laneway and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 22293

• 10 Nov 2022Conditional

  the proposed construction of a single storey bungalow type dwelling house, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable wastewater treatment system with percolation area & ancillary works on a site which was previously granted full planning permission for a two storey dwelling under planning reference number PL20/75

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 22263

• 10 Mar 2022Conditional

  to construct a five bay shed which will consist of a slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath, cubicles, dry bedded area and all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2258

• 9 Feb 2022N/a

  redesign of the proposed two storey type dwelling house which was previously granted full planning permission under planning reference PL 20/75 along with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2221

• 27 Oct 2021Conditional

  of an existing dormer bunlalow type dwelling house as currently constructed and all ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21308

• 6 May 2021Conditional

  to construct 1) agricultural shed to contain slatted cubicle shed milking parlour and calving pen 2) concrete silage apron together with all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21134

• 2 Apr 2020Conditional

  proposed demolition of existing dwelling, detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works (COVID 19b)

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2075

• 4 Jul 2019N/a

  demolition of existing dwelling and proposed 2 storey type dwelling, detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19177

• 25 Aug 2017Conditional

  for (A) proposed retention of existing sun lounge servicing existing two storey type dwelling house, (B) the proposed construction of a single storey extension to link existing two storey type dwelling house to existing garage, (C) conversion of existing garage to form habitable accommodation in conjunction with the proposed extension, (D) construction of a new attached garage to service existing two storey type dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17225

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 Gelshagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gelshagh.

Architectural heritage

• Dillon's Bridge, bridge, 1840–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over tributary of the Camlin River, built c. 1860. Segmental-headed arch with dressed limestone block-and-start voussoirs (V-jointed). Squared and dressed limestone rubble construction to barrel and abutments. Block-and-start quoins to corners of abutments. Coursed rock-faced masonry to spandrel walls, projecting battered rock-faced piers to either side of central arch. Rock-faced capstones over piers. Projecting dressed string course at deck/road level, incorporating piers. Coursed rock-faced masonry parapets with rock-faced coping over. Rubble stone wing walls to ends of parapets. Located to the east of Drumlish and to the southeast of Ballinamuck.

• Post box, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron post box, c. 1890, with 'VR' royal cipher and raised crown motif to head and raised ‘Post Office’ lettering to letter flap. Foundry mark to base, now illegible. Set into modern blockwork pier, adjacent to rural crossroad junction at Gelshagh. Located to the northeast of Ballinalee.

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 10 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 Gelshagh.

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

Name

Gelshagh · Geilseach

Area

2,195,847 m² (219.58 ha, 542.61 acres)

Civil parish

Columbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Gelshagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gelshagh electoral division: 366 people in 125 households; 92% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacordrinan, Aghagreagh, Aghakilmore, Derreenavoggy, Halfcartron, Molly

Placenames

Gelshagh 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.