Grassyard

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grassyard, from 112 m² to 119,505 m² (11.95 ha, 29.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• S1Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Education)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Industrial/Commercial/Warehousing (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Open space, park)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 5 Jul 2023Conditional

  to demolish 4 no. existing disused dwellings and erect 8 no. fully serviced single storey semi-detached houses, form new service road, connect to existing services and all associated works

  Permission, 8 homes · Longford County Council, 2360078

• 16 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of a walkway around the perimeter of existing sports-field together with the proposed erection of adequate lighting to facilitate the proposed walkway and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20307

• 6 Feb 2020Conditional

  proposed redesign of a previously permitted structure that was granted full planning permission under planning permission reference number PL19/306 whereby it is now proposed to construct a single storey structure to the front of existing school building consisting of 3 no. classrooms with toilet facilities in each classroom, resource room, wheelchair accessible W.C., connection to existing foul sewer, surface water and watermain services all of which are to service existing primary school. Full planning permission is also been sought for the proposed construction of an astro turf playing pitch together with perimeter fencing, erection of lighting poles with lighting, drainage of existing sports field together with the construction of a new vehicular entrance off adjoining public road and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2025

• 20 Nov 2019Conditional

  construction of a single storey structure to the front of existing school building consisting of 2 No. classrooms with toilet facilities in each classroom, wheelchair accessible W.C., boiler house, connection to existing foul sewer, surface water and watermain services all of which are to service existing primary school and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19306

• 17 Apr 2018Conditional

  proposed demolition of existing Service Station Shop & adjoining storage buildings together with seeking full planning permission for the proposed construction of a single storey shop building comprising of retail area (195sq.m), with ancillary Off-Licence Area (22.5sq.m), Coffee/Serve Over and Seating Area (64.5sq.m), Console Area, Circulation Area, Sluice Room, Toilets, Staff Room, Storage Rooms, Mezzanine Level containing Office Space, Signage, provision of Onsite Car Parking Spaces, landscaping and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1875

• 9 Mar 2017Conditional

  Provide additional changing room and toilet facilities by enclosing a 27m2 open covered porch area to the northern corner of the school, carrying out necessary internal modifications and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1774

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 Grassyard.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a shelf of level ground on a NW-facing slope. A raised subcircular area (58m E-W; 53.5m N-S) enclosed from SSE-S-W by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.3-5.3m; H 0.2m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.4-1m), with an intervening shallow fosse (Wth 2.7-5.2m; D 0.1-0.5m) from S-SW-W and a low outer bank (Wth 2.9-3m; H 0.3m) from SSW-SW. From NE-E-S the enclosing element has been straightened to accommodate a field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 12 January 2012

• LF010-123 Cross-inscribed pillar
  Description

  A short distance to the NNW of the highest point of a prominent NNW-SSE ridge. This low, narrow, subrectangular pillar stone (max. H 1.1m; Wth 0.28m; max. T 0.14m) is aligned ENE-WSW and tapers to a point. The upper part of the WSW face is irregular in profile. A very small Latin cross with expanded terminals is visible close to the top of the SSE face. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 6 June 2013

• LF010-128 Standing stone
  Description

  In relatively level, low-lying pasture. This upright slab (H 1.37m; Wth 1.3m; T 0.65m) is aligned NW-SE. Close to the top of the SE face is a barely visible, small, crude cross. (Fredengren 2010, 106, Pl. 3.16) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 December 2012

Architectural heritage

• Convent of Mercy, church/chapel, 1945–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay single-storey chapel adjoining the rear of Convent of Mercy (13305011), built 1948, having a single-bay canted chancel to the north end, single-bay two-storey section to the south end (joining convent) and with a single-storey sacristy attached to the northwest end. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge crestings and cast-iron finials to gable ends. Hipped slate roof over chancel having terracotta ridge tiles. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with rendered quoins to the corners. Carved limestone date plaque to south elevation. Lancet window openings with rendered surrounds and lattice glazed stained glass windows. Square-headed window openings to sacristy with rendered surrounds and lattice glazed stained glass windows. Tudor-arched door opening to south end of the east elevation with chamfered rendered surround, render hoodmoulding over and with modern doors and overlight. Flight of concrete steps to entrance. Pointed arch window opening over. Located to the northeast corner of the Convent of Mercy and to the east end of Granard.

• Convent of Mercy, graveyard/cemetery, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Graveyard on rectangular-plan associated with the Convent of Mercy (13305011), erected c. 1920, having a collection of iron grave markers. Statue of Christ on the Cross to the east end. Surrounded by roughly dressed snecked limestone boundary wall. Main entrance to the west end comprising a pair of diagonal-set get piers (on square-plan) having cut stone capstones and wrought and cast-iron gates with cross finial over. Located to the rear (north) of the Convent of Mercy and to the northeast of the centre of Granard.

• Convent of Mercy, convent/nunnery, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eleven-bay (nine-bay to first floor) two-storey convent, built in 1892 - 5, having a central single-bay gable-fronted breakfront and gabled-fronted two-bay breakfronts to either end (east and west). Two-storey return to the rear at the west end and convent chapel (13305009) attached to the rear at the east end. Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks, and timber bargeboards to projecting gables and having cast-iron cross finials to gable apexes. Roughcast rendered walls over rendered plinth course with cut stone quoins to the corners. Freestanding statues to gable-fronted sections at first floor level having cut stone plinths and canopies. Carved limestone roundels with heraldic motifs to centre-bays of recessed sections at first floor level. Pointed arch window openings with rendered surrounds, limestone sills and replacement windows. Square-headed window openings to recessed sections at first floor level with rendered surrounds, limestone sills and replacement windows. Triple-light pointed arch opening to breakfront at first floor level having cut limestone tracery with cusped/trefoil-headed lancet openings with quatrefoil detail over and with quarry glazed stained glass windows. Pointed arch door opening to central breakfront with panelled timber door, overlight and having hood moulding over. Flight of limestone steps to entrance. Pointed arch opening to west elevation having hood moulding with carved foliate label stops over tympanum with carved limestone tracery and heraldic motif over timber panelled door. Set back from road in extensive grounds to the east end of Granard. Rubble limestone boundary wall to road-frontage (south). Main entrance gates to the east end of boundary wall comprising pair of moulded dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having carved capstones and double leaf iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side by iron railings set on limestone plinth walls (on quadrant-plan) and terminated by dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having incised cross motifs.

• Post box, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron wall-mounted post box, c. 1930, with ‘Carron Company, Stirlingshire’ foundry mark to base and ‘Post Office’ in raised lettering above letter flap. Set into boundary wall of school to the northeast end of Granard town centre.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Grassyard · Cartrún an Mhuilinn

Area

776,589 m² (77.66 ha, 191.9 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Granard Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Granard Urban electoral division: 1,268 people in 494 households; 47% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carragh, Granard, Mullingee, Rathcronan, Tromra

Placenames

Grassyard 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.