Keel

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keel, from 1,159 m² to 230,907 m² (23.09 ha, 57.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Keel 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.

• 15 Apr 2021Conditional

  construction of ground floor bay window extension and other minor alterations to front elevation of existing dwelling

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21105

• 19 Mar 2021Conditional

  of PL16/243 for proposed construction of a storey and a half type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary waste-water treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2181

• 19 Mar 2021Conditional

  of PL16/242 - proposed construction of a storey and a half type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary waste-water treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2182

• 6 Jan 2021Conditional

  of 16/206 proposed demolition of existing derelict dwelling house together with the proposed construction of storey and half type dwelling house with attached sunlounge, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment unit with percolation area and all ancillary works previously granted under PL16-206

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 212

• 24 Sept 2020Conditional

  renovate and extend existing house, treatment unit, percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20211

• 6 Jun 2018Conditional

  Proposed slatted shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18115

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  for proposed Dormer type dwelling house, detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17316

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 Keel.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Keel.

Architectural heritage

• Keel House, house, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1830, with lean-to porch to rear elevation (north). Formerly in use as a school with attached school master’s accommodation. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic storey attached to the west gable end. Now disused. Pitched natural slate roof with cut stone eaves course, rubble stone chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west) and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render finish over roughly coursed limestone and pudding stone walls; render now failing. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills and two-over-two pane diminishing timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (north) at first floor level having paired four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed door opening to main elevation having decorative overlight with leaded tracery, and double-leaf timber panelled doors. Pitched natural slate roof and random rubble limestone and pudding stone walls to attached outbuilding to west. Two multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to the rear on L-shaped plan, built c. 1880, having pitched natural slate roofs, random rubble limestone walls, square-headed window and door openings with stone sills, timber fittings and some with limestone voussoirs, and segmental-headed carriage arches with yellow brick voussoirs. Rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) give access to outbuildings from road to the east. Set slightly back from road with house/former school aligned at a right-angle to the road alignment. Located to the southwest of Ardagh with modern house to front yard of house/former school (south).

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 Keel, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Keel · An Caol

Area

2,982,262 m² (298.23 ha, 736.93 acres)

Civil parish

Kilglass, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Kilglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

730 people lived in 280 households in the Kilglass electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Bawn Mountain, Carrickedmond, Castlerea Mountain, Cloonagh, Cloonkeen, Garrycam, Knocknaskea, Lisduff (Montgomery), Mornin

Placenames

Keel 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.