Carrigeen

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigeen, from 1,195 m² to 222,110 m² (22.21 ha, 54.88 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 Carrigeen 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.

• 6 Sept 2026N/a

  of (i) as built garage ancillary to the use of the existing dwelling (ii) revised site boundaries to that granted under planning ref 061110 and all associated site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2660279

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 Carrigeen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrigeen.

Architectural heritage

• Shawbrook, house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, having later bowed single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch offset close to the centre of the main elevation (southeast). Single- and two-storey extensions to rear, added c. 1960. Single-storey block attached to northeast gable end. Now partially in use as a dance school with associated residential accommodation. Hipped natural slate roof with two rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course; walls now overgrown with vegetation. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds, tooled cut limestone sills and diminishing one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to porch having glazed door. Timber shutters visible to window interiors. Complex of two-storey outbuildings, c. 1860, arranged around a courtyard to the rear (northwest) having pitched artificial slate roofs, roughly coursed limestone walls, square-headed window and door openings with timber fittings and a segmental-headed carriage arch with timber double doors. Steel-farmed corrugated-metal barn to rear having manufacturer's plate (Smith and Pearson) to front elevation, now in use as a dance studio. Former main entrance gateway to the south of house, erected c. 1880 but now disused, comprising a pair of cut limestone gate posts having chamfered edges and moulded caps, and having a pair of cast-iron gates. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of rubble stone wall and terminated by squared rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having capstones over. Post box (13402404) built into boundary pier to the east. Sections of rubble stone boundary walls along road-frontage to the south and west. Pedestrian gateway to the southwest of house comprising a pair of roughly dressed limestone gate posts with curved heads and a wrought-iron flat bar gate. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the west of Legan.

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c. 1905, with 'ER VII' royal cipher and raised crown motif. Raised ‘Post Office’ lettering to letter flap and foundry name to the base (now illegible). Set into coursed limestone gate pier at the former main entrance to Shawbrook (13402402), adjacent to rural crossroad junction, and located to the east of Legan.

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 Carrigeen, 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

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

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

Name

Carrigeen · An Carraigín

Area

1,216,224 m² (121.62 ha, 300.54 acres)

Civil parish

Rathreagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Foxhall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

611 people lived in 236 households in the Foxhall electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnavealoge, Clontymullan, Foxhall, Killeen, Kinard, Newtown

Placenames

Carrigeen 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.