Ferskill

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ferskill, from 136 m² to 369,622 m² (36.96 ha, 91.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Ferskill 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.

• 27 Nov 2025Conditional

  the proposed development will consist of the following (1) An agricultural shed which will consist of slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath, cattle handling area and feeding passages. (2) A silage pit with retaining walls. (3) Reception effluent tank and all associated site works. The Significant Further Information includes an appropriate assessment screening report

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2557

• 18 Jul 2025Conditional

  of the alterations to the development previously granted under Planning Refs. PL00/773. The development will consist of the alterations of the permitted stone-faced bungalow with septic tank, percolation area, garage, boundary walls, piers and gates for which retention permission is sought include: a) changing the garage location from north to north-west side of the house, b) upgrading and changing the septic tank location from western house corner to north-east side of the house, c) upgrading size and changing the location of percolation area to be parallel to the west-south garage wall, d) omission of natural stone finished masonry boundary walls, piers and gates

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2560151

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  the renovation of a derelict property, the demolition of an adjacent outhouse to the north side of the existing dwelling house together with the construction of a single storey extension to the north side of the existing dwelling, the installation of a sewerage treatment unit and tertiary treatment area, connection to existing services, and all other associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2389

• 5 Aug 2021Refused

  proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, septic tank with percolation area & ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21231

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 Ferskill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ferskill.

Architectural heritage

• Mossvale, outbuilding, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings, built c. 1820. Formerly associated with Mossvale House (now demolished). Two-storey range to the west side of complex having hipped natural slate roof, and with roughcast rendered and roughly coursed squared limestone rubble walls with cut limestone eaves course. Two segmental-headed carriage arch openings, diminishing in size to the east, with red brick voussoirs, and having oculus openings over having dressed limestone surrounds. Single-bay lean-to addition to the east gable end having segmental-headed carriage arch with red brick voussoirs. Adjacent detached multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to east having pitched natural slate roof and roughly coursed rubble and dressed limestone walls. Segmental-headed door opening with cut limestone voussoirs and having flanking red brick relieving arches. Loop hole/slit window openings to either side of arch. Located to the north of the site Mossvale House (now demolished) and to southeast of Granard.

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 Ferskill.

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

Name

Ferskill · Feirscill

Area

2,160,052 m² (216.01 ha, 533.76 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Milltown electoral division: 367 people in 130 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacroly, Ballymaurice, Cartron, Castlenugent, Leitrim, Tonywardan

Placenames

Ferskill 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.