# Longfield, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rahara, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 582,571 m² (58.26 ha, 143.96 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 58,072 m² (5.81 ha, 14.35 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Rahara, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/rahara.md - Barony: Athlone North - Electoral division: Lackan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 379 people lived in 126 households in the Lackan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/44204 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 191625 - Centre: latitude 53.520442, longitude -8.154644 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longfield, from 5,214 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres) to 357,952 m² (35.8 ha, 88.45 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 705538: 357,952 m² (35.8 ha, 88.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/705538.md - Parcel 649133: 81,395 m² (8.14 ha, 20.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/649133.md - Parcel 667078: 34,749 m² (3.47 ha, 8.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/667078.md - Parcel 5828231: 5,214 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5828231.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Longfield in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 17 Apr 2026, Roscommon County Council 2660172: N/a. Permission. Permission for a 10 year planning permission for the proposed development of a wind farm on a site area of 27.4 hectares in the townlands of Townlands of Carrowkeel, Longfield, Kilmass, Grange, Rahara, Co. Roscommon. The proposed development for which permission is sought will comprise: • Four (4) wind turbines with an overall blade tip height of 184.55 metres (m) to 185m, a rotor diameter of 149.1m to 163m, a hub height of 103.5m to 110m, and associated foundations, hard-standing and assembly areas; • A permanent 38kV on-site electrical substation within a compound area of 1,034m² to consist of: a control building containing welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and equipment, perimeter security fencing, entrance gates, underground cabling, a wastewater holding tank, a rainwater harvesting tank, parking, lighting and lightning protection mast 18m in height; and all associated infrastructure and services including CCTV and signage; • A permanent Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) within an area of 1,014m² adjacent to the substation, to consist of 32 Battery units, 4 PCS (Power Conversion System) inverters, 2 PCS MV (Medium Voltage) transformers connected to the HV (High Voltage) substation transformer, and perimeter security fencing; • Upgrade of an existing agricultural entrance from the R362 Regional Road for use as a permanent site entrance by all vehicular traffic during construction and operation; • Upgrade of approximately 700m of existing internal agricultural access tracks, to include passing bays for internal site traffic and all associated drainage; • Approximately 2,400m of new internal permanent access tracks, to include passing bays for internal site traffic and all associated drainage; • Re-use of approximately 17,595m³, of excavated peat for landscaping within the site to a maximum height of 0.5m and subsequent re-vegetation; • A temporary site compound within an area of 4,000m², containing temporary site offices, waste storage areas, parking areas and perimeter security fencing; • A meteorological mast with a height of 36m and associated foundation; • Temporary and permanent drainage and sediment control systems; • Felling of approximately 5.5ha of forestry to facilitate construction and operation of the proposed wind farm; • Biodiversity enhancement measures to include replanting of 2.42ha of trees and 1,240m of hedgerows on-site; • All associated underground electrical and communications cabling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660172/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Longfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - RO045-069001: House - 17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO045-069001-. Built by Edward Coyle in 1645, Gortnarapa was was bought by Capt. John Sproule and re-roofed in 1675. It was abandoned in 1824 (RIA Upton papers No. 7: see this web-page access on 23/10/2015; http://www.ria.ie/getmedia/3a3e5df7-6c7c-41a4-b009-658b35b85d5f/Upton-Catalogue.pdf). Gortfadda is represented without a house on the Strafford map of Athlone barony c. 1636 but it could be the house represented in neighbouring Kilmass (Simington 1949, Athlone (, 301302)). Edmund Coyle owned 57 acres at Gortfadda and the unknown Gortnegappagh in 1641 while the bishop owned the 97 acres of Kilmass (ibid. 116). Situated in a low-lying landscape with a broad basin to the S. This is a rectangular three storey, three bay structure (int. dims 9.4m NW-SE; 5.2m NE-SW) with a stairs return (int. dims 3.25m NE-SW; 2.45m NW-SE) at the centre of the SW wall. There are good quoins but the front (NE) wall, which had a string course over the second floor, does not survive. There are simple lights and chimney stacks projecting inwards on the NW and SE gables, with larger widows with chamfered limestone surrounds on the SW wall. The walled garden (RO045-069002-) is c. 30m to the NW and may be contemporary. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 23 October, 2015 - RO045-069002: Walled garden, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO045-069002-. At the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope and at the N edge of a broad basin. This is a rectangular area (dims 74m N-S; 58m E-W) defined by slightly battered walls (T 0.6-0.7m; H up to 2.5m). There is a lodge (ext. dims 6.85m E-W; 5m N-S) with a round-headed doorway (Wth 0.9m; H 2.2m) in the centre of the N wall and a round-headed gateway (Wth 1.85m; H 2.4m) at the SE angle. Both the lodge and the gateway may be secondary features. The fortified house (RO045-069001-) is c. 30m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Longfield. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Longfield, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Longfield. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/longfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/longfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/longfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Longfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrowkeel: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/carrowkeel-190410.md - Funshinagh: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/funshinagh.md - Grange: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/grange-191299.md - Kilmass: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/kilmass.md - Lackan: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/lackan-191505.md - Rahara: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/rahara.md - Roverkilly: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/roverkilly.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/longfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/longfield