Longford

124 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longford, from 63 m² to 101,697 m² (10.17 ha, 25.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Strategic Industrial / Enterprise Zones (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 12 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for the addition of a mobility impaired access structure (MIAS) that will be within the curtilage of 3 no. Protected Structures (RPS Reference Nos.: 02600465, 02600466 and 02600467). The structure is a hybrid assembly of different concrete and steel elements including a pair of staircases (two flights each), free standing lift shafts, support portals, electrical services and a walkway. Associated works will include the widening of existing platforms to accommodate the MIAS with associated fencing, removal of 10 No. car parking spaces and replacement with 9 No. car parking spaces which includes 2 No. accessible car parking spaces, removal of existing historic wall for construction access off the N60 and reinstatement of wall following construction, a new waiting shelter on Platform 1 and all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660415

• 23 Jul 2026N/a

  Permission to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system along with associated siteworks at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660376

• 9 Jul 2026N/a

  Permission to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system along with associated siteworks at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660336

• 9 Jul 2021Conditional

  Permission for development which will consist of a new dwelling, gated entrance, 2 no. garages and suitable wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21388

• 28 Jun 2021N/a

  for development consisting of a new dwelling, gated entrance, garage, stables and suitable wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21357

• 18 Jul 2019N/a

  The proposed development will comprise of (a) construction of 9 no. terraced 2-bed two-storey residential units, (b) all associated site works including construction of footpath, car parking, ducting for utilities, formation of new connections to existing foul and surface water drainage and existing utilities.

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19368

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 Longford.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Longford.

Architectural heritage

• Castlerea Railway Station, signal box, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of railway station structures, built c.1860 by Great Southern Railways as part of the Sligo-Westport line. Three-bay two-storey signal box with pitched slate roof and red brick chimneystack. Brick to ground floor with plinth and timber boarded and glass structure to first floor accessed by cast-iron steps. Segmental-headed timber frame windows. Timber station sign to signal box. Cast-iron signal posts to platform. Random coursed water tower with yellow brick opening and cast-iron water tank to top with ladder and measure. Wheel operated timber level crossing gates with cast-iron fittings to cut stone gate piers. Cast-iron lamps to gates.

• Castlerea Railway Station, railway station, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey railway station, built c.1860 by the Great Southern Railways as part of the Sligo-Westport line. Five bays to front and seven bays to platform side. Advanced gable-fronted entrance bay. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and red brick chimneystacks. Coursed cut limestone walls with tooled stone cornice. String course to entrance gable. Replacement timber windows set into chamfered tooled limestone surrounds. Segmental-arched chamfered tooled limestone door surround with timber double door and overlight, panelled to front and panelled and glazed to platform. Canopy to platform with clear corrigtaed plastic covering supported on cast-iron brackets. Station bounded by random coursed wall with limestone coping. Cut stone piers with chamfered corners, pyramidal caps and timber gates.

• Castlerea Railway Station, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Waiting room, footbridge and platform at Castlerea Railway Station, built c.1860 by the Great Southern Railways as part of the Sligo-Westport line. Platform comprises brick retaining walls with stepped brick and dentil course to top with concrete kerbing and tarmac to surface. Three-bay single-storey waiting room to south platform with pitched tiled roof having cut stone chimneystacks with terracotta pots. Random coursed limestone rock-faced walls with dressed quoins and dressed chamfered surrounds to entrance and window openings. Cut stone corbels to upper façade formerly supported a canopy. Corrugated sheeting to side door and window openings. Timber panelled door to interior with timber wainscoting and benching to walls. Corrugated sheeting to upper walls with timber boarded ceiling with timber cornice and chamfered roof beams. Rock-faced yard to west gable with adjacent limestone steps linking platform with road to south. Cast-iron footbridge to east end of platform, comprised of cast-iron supporting columns with moulded capitals, panelled newel posts with decorative tops and sheet metal sides to bridge and stairs.

• Castlerea Railway Station, locomotive shed, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former goods shed and station master's house to east and south-east of station, built c.1860 by the Great Southern Railways as part of the Sligo-Westport line. Now derelict. Station Master's house comprises two-bay two-storey T-plan house with lean-to porch and canted bay to gable front. Pitched slate roof with over-sailing eaves, red brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed cut stone and rock-faced walls with rock-faced quoins and window surrounds. Square-headed window openings with chamfered cut stone sills. House bounded by random coursed wall to rear with rendered wall to front. Detached goods shed comprising two-bay single-storey shed with abutting lean-to structure to west side and round-headed brick-arched openings to front and gables. Pitched slate roof with cat slide canopies over front openings. Cut stone chimneystack to lean-to. Random coursed cut limestone walls with dressed and rock-faced opening surrounds. Pedstrian doorway to front wall and barred windows to front and south gable walls. Timber battened doors to front openings and corrugated steel to gable openings. Timber tie-beam truss roof. Crane to east gable. Retaining limestone wall to internal railway platform to allow access for railway cars. Goods shed located adjacent to railway line.

• Longford House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement glebe house, built c.1750. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed walls. Timber sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Tripartite window to side elevation. Replacement uPVC and timber casement windows to rear elevation. Round-headed tooled limestone block-and-start door surround with a spoked fanlight and a timber panelled and glazed door. Door accessed up limestone steps. Range of two-storey stone outbuilding to rear yard and single-storey sheds to rear of house. Decorative cast-iron gates flanked by rendered piers to front site.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1113 (ZIP).

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

Name

Longford

Area

1,588,673 m² (158.87 ha, 392.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeevin, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Castlereagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlereagh electoral division: 3,268 people in 1,240 households; 64% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlereagh, Demesne, Emlagh, Harristown, Knockmurry, Knockroe, Lisliddy, Rampark

Placenames

Longford 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.