Proof of concept.This is an unofficial demo built by Datopian from Longford County Council's public data. The official portal is countycouncil-longford.hub.arcgis.com. Questions or feedback: hello@datopian.com

A PortalJS proof of concept · data from Longford County Council's ArcGIS Hub

Welcome to the

Longford Open Data

Find, explore and query the Council's public data: planning applications, zoning, protected structures, landscape and wind energy areas, trails, blueways and more.

What’s here?

Zoning, heritage and landscape designations, and nearby protected structures and planning applications.

Browse by category

Every public dataset from the Council's ArcGIS Hub, grouped by topic.

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Longford in layers

Towns and villages, tourism areas, blueways, trails and protected structures, drawn straight from the Council’s published data. Pick a layer to open it, or combine any of them on the map.

Open the map

Data story

Boom, bust and the countryside

13,471 planning applications since 1998, from 1,465 in 2004 to 155 in 2014. About seven in ten are outside the zoned towns and villages, in every period.

Read the story →

Recently updated

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Using the data

Terms of use

The Council shares this data on its ArcGIS Hub, which does not state a licence. Check with the Council before you reuse the data.

Find and use a dataset

Search by name or browse by category. Tables open in a sortable, filterable preview you can query with SQL; map layers open on a map. Everything downloads as CSV, and connects to the live ArcGIS service.

Missing something?

Ask the Council’s Planning Department at planning@longfordcoco.ie, or call 043 334 3300.

Plans and Council services

The Council also publishes these reports and tools.

Your ArcGIS stays the source

Nothing changes for the Council’s GIS and open data team. Data keeps being managed in ArcGIS; this site reads it, can refresh on a schedule, and gives residents a faster way in: search across every dataset, tables and maps that load instantly, and queries that run in the browser.