Gubalaun

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gubalaun, from 363 m² to 96,551 m² (9.66 ha, 23.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• O2General
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Jan 2020Conditional

  construct a single storey extension (62m2) to the side of existing house including mezzanine and north facing roof terrace, new side entrance door to the west elevation, a new driveway and a new entrance, on an enlarged site to that submitted under previous planning 05/714, and carry out all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 204

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Melvin SAC 000428
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Melvin 000428

Recorded monuments

• LE005-003001 Church
  Description

  Situated on flat, low-lying ground c. 140m from the S shore of Lough Melvin. The early church of Rosinver was founded by St Maedoc or Mogue in the 6th century (O'Hanlon 1875, vol. 1, 68-70; O'Connell 1937, 204-6) and its erenachs are recorded into the 15th century. The saint is Maodhóg of Ferns (WX015-003002-), who is also known as Aidan. He was descended from the Collas Uais sept of the Oirghialla. A late, probably 16th century, Life records his associations with the churches of Rossinver and Drumlane in Cavan (CV014-028001-), which he is thought to have founded before he settled at Ferns. His death is recorded in the annals in AD 620 or 625, and his feastday was celebrated on the 31 January in both Ferns and at Rosinver (Ó Riain 2011, 432-6). The church is at the N edge of a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 20-25m E-W) defined by masonry walls. It is an undivided nave and chancel (original ext. dims 14m E-W; 8.6m N-S) built of uncoursed mortared sandstone walls (Wth 0.9m; max. H 5m at E) with dressed quoins surviving almost complete, except the S and W walls that are largely removed. The nave was shortened (L 10.8m) by an inserted W wall that has a blocked up doorway. There is a two-light lancet E window in an embrasure that was modified. A sandstone cross-slab (Wth 0.53m; H 0.56m plus; T 8-10cm) has an incised cross with expanded terminals (Herity et al. 1997, 105). A second, tapering cross-slab (H 0.73m; Wth 0.32-0.39m; T 5cm) has a circular cross-head in false relief with the shaft incised by a double line (Hartnett 1954c). A third stone with two cupmarks is reused as a headstone. The site of St Mogue's Well (O'Flanagan 1929, 127) lies c. 150m to the NE. (Davies 1946b; Weir 1980a, 173-4) A new graveyard was commenced E of the entrance lane before 2005 (OSAP). Archaeological testing (18E0055) S of the new graveyard reached subsoil, a grey sand / gravel (D 0.6-0.75m) without encountering archaeological features (Carey 2018), and further testing (19E0042) E of the church revealed a very disturbed area of re-deposited clays, silts and sand incorporating plastics (D 1.6-2.2m) over the gravel subsoil (Carey 2019). (See Excavations.ie: 2019:030) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 3 July 2017 Amended; 10 January 2020

• LE005-003002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on flat, low-lying ground c. 140m from the S shore of Lough Melvin and on the W side of an entrance lane. The church (LE005-003001-) is at the N side of a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 20-25m E-W) defined by masonry walls. It contains two cross-slabs and a stone with two cup-marks. A new graveyard was commenced E of the lane before 2005 (OSAP). Archaeological testing (18E0055) S of the new graveyard reached subsoil, a grey sand / gravel (D 0.6-0.75m) without encountering archaeological features (Carey 2018), and further testing (19E0042) E of the church revealed a very disturbed area of re-deposited clays, silts and sand incorporating plastics (D 1.6-2.2m) over the gravel subsoil (Carey 2019). (See Excavations.ie: 2019:030) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January, 2016 Amended; 10 January 2020

• LE005-003003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On flat, low-lying ground c. 50m from the S shore of Lough Melvin. The site of St Mogue's Well lies c. 150mto NE of the church (LE005-003001-). There is a slightly sunken area with some stones visible. According to John O’Donovan writing in the 1830s the pattern was celebrated on January 31st (O’Flanagan 1929, 127), but it is no longer held. (Davies 1946b, 76-9; Weir 1980a, 173-4) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January, 2016

• LE005-003004 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The site of St Mogue's Well (LE005-003-003-) lies c. 150m to NE of the church (LE003-003001-) (Davies 1946b, 76-9; Weir 1980a, 173-4), but John O'Donovan writing in the 1830s says that there was a second well called St Caillin's Well within a few perches of it (O'Flanagan 1929, 127). Tobar Callain at Rossinver is on a 17th century list of holy places in north Leitrim (Mooney 1946a, 66). However, no trace of this well could be identified, and it is not known locally. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January, 2016

• LE005-003005 Cross-slab
  Description

  Situated on flat, low-lying ground c. 140m from the S shore of Lough Melvin and within the graveyard (LE005-003002-) of Rossinver close to the SE angle of the church (LE005-003001-). A cross slab of sandstone (Wth 0.53m; H 0.56m plus; T 8-10cm) has an incised cross with expanded terminals. (Hartnett 1954c; Herity et al. 1997, 105, 005) See the attached image: Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 June, 2017

• LE005-003006 Cross-slab
  Description

  Situated on flat, low-lying ground c. 150m from the S shore of Lough Melvin and within the graveyard (LE005-003002-). A tapering cross slab (H 0.73m; Wth 0.32-0.39m; T 5cm)) has a circular cross-head in false relief (Hartnett 1954, 180-1). (Hartnett 1954c; Herity et al. 1997, 105, 006) See the attached image: Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 3 July, 2017

• LE005-003007 Cupmarked stone
  Description

  Situated on flat, low-lying ground c. 150m from the S shore of Lough Melvin and within the graveyard (LE005-003002-) of Rossinver church. A stone (Wth 0.5m; H 0.29m-0.33m plus; T 0.09m) with two cup-marks is re-used as a headstone. (Weir 1980, 173-4) See the attached image: Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 3 July, 2017

• LE005-003009 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Davies (1946b, 77) describes an architectural fragment (L 0.62m; H 0.26m; T 0.16-0.17m) with a portion of a trefoil-headed arcade in relief on it, which might have come from a tomb face, which is set up as a grave-marker. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 3 July, 2017

• LE005-003010 Earthwork
  Description

  An overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5m; H 1.5m) curves N and W (C 20m) from the site of St Mogue’s well (LE005-003003-), but there is no indication that it was the bank of a rath. It may be part of the earthwork known as the ‘Whiskey Ditch’ that was an S-shaped earthen bank, which was used to provide shelter from the elements to visitors to St Mogue’s church and well (Fuaghnan 1943, No. 126). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January, 2015

Architectural heritage

• Rossinver Post Office, house, 1925–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built in 1926 by Mr. John Crowel, with post office to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Whitewashed walls with rendered plinth course. Timber sash windows with stucco surrounds and stone sills. Replacement uPVC windows to rear elevation. Projecting gable-fronted windbreak with replacement timber door and overlight. Cast-iron post box and timber name board to front wall. Outbuilding to south-east with pitched corrugated-iron roof and whitewashed walls. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding to west end with whitewashed walls with external steps leading to upper storey, abutting west gable of post office building.

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

Terrain model

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

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 Gubalaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Gubalaun · Gob an Láin

Area

866,377 m² (86.64 ha, 214.09 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Melvin, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Conray, Drumanure, Eden, Gubnageer, Sraud (Conolly)

Placenames

Gubalaun 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.