Acres

84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Acres, from 4 m² to 169,238 m² (16.92 ha, 41.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Acres 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 Aug 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct 4 No. 3-Bed Town Houses, together with all boundary treatments, road services, pre-treatment system and all ancillary site development works and connection to all public services at

  Permission, 4 homes · Roscommon County Council, 2560414

• 14 Nov 2023Refused

  Outline permission for to construct 11 no. houses. The development shall consist of 7 no. detached and 4 no. semi-detached dwellings with ancillary works at

  Outline permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360216

• 26 Oct 2023N/a

  Outline permission to construct 11 No. houses. The development shall consist of 7 No. detached and 4 No. semi-detached dwellings at

  Outline permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360188

• 6 Jul 2020N/a

  to remove existing shed and mobile home and construct 3 no. detached houses at

  Outline permission, 3 homes · Roscommon County Council, 20253

• 11 Jun 2020N/a

  to remove existing shed and mobile home and construct 3 no. detached houses at

  Outline permission · Roscommon County Council, 20207

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 Acres.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Acres.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Acres.

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

At the centre of the townland of Acres, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Acres.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Acres with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Acres · Na hAcraí

Area

478,944 m² (47.89 ha, 118.35 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacumsy, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Kilmacumsy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

473 people lived in 194 households in the Kilmacumsy/kilcolagh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcolagh, Dooneen, Knockglass, Lackan, Oldtown

Placenames

Acres 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.