Grallagh

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grallagh, from 12 m² to 115,293 m² (11.53 ha, 28.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Grallagh 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.

• 9 Sept 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new Treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360106

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 Grallagh.

Recorded monuments

• RO014-051 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a level landscape at the bottom of a N-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 31.6m N-S; 28.1m E-W) defined by the foundations of a stone wall or an earthen bank with facing stones (Wth 1-1.3m) N-S-W with an overgrown stone spread or earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5-1.2m; ext. H 0.7-1.1m) elsewhere. The entrance (Wth 0.7m) at SW is stone-lined with a large stone (dims 1.1m x 0.9m; H 0.9m) on the SE side. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO014-052001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a steep N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 42.3m N-S; 39m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at W: Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.4m; at E: Wth 5.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1m) N-NE and SW-W, and a fosse which only survives as a re-cut drain (Wth of base 3m; D 0.6m) SW-WNW. An entrance (Wth 2m) at SE is probably modern or modernized, and there is a clearance cairn (RO014-052002-) (dims 7m x 5m; H 0.9m) inside the bank at SE. The possible ringfort (RO014-055----) is c. 200m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO014-052002 Cairn - clearance cairn
  Description

  There is a clearance cairn (dims 7m x 5m; H 0.9m) inside the bank of rath (RO014-052001-) at SE, which has been misinterpreted as a hut-site (Gannon 1972). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO014-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped feature, and situated on a gentle N-facing slope. An arc of a bank (at S: Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) survives S-NW (C c. 55m). It is bisected by an E-W field bank, from which a field bank runs S which truncates the perimeter at S. There is an E-W drain outside the perimeter at S. The interior is grass-covered N of the E-W field bank and scrub-covered S of it. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO014-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a level landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38.8m E-W; 35.8m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.8-6m; int. H 0.9-1.1m; ext. H 0.8m at S to 2.4m at N), and an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.8m; D 0.6m) N-ENE. The entrance (Wth 3.2m) is at ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO014-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as an oval enclosure (dims c. 65m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by a field bank S-W-N and a relict bank or fosse N-E-S on the 1914 ed. Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO014-052001-) is c. 200m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Grallagh, about 1 in 5 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 Grallagh.

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

Name

Grallagh

Area

1,591,955 m² (159.2 ha, 393.38 acres)

Civil parish

Tibohine, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Fairymount, the unit of the census

Census 2022

332 people lived in 134 households in the Fairymount electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonfinglas, Leitrim, Lisdrumneill, Lisduff, Mullaghnashee

Placenames

Grallagh 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.