Toomona

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toomona, from 2,059 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 335,709 m² (33.57 ha, 82.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Toomona 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Toomona in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Toomona.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-102001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the N-facing crest of a broad E-W ridge. Described in 1979 as a D-shaped area (dims 28m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by scarps (H 1.5m at N) with traces of a bank E-S-W, probably upcast from quarries, but with no visible fosse or entrance (SMR file). It is now visible as an oval area (dims c. 31m NE-SW; c. 26m NW-SE) defined by an interrupted band of lush vegetation (Wth 3m at NW to 7m at S). It is within field system (RO022-102002-) and rath (RO028-007-) is c. 170m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-102002 Field system
  Description

  On a broad E-W pasture ridge. The rath (RO022-102001-) was described in 1979 as being within a later field system of large rectangular fields (SMR file), and three relict field banks (L c. 500m) placed c. 100m apart can be seen running E-W on aerial photographs (ACAP: V206/5, 6). These are no longer visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-104001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-facing slope. Described in 1979 as a circular area (diam. 34m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an earthen bank S-W-NE (H c. 1m) and a scarp elsehwhere. The perimeter at E was overlain by a NE-SW field bank of a relict field system (RO022-104002-) of small rectangular fields covering c. 10 ha (c. 25 acres) (SMR file). It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-104002 Field system
  Description

  On a N-facing slope. The perimeter of rath (RO022-104001-) at E was overlain in 1979 by a NE-SW field bank of a relict field system of small rectangular fields covering c. 10 ha (c. 25 acres) (SMR file). No fields are visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-006 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: V206/5-6), and situated on a gentle S-facing slope. A grass-covered berm (Wth 10-15m) aligned WNW-ESE (L c. 500m) and defined by scarps down to the S (H 0.2-0.3m) extends E from the rectangular enclosure (RO028-005----) towards the junction of roads (RO028-008001-) and (RO028-008002-) but disappearing c. 350m short of this point. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-007001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the E end of a broad E-W ridge. Described in 1979 as a circular area (diam. 29m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by an earthen bank SSE-NW and a scarp (H c. 1m at N) elsewhere, with traces of a fosse N-NE and an entrance (Wth c. 4m) at E (SMR file). It is now visible as a circular grass-covered area (diam 31.5m E-W; 30.7m N-S) defined by the lush growth of a fosse (Wth 3.5-4.5m) with an entrance gap (Wth 4m) at E. It is within field system (RO022-102002-) and rath (RO022-102001-) is c. 170m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-008001 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: V206/5-6) extending NW-SE and crossing the E end of a low E-W ridge (L. c. 600 m) at its N end. On the S side of the ridge it is crossed by the NE-SW Tulsk - Castlerea road (R 367) and its NW end terminates where it meets the Ogulla - Rathmoyle road. Between these public roads it appears to have been a path (Wth c. 10m) bounded at W by and earthen bank and at E by a field wall. It is no longer visible at ground level. Between the two public roads this road was crossed by a NE-SW road (RO028-008002-), which is no longer visible, extending from Toomona friary (RO028-009001-) at the SW end to the vicinity of Ogulla well (RO022-106003-) (L c. 1.2 km). About 300m NE of Toomona friary this road was distinct (L c. 350m; Wth c. 5m) bounded by earthen banks as far as the junction with (RO028-008001-) but was less certain as it approached Ogulla. Most of this road is no longer visible. About 400m S of the Tulsk - Castlerea road (R367) there was a section (L c. 200m) bounded by earthen banks, which no longer survives. This section may have extended ESE (L c. 900m) to meet the roads (RO028-065001-) and (RO028-062001-). The road (RO028-006----) approaches the junction of roads (RO028-008001-) and (RO028-008002-) from the W, but disappears c. 350m short of this point. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 July 2015

• RO028-008002 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: V206/5-6) extending SW-NE from Toomona House at the SW to the vicinity of Ogulla well (L c. 1.2 km). About 300m NE of Toomona friary (RO028-009001-) this road was distinct (L c. 350m; Wth c. 5m) bounded by earthen banks as far as the junction with (RO028-008001-) but was less certain as it approached Ogulla. It is no longer visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-009001 Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular
  Description

  On an undulating low-lying landscape. A friary which may have been Dominican or Franciscan was founded here by O'Conor Rua, probably in the 15th century. In 1585 when it was granted to Edward Crofton it was described as Friancisan Third Order, and consisted of a church, cemetery and a quarter of land (Gwynn and Hadcock 1980, 275; Gormley 1989, 147-8). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Field system (RO-028-010---) is just to the SW, on the other side of a NW-SE stream, and the road (RO028-008002-) runs NE towards Ogulla well (RO022-106003-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-218 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Toomona House is marked on a map of 1777. This is a 5-bay, 2 storey house with a porch. It was built by O'Conor Roe, but the family appears to have died out with the death of Peter O'Conor in the 1830s. The house passed to the French family of Rocksavage, Co. Carlow, and later in the nineteenth century it was owned by the Lynham and Flanagan families. In the 20th century it was owned by Murphys from Holymount, Co. Mayo, and by Fallons from Carrowroe. It has been restored recently by its present owner, who found evidence that it may have had extensions on the ground floor to the N and W. (Moffatt 2009) 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 Toomona.

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 Toomona, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Toomona

Area

1,045,938 m² (104.59 ha, 258.46 acres)

Civil parish

Ogulla, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Ogulla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

399 people lived in 161 households in the Ogulla electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Carrowgarve, Carrownaskeagh, Drimnagh, Lissawaddy, Ogulla, Rathkeva, Rathnaglye

Placenames

Toomona 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.