Friarshill

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Friarshill, from 138 m² to 52,026 m² (5.2 ha, 12.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 30 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M5Outer Core (Other mix of uses)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 1 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission for development which will consist of removal of external metal fire exit staircase, demolition of roadside boundary wall, demolition of three no. single-storey blocks, demolition of two-storey toilet block and links, partial demolition of single-storey bungalow, construction of two-storey and single-storey extension consisting of mainstream classrooms accommodation, multi-purpose room, two-storey fire exits, ancillary facilities and special needs education facility, energy upgrade with PV array on flat roof, extension and upgrade of existing foul drainage network connecting to existing public sewer, surface water connected to new attenuation tank with hydrobrake linking to existing surface water drain, reconfiguration and extension of car park, bus drop-off, bicycle parking, street lighting, EV charging, boundaries and other associated siteworks at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560142

• 26 Mar 2025N/a

  The development will consist of removal of external metal fire exit staircase, demolition of roadside boundary wall, demolition of three no. single-storey blocks, demolition of two-storey toilet block and links, partial demolition of single-storey bungalow, construction of two-storey and single-storey extension consisting of mainstream classrooms accommodation, multi-purpose room, two-storey fire exits, ancillary facilities and special needs education facility, energy upgrade with PV array on flat roof, extension and upgrade of existing foul drainage network connecting to existing public sewer, surface water connected to new attenuation tank with hydrobrake linking to existing surface water drain, reconfiguration and extension of car park, bus drop-off, bicycle parking, street lighting, EV charging, boundaries and other associated siteworks.

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560131

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  Permission to install 12 No 6m high public lighting columns with LED lanterns and 12 No outdoor fitness equipment pieces and all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360017

• 24 Oct 2022Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of the construction of an agricultural access to a greenfield site at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22574

• 18 Oct 2022N/a

  Permission for development consisting of the construction of an agricultural access to a greenfield site at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22557

• 13 Jul 2017Conditional

  The development consisting of change of use of part of the existing convent building from residential to office and extension to the building at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17314

• 20 Feb 2017Conditional

  to install flood lighting, comprising 4 No. 18m high lampposts and all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1770

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 Friarshill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Friarshill.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Convent, convent/nunnery, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gothic Revival convent complex, built in 1876 to a design by J.J. O' Callaghan, comprising four-bay two-storey convent abutting chapel to north, with nun's graveyard and walled orchard to south-west and gate lodge with gates to north. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs with coping to gable ends, stone cross finials, cut stone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rock-faced stone walls with plinth, string course to top and bottom of ground floor windows, tooled stone quoins and projecting gable-fronted northern bay. Entrance to chapel with pointed-arched opening with timber panelled double doors with hoodmoulding, tooled stone surround and glazed fanlight with stone mullions. Two door openings to south elevation with tooled stone surrounds and replacement doors. One square-headed opening with sidelight the other shouldered-arched opening with tooled block-and-start limestone surround surmounted by paired windows. uPVC windows with tooled stone block-and-start surround, stone sills and chamfered reveals. Paired pointed-arched openings above door. Chapel with two-stage belfry, entrance porch to north. Pointed-arched stained glass windows to chapel and rose window. Graveyard bounded by rendered wall, cast-iron gates with rendered piers. Cast-iron cross grave markers, some in circular arrangement around stone cross. Random coursed wall surrounds orchard. Two-bay single-storey gate lodge with hipped slate roof, rendered chimneystack, rendered walls and replacement doors and windows. Cut stone gate piers with wrought-iron gates give access to convent complex.

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 Friarshill, 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. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Friarshill · Cnocán an Bhráthar

Area

106,754 m² (10.68 ha, 26.38 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballaghaderreen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,254 people lived in 1,218 households in the Ballaghaderreen electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghaderreen, Glebe, Knockanaconny, Toomanagh

Placenames

Friarshill 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.