Altagowlan

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altagowlan, from 540 m² to 518,015 m² (51.8 ha, 128 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Altagowlan 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.

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for the following: 1. To construct a story and a half type domestic dwelling, 2. To construct a domestic garage, 3. To construct a new site entrance, 4. To construct a waste water treatment system to current EPA Code of Practice, and all ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660439

• 15 Sept 2025N/a

  (i) The decommissioning and removal from site of 2 no. existing wind turbines and associated ancillary infrastructure permitted pursuant to Leitrim County Council Planning Register Reference 95/12501; and (ii) the installation of 1 no. wind turbine with an overall tip height of 125 metres, turbine foundation, hardstanding area, underground electrical and communications cabling to the existing electrical switchroom, and all associated site development, access and reinstatement works. An Appropriate Assessment Screening Report will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560239

• 21 Jul 2025Conditional

  revised design of the electricity substation permitted under Leitrim County Council Planning Register Reference 23/60047 to provide for (i) an alteration from a modular structure to a block-built structure; (ii) an increase in the overall footprint of the electricity substation from approximately 12.5 square metres to approximately 26 square metres; (iii) an increase in the height of the electricity substation from 3.35 metres to 3.96 metres; and, (iv) all associated site development works.

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560190

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Corry Mountain Bog NHA 002321

Recorded monuments

• LE020-021 Boundary mound
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 edition of the Roscommon OS 6-inch map (RO002A) where it is described in italic lettering as a 'Mound', and situated in blanket bog on the summit of a NW-SE mountain ridge bordering counties Leitrim and Roscommon. It is not visible at ground level, and was undoubtedly a boundary mound set up by the Ordinance Survey. It is the same as (RO002A-001----). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 October, 2009

• RO002A001 Boundary mound
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on blanket bog on the summit of a mountain bordering Co. Leitrim (LE020-021----). It is not visible, and was undoubtedly a boundary mound set up by the Ordinance Survey. 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 Altagowlan.

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 Altagowlan, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Altagowlan · Allt an Ghabhláin

Area

2,372,066 m² (237.21 ha, 586.15 acres)

Civil parish

Kilronan, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Altagowlan, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Glackaunadarragh (Co. Leitrim), Glen (Co. Sligo), Greaghacorra, Greaghnaglogh, Greaghnaslieve (Co. Leitrim), Lugmore (Co. Leitrim), Tullycorka (Co. Leitrim)

Placenames

Altagowlan 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.