Crowsgap
Crowsgap is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmeane, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 649746
- Area
- 108,228 m² (10.82 ha, 26.74 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Crowsgap
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- RO042-052 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
Towards the bottom of a gentle NE-facing slope of Moydow Hill. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 63.5m ENE-WSW; 56.5m NNW-SSE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.1m; int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.75-1.15m) with the straight side at NW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO042-051----) is c. 175m to the WSW and rath (RO042-025----) is c. 200m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 34.3 ha
- 85 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 68,098 m² (6.81 ha, 16.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crowsgap, from 31,911 m² (3.19 ha, 7.89 acres) to 108,228 m² (10.82 ha, 26.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Crowsgap 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
31 May 2018Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage and to install a treatment system and percolation area at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18263
8 Jun 2017Conditional
to retain domestic storage sheds at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 17252
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Crowsgap.
Recorded monuments
- RO042-053 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a hachured feature only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of the N end of a low NNW-ESE ridge. Oval grass-covered area (dims 53m N-S; c. 36m E-W) defined by slight traces of a fosse (at W: Wth of top 6.3m; int. D 0.35m; ext. D 0.35m) S-W-NE with a slight scarp (H 0.2m) elsewhere. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO042-054 Sweathouse
Description
On a gentle ENE-facing slope, with a house c. 150m to the ESE. Oval drystone-built structure (int. dims 1.4m N-S; 1.1m E-W; max. H 0.75m) within the remnants of a mound (diam. c. 2m) which would have opened to the N, but neither the doorway nor the roof survive. 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 Crowsgap.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crowsgap.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Crowsgap with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Crowsgap
- Area
- 342,549 m² (34.25 ha, 84.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Athleague East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 510 people lived in 184 households in the Athleague East electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cartronperagh, Kilcash, Kilglass, Lisdaulan, Moneymore
- Placenames
- Crowsgap 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.