Ballysundrivan
Ballysundrivan is a townland in the civil parish of Aughrim, barony of Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 650388
- Area
- 139,228 m² (13.92 ha, 34.4 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 505 m².
- 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
- Ballysundrivan
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 2 recorded monuments.
- RO016-021001 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the W end of an E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 38m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.9-2m) separated by a fosse (at N: Wth of top 9m; Wth of base 6.7m; D 0.6m) from an outer bank (at N: Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m) SW-N-SE, which has been largely re-built. The entrance (Wth 4.5m) and causeway (Wth 3-4m) are at ESE, but the outer edge of the fosse is truncated by an E-W road bank at S, and the perimeter at SW has been quarried. Cashel (RO016-021002-) was built on the mound. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO016-021002 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On top of the platform of rath (RO016-021001-) at the W end of an E-W ridge.. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 30m) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.7-3m; H 0.3m) with no visible evidence of facing stones or of an entrance. 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 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.
- 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
- 144.6 ha
- 357 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 6,205 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysundrivan, from 62 m² to 266,642 m² (26.66 ha, 65.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballysundrivan 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
21 Feb 2025Conditional
Permission for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, access onto the public road and associated site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560058
17 Sept 2024Refused
Permission for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, on site wastewater treatment system, access onto the public road and associated site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460438
15 Dec 2021Refused
Permission to erect a new dwelling house, domestic garage and provide a sewerage system and a treatment plant, to provide secondary and tertiary treatment and all associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21707
17 Nov 2021N/a
permission to erect a new dwelling house and provide a sewerage system and treatment plant, to provide secondary and tertiary treatment and all associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21651
11 Sept 2018Conditional
Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house, detached garage, entrance boundary wall/fence, and wastewater treatment unit with percolation area, together with all associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18458
22 Aug 2018N/a
Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary wall/fence and wastewater treatment unit with percolation area, together with all associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18418
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 Ballysundrivan.
Recorded monuments
- RO016-021001 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the W end of an E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 38m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.9-2m) separated by a fosse (at N: Wth of top 9m; Wth of base 6.7m; D 0.6m) from an outer bank (at N: Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m) SW-N-SE, which has been largely re-built. The entrance (Wth 4.5m) and causeway (Wth 3-4m) are at ESE, but the outer edge of the fosse is truncated by an E-W road bank at S, and the perimeter at SW has been quarried. Cashel (RO016-021002-) was built on the mound. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO016-021002 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On top of the platform of rath (RO016-021001-) at the W end of an E-W ridge.. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 30m) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.7-3m; H 0.3m) with no visible evidence of facing stones or of an entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO016-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the E edge of a N-S spur. Described as a circular area (diam. 35.5m) surrounded by the remnants of two earthen banks and a fosse (Gannon 1972). It is not visible today at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO016-028001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a terrace overlooking lower ground immediately to the W and NW. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 33.5m N-S; 30.5m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 5.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) at NW and SE-S, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m at E to 1.4m at W) elsewhere. The entrance (Wth 3.25), partially revetted with stone, is at ENE. A rectangular house site (RO016-028002-) (dims 9.5m ENE-WSW; 7.5m NNW-SSE) defined by a slight scarp is at the centre. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO016-028002 House - indeterminate date
Description
At the centre of a rath (RO016-028001-). Subrectangular grass-covered area (ext. dims. 9.5m ENE-WSW; 7.5m NNW-SSE) defined by a slight scarp. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO016-075 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low hillock. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 35.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 5m; int. H 0.4m; ext H 1.7m) NW-NNE and ESE-SSE, and by a scarp (H 1.5-1.8m) elsewhere. An outer fosse (Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.2m) NW-N is represented by a berm (Wth 3.5-4m) S-NW. There is no visible entrance, and a quarry has damaged the perimeter at NE. 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 Ballysundrivan.
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 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballysundrivan.
- 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 Ballysundrivan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Ballysundrivan
- Area
- 1,446,222 m² (144.62 ha, 357.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aughrim, and its townlands
- Barony
- Frenchpark
- Electoral division
- Creeve, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 137 people lived in 54 households in the Creeve electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Assaun, Attiaghygrana, Ballyhollaghan, Boherroe, Carrowreagh, Cartron, Corbally West, Erriblagh, Moheedian, Rathardeagher, Ryefield or Runnateggal
- Placenames
- Ballysundrivan 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.