Willsbrook

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Willsbrook, from 141 m² to 77,180 m² (7.72 ha, 19.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Willsbrook 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.

• 12 Mar 2024Conditional

  Permission for the decommissioning of an existing septic tank and the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all ancillary site work at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460125

• 3 Aug 2023N/a

  Retention permission for a static caravan to be placed on the driveway to the right of the property whilst essential renovations are being carried out at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23330

• 9 Jun 2023N/a

  Permission for a static caravan to be placed on the driveway to the right of the property whilst essential renovations are being carried out on the property at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23246

• 4 May 2023N/a

  Permission for a static caravan to be placed on the driveway to the right of the property at F45 XO18 whilst essential renovations are being carried out on the above property at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23172

• 22 Oct 2018Conditional

  Permission sought to retain alterations to elevations of existing dwelling house at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18531

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 Willsbrook.

Recorded monuments

• RO026-033 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a subcircular or D-shaped feature (dims c. 40m E-W; c. 30m N-S) abutting the S bank of an E-W section of the River Suck on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and visible as a rectangular area (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by a wide ditch backing onto the W-E River Suck at N on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 63-4). Situated on the S bank of the River Suck at a point where the river runs W-E (L c. 80m), it is not visible at ground level in pasture. The inland promontory fort (RO026-054----) is immediately across the river (Wth c. 20m) to the N. 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 Willsbrook.

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 Willsbrook, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Willsbrook

Area

1,876,749 m² (187.67 ha, 463.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeevin, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Coolougher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

509 people lived in 196 households in the Coolougher electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adragool, Beagh, Cloondacarra, Cloonfad, Cloonroughan, Shankoagh

Placenames

Willsbrook 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.