Glentaun
Glentaun is a townland in the civil parish of Creagh, barony of Moycarn, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is An Gleanntán.
Parcel 659990
- Area
- 86,499 m² (8.65 ha, 21.37 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
- Glentaun
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.
- RO053-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 48m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by an eroded earthen bank and hedge (Wth 3.7-5.7m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.1-0.6m) which is reduced to a scarp at NE and W (H 1.5m) and largely removed ENE-SE. This is an outer bank, but there is no visible outer fosse or identifiable original entrance. The remains of an inner bank (Wth 3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.8m; L 12m) is separated by a berm or fosse (Wth 2m) from the outer bank at 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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1378 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 63 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 1,819 m²
- Zoning
- N1.5
- Transport Infrastructure
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glentaun, from 36 m² to 99,760 m² (9.98 ha, 24.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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
- N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Jan 2025Conditional
Permission to erect extension to commercial premises and to carry out all necessary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560025
28 Apr 2023Conditional
Permission to erect a garage with office accommodation for the purposes of carrying our car repairs/ valeting and to construct all ancillary site works to facilitate same at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23161
7 Nov 2019Conditional
permission for development consisting of a new dwelling house with a new site access and connection to the public sewer at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19576
13 Sept 2019Conditional
retention permission for revisions to site layout details to include for minor revisions to house location and to site boundary details for two dwelling houses erected under PD/99/1311 at
Retention, 2 homes · Roscommon County Council, 19471
17 Apr 2019Conditional
to carry out alterations to proposed garage previously granted under Planning Register Reference No. 17/496 by extending same, provision of offices, toilet etc and altering the external finishes together with ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19195
5 Apr 2019N/a
to carry out alterations to proposed garage previously granted under Planning Register Reference No. 17/496 by extending same, provision of offices, toilet etc and altering the external finishes together with ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19173
1 Mar 2019Conditional
to demolish an existing disused dwelling house and garage and replace with a new dwelling house and garage/fuel store and all associated site development works including a new connection to the public foul sewer in the townland of
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1995
11 Feb 2019N/a
Permission to demolish an existing disused dwelling house and garage and replace with a new dwelling house and garage and all associated site development works
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1955
14 Dec 2017Conditional
Planning permission to erect a garage and office and to construct ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17496
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 Glentaun.
Recorded monuments
- RO053-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 48m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by an eroded earthen bank and hedge (Wth 3.7-5.7m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.1-0.6m) which is reduced to a scarp at NE and W (H 1.5m) and largely removed ENE-SE. This is an outer bank, but there is no visible outer fosse or identifiable original entrance. The remains of an inner bank (Wth 3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.8m; L 12m) is separated by a berm or fosse (Wth 2m) from the outer bank at NW. 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 Glentaun.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Glentaun, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1378 (ZIP).
- 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 Glentaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Glentaun · An Gleanntán
- Area
- 629,700 m² (62.97 ha, 155.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Creagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycarn
- Electoral division
- Creagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,005 people lived in 370 households in the Creagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Beagh (Brabazon), Glentaun (Co. Galway), Kilgarve (Co. Galway), Kilgarve, Parkmore, Tonalig
- Placenames
- Glentaun 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.