Acres

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Acres, from 7 m² to 272,015 m² (27.2 ha, 67.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Acres 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.

• 21 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for erection of extension to existing dwelling house and for demolition of domestic garage at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460548

• 3 Apr 2024N/a

  Permission for development to construct a new 3 Bay Double Sided Slatted Sheep Shed, together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2449

• 25 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of the construction of a proposed new daycare centre, including activities and day room, kitchen facilities, administration office, medical examination room, sanitary facilities, storage and all ancillary spaces. The development will also include upgrade works to the existing access road off the roundabout, extension to the existing spur road into the site, drop-off zone, car parking, new external landscaping, bin store, new boundary fencing, new signage, lighting, connection to existing services and all other associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360186

• 21 Aug 2023Conditional

  Permission for retention of a 102m2 storage shed to the rear of existing nursing home together with all other associated site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2360063

• 12 Sept 2019Conditional

  permissionfor the development of an upgraded wastewater pumping station. The proposed development will comprise: The upgrade of the existing Ardsallagh wastewater pumping station incorporating a new below ground stormwater holding tank, and associated interconnecting pipework ( A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application) at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19464

• 28 Aug 2019N/a

  upgrade of the existing Ardsallagh wastewater pumping station incorporating a new below ground stormwater holding tank and associated interconnecting pipework. ( A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted to the Planning Authority with this application) at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19430

• 12 Feb 2019Conditional

  to demolish an existing disused sheep shed and sheep handling unit and replace this structure with a new 5 bay cattle loose house/calving pens, together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1958

• 17 Jan 2019N/a

  to demolish an existing disused Sheep Shed and Sheep Handling Unit and replace the structure with a new 5 Bay Cattle Loose House/Calving Pens, together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1913

• 26 Oct 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a dormer extension to the front (west) elevation of existing dwelling together with a single storey extension to rear (east) and to also include elevational alterations to the front and rear elevations along with connections to services and all other associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17439

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 Acres.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Acres.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Acres.

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 Acres, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1400 (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.

No address of the register names Acres with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Acres

Area

583,667 m² (58.37 ha, 144.23 acres)

Civil parish

Roscommon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober South

Electoral division

Roscommon Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,513 people lived in 1,881 households in the Roscommon Rural electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardsallagh Beg, Ardsallagh More, Carrowroe, Cloonybeirne, Creevyquin, Killarney

Placenames

Acres 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.