Turrock

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turrock, from 188 m² to 186,451 m² (18.65 ha, 46.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Turrock 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.

• 1 Mar 2024Conditional

  Planning permission to construct a fully services private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2433

• 6 Dec 2019Conditional

  Permission to construct a five bay double slatted sheep shed on lands at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19632

• 20 Jul 2017Conditional

  For demolition of existing derelict dwelling & boundary walls, construction of a replacement dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area, relocation of existing vehicular entrance and associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17321

• 30 Jun 2017Refused

  development consisting of extension to rear and to side of existing dwelling house and carrying out all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17294

• 7 Mar 2017N/a

  for demolition of existing derelict dwelling & boundary walls, proposed relocation of vehicular entrance, construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1792

• 28 Feb 2017N/a

  For demolition of existing derelict dwelling and boundary walls, proposed relocation of vehicular entrance, construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1784

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Croan Turlough SAC 000610
• Special Protection Area: Lough Croan Turlough SPA 004139
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Croan Turlough 000610

Recorded monuments

• RO044-084001 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a D-shaped field on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a hachured enclosure on the 1915 ed. It is situated at the edge of a shelf which slopes down gently to the NE. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 88.5m NW-SE; 69m NE-SW) defined by a grass-covered earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5-4.2m; int. H 0.5-0.6m; ext. H 0.5-1.8m) with the straight side at NE where the bank is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m). An outer fosse (Wth of top 3.5m; Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.8m) survives only at W (L c. 30m) where there is a sharp angle. There are entrances at NW (Wth 4.5m) and SE (Wth 14m) associated with a trackway, and there are lazy-beds in the interior. There is a tradition of its use as a children's burial ground (RO044-084003-), but no evidence of this. Enclosure (RO044-085----) is c. 120m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO044-084003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  At the edge of a shelf which slopes down gently to NE. There is a tradition of the use of enclosure (RO044-084001-) as a children's burial ground (Gannon 1972), but there is no evidence of this. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO044-085 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 473-2), and situated on a level landscape c. 100m S of Turrock Huose. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 24m NW-SE; 22.3m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-7m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.1-0.6m) on the straight W and N sides and by a fosse (Wth of top 6.5m; Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.7-1m) E-S. There is no identifiable original entrance. Just S of the monument a ditch (Wth of top 3.5m; Wth of base 1m; D 0.5m) separated by a berm (Wth 1.5m) from a second ditch (Wth of top 3.3m; Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.3m-0.6m) runs NW-SE (L c. 150m) and is a landscape feature associated with the Turrock House. Enclosure (RO044-084001-) is c. 120m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO044-086001 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Visible as a large circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 472-3), and situated on a level landscape. Circular grass-covered, but poached, area (diam. 63m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m, H 0.4m) E-SW, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4-1m) SW-NW. The monument is overlain by a NNE-SSW field wall towards the perimeter at E, and the area E of this is regarded locally as a children's burial ground (RO044-086002-). A field wall runs NW from this wall, and the perimeter of the enclosure N of this cannot be traced. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Archaeological testing (02E0443) c. 50-100m to the NW failed to recover any associated material (Read 2004p). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21st January, 2011

• RO044-086002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. The area E of a NNE-SSW field wall overlying rath (RO044-086001-) towards the perimeter at E is regarded locally as a children's burial ground, although there is no evidence of this use. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO044-107 Crannog
  Description

  Towards the NW end of the Lough Croan turlough (dims c. 3 km NW-SE; c. 200-300m NE-SW). Circular grass-covered mound (diam. 26.7m NE-SW; 25.6m NW-SE; H 0.4-1m) now bisected by a NW-SE drain that has added material to the summit (diam. c. 16m; H 0.4-0.9m) and is now grass-covered, but some animal bone is evident. See the attached image taken from the N Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO044-114 House - 17th century
  Description

  An O'Kelly castle at Turrock had been acquired by John Byrt who died in 1588, but it had been lost to Irish rebels by 1596 (Cronin 1980, 113, 117). A castle is marked at Terrig on the Strafford map of c. 1636, which probably also included the townlands of Gortaphuill and Garryphort (Simington 1949, Athlone (225)). In 1641 the four quarters of Turrock, amounting to 525 acres belonged to Michael Pinnocke, who retained the holding through the Cromwellian settlement (ibid. 110). Situated on a level landscape adjacent to Turrock House. This is a rectangular structure (int. dims 7.6m NNE-SSW; 5.25m WNW-ESE) of one storey and attic surviving complete, except the W wall where the doorway was. A fireplace projects inwards on the S gable and there is a destroyed window on each wall except the N. The joists were set directly into the walls and there are attic windows in the N and S gables. It is probably not the structure depicted on the map but it may be 17th-century in date. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 22 October, 2015

• RO047-016001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 472-3), and situated on a low knoll in an area of limestone outcrop. Circular domed and scrub-covered area (diam. 38.2m NE-SW; 36.2m NW-SE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 4-4.5m; max. H 0.8m) with no evidence of facing-stones or of an identifiable original entrance. A rectangular grass-covered enclosure or annexe (RO047-016003-) (dims 21.7m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW) defined by a stone spread is attached to the perimeter at NE. The interior is overlain by an old field wall which extends to the N and S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO047-016002 Field system
  Description

  Situated on an unreclaimed area of limestone outcrop. A grass and scrub-covered area of about 41 acres (c. 15 ha) contains a high density of rectangular plots and house remains associated with lazy-bed cultivation and dating probably to the 18th or 19th century, but some walls could relate to an earlier field system. It contains the cashel (RO047-016001-) and the fields are overlaid by a pattern of 19th century field strips (Wth c. 25m) aligned WNW-ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO047-016003 Enclosure
  Description

  A rectangular grass-covered enclosure or annexe (dims 21.7m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW) defined by a stone spread is attached to the perimeter of cashel (RO047-016001-) at NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO047-018001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and described in gothic lettering as the site of 'Turrock Fort' on the 1915 ed. It is situated in an undulating landscape. Subcircular scrub-covered area (dims 42.5m WNW-ESE; 37.8m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank best preserved WSW-NE (at NNE: Wth 8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m) with traces of a double wall facing (Wth 2.25-2.45m) best preserved W-NW and E-SE. There is no visible fosse, identifiable original entrance or internal features. The monument is overlain by four field walls meeting SW of the centre and there is some clearance spoil. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO047-081 Burial
  Description

  On a slight rise in an undulating landscape. There is local knowledge of the discovery of bones during reclamation c. 1970, after which the work was halted. There is no visible evidence of any features in reclaimed pasture. 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 Turrock.

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 Turrock, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Turrock · An Turrac

Area

2,749,207 m² (274.92 ha, 679.34 acres)

Civil parish

Taghboy, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Turrock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

322 people lived in 113 households in the Turrock electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowntlieve, Carrownurlar, Cronin, Garrynphort, Gortaphuill, Lisnagavragh, Liswilliam, Mullaghardagh

Placenames

Turrock 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.