Grallagh

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grallagh, from 165 m² to 88,721 m² (8.87 ha, 21.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Grallagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Grallagh 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 the townland of Grallagh.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-056006 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  At the N end of a slight N-S ridge on the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. Circular grass-covered and flat-topped mound (diam. of base 9m E-W; 8.6m N-S; diam. of top 2.2m E-W; 2.6m N-S; H 1.5-1.8m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 2.5m) from an earthen bank (Wth 3.2-5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6-1.2m) SE-W. The bank has been levelled into the fosse to create a berm (Wth 4.2m) defined by a scarp (H 0.7-1m) W-N-SE (max. ext. diam. 22.4m E-W). Ditch-barrow (RO022-056007-) is c. 30m to the S. (Knox 1914, 40-1; Herity 1983, 131; 1984, 131, Grallagh 1; Waddell 1983, 37, No. 32; Waddell 1988, 10) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056007 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  On a slight N-S ridge on the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. Circular flat-topped grass-covered mound (diam. of top 13.7m E-W; 13.5m N-S; H 0.4-1m) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 7.8m; Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.1m) NW-NE and SE-SW (Wth of top 10m; Wth of base 2.8m; D 0.4m). The fosse is reduced to a berm (Wth 4-4.7m) defined by the natural slope NE-SE and SW-NW. There is no visible outer bank (ext. dims 31m N-S; 26m E-W). Ring-barrow (RO022-056006-) is c. 30m to the N. (Knox 1914, 41; Herity 1983, 131; 1984, 129, Grallagh 2; Waddell 1983, 37, No. 33) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056009 Pitfield
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. Pits are visible on aerial photograph (ACAP: V 206/ 32, 31; OS /4237) in an area of c. 5 ha (c. 11 acres). A band of 4 lines of ENE-WSW pits (dims c. 10m x c. 2m) create dashed lines (max. L c. 300m) in an area of c. 4 ha (c. 9 acres). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 10 July 2015

• RO022-056010 Field system
  Description

  On a gentle N-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge, and part of the unified field system at Rathcroghan. A area of c. 22 ha (c. 55 acres) contains field banks (Wth c. 3m; H 0.2-0.5m) largely reduced to low scarps forming small rectangular fields (dims c. 50m x c. 30m) with a roadway (RO022-056011-) (Wth 7m; L c. 300m) defined by low banks on either side running N-S through it. At its S end it meets a simiar ENE-WSW roadway (RO022-056058-) (L c. 300m) that continues S of the NW-SE public road. The fields (RO022-056031-) in Toberrory are c. 200m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056011 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  On a gentle N-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. A area of c. 14 ha contains field banks (RO022-056010-) largely reduced to low scarps forming small rectangular fields with a roadway (Wth 7m; L c. 300m) defined by low banks on either side running N through it. Towards the N end of its surviving length it encounters another E-W road (RO022-056058-) that survives in discontinuous sections (L c. 600m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056012 Enclosure
  Description

  On a rise in an E-W valley at the bottom of the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. Oval grass-covered hillock (dims 46m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW; H c. 2m) defined at the base by a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m) and fosse or drain (Wth c. 1m; D 0.2m) with an outer bank (Wth c. 2m; H c. 0.2m) or berm (Wth 3.4-7.3m) defined by a scarp (H 0.4-1m). There is a low mound (RO022-056013-) (diam. 6m; H 0.2m) just NE of the summit, and a NE-SW drain (Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.4-0.8m; L 15m) with upcast banks (Wth 2.5-4m; ext. H 0.2-0.3m) on either side was dug through the interior at SE. It is circumscribed by a field drain and field bank SW-W-NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056013 Mound
  Description

  On a rise in an E-W valley at the bottom of the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan within the enclosure (RO022-056012-). There is a low mound (diam. 6m; H 0.2m) just NE of the summit. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056014 Pitfield
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: V206/31, 30) and situated on a low WNW-ESE ridge An area of c. 2 ha contains lines of pits (dims c. 10m x c. 2m) aligned NW-ESE with the pits placed c. 20-30m apart. The land is now largely reclaimed an few pits are visible on the ground, although some can be seen in an area of c. 2 ha (c. 4 acres). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056058 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  On a gentle N-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. A area of c. 30 ha contains field banks (RO022-056010-) largely reduced to low scarps forming small rectangular fields with a roadway (RO022-056011-) (Wth 7m; L c. 300m) defined by low banks on either side running N through it. At its S end this road meets a similar ENE-WSW roadway (RO022-056058-) (L c. 400m). 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 Grallagh.

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 Grallagh, 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

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

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

Name

Grallagh

Area

1,194,893 m² (119.49 ha, 295.26 acres)

Civil parish

Elphin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Cloonyquin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

255 people lived in 95 households in the Cloonyquin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconboy, Ballymurray, Flaskagh More, Toberrory, Tullintuppeen

Placenames

Grallagh 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.