Church Hill
Church Hill is a townland in the civil parish of Ardcarn, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 680311
- Area
- 121,112 m² (12.11 ha, 29.93 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 165 m².
- 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
- Church Hill
Planning applications on this parcel
31 Aug 2018Conditional
Planning permission for construction of a forestry road and entrance onto the public road for the thinning/extraction of timber to existing forestry and associated site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18440
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Drumharlow 001643
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 4 recorded monuments.
- RO007-038001 Church
Description
On the lower S-facing slopes of a rise, c. 80m from the N shore of an arm (dims c. 750m N-S; c. 350m E-W) of Lough Eidin, and probably a chapel-of-ease serving a portion of Arcarn parish on this shore of the lough. This is a rectangular structure (int. dims 17.6m NE-SW; 8.5m NW-SE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.3-2.5m; H 0.2-0.5m) within a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 35m N-S) which has the straight side at N. There is no evidence of burial although there is local knowledge of bones (RO007-038004-) having been found SE of the church. There is a bullaun stone (RO007-038002-) of limestone (dims 0.60m x 0.55m; H 0.5m) with a central, circular basin (diam. 0.3m; D 0.19m) within the church. A low scarp c. 22m E of the church may represent part of an original enclosure (RO007-038003-). Archaeological testing (19E0066) for a forestry road at the W edge of the field c. 50m distant produced no related material (Henry 2019: excavations.ie 2019:561). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 Amended: 28 October 2020
- RO007-038002 Bullaun stone
Description
There is a bullaun stone of limestone (dims 0.60m x 0.55m; H 0.5m) with a central, circular basin (diam. 0.3m; D 0.19m) within the church (RO007-038001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO007-038003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
There is a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 35m N-S) around the church (RO007-038001-) which has the straight side at N, but there is no evidence of burial (RO006-038004-). A low scarp c. 22m E of the church may represent part of an original enclosure. Archaeological testing (19E0066) for a forestry road at the W edge of the field and immediately W of this feature produced no related material (Henry 2019: excavations.ie 2019:561). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 Amended: 28 October 2020
- RO007-038004 Burial
Description
There is no evidence of burial within the enclosure (RO007-038003-), although there is local knowledge of bones found SE of the church (RO007-038001-). 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 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 moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1421 (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.
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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
- 47.3 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 3,114 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Church Hill, from 408 m² to 127,948 m² (12.79 ha, 31.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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
No zone of a development plan covers Church Hill 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
31 Aug 2018Conditional
Planning permission for construction of a forestry road and entrance onto the public road for the thinning/extraction of timber to existing forestry and associated site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18440
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Drumharlow 001643
Recorded monuments
- RO007-038001 Church
Description
On the lower S-facing slopes of a rise, c. 80m from the N shore of an arm (dims c. 750m N-S; c. 350m E-W) of Lough Eidin, and probably a chapel-of-ease serving a portion of Arcarn parish on this shore of the lough. This is a rectangular structure (int. dims 17.6m NE-SW; 8.5m NW-SE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.3-2.5m; H 0.2-0.5m) within a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 35m N-S) which has the straight side at N. There is no evidence of burial although there is local knowledge of bones (RO007-038004-) having been found SE of the church. There is a bullaun stone (RO007-038002-) of limestone (dims 0.60m x 0.55m; H 0.5m) with a central, circular basin (diam. 0.3m; D 0.19m) within the church. A low scarp c. 22m E of the church may represent part of an original enclosure (RO007-038003-). Archaeological testing (19E0066) for a forestry road at the W edge of the field c. 50m distant produced no related material (Henry 2019: excavations.ie 2019:561). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 Amended: 28 October 2020
- RO007-038002 Bullaun stone
Description
There is a bullaun stone of limestone (dims 0.60m x 0.55m; H 0.5m) with a central, circular basin (diam. 0.3m; D 0.19m) within the church (RO007-038001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO007-038003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
There is a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 35m N-S) around the church (RO007-038001-) which has the straight side at N, but there is no evidence of burial (RO006-038004-). A low scarp c. 22m E of the church may represent part of an original enclosure. Archaeological testing (19E0066) for a forestry road at the W edge of the field and immediately W of this feature produced no related material (Henry 2019: excavations.ie 2019:561). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 Amended: 28 October 2020
- RO007-038004 Burial
Description
There is no evidence of burial within the enclosure (RO007-038003-), although there is local knowledge of bones found SE of the church (RO007-038001-). 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 Church Hill.
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 Church Hill, 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 moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1421 (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 Church Hill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Church Hill
- Area
- 473,449 m² (47.34 ha, 116.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardcarn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Tumna South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 207 people lived in 89 households in the Tumna South electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghmagurthan, Dergraw, Drumsillagh, Gortleck, Moigh
- Placenames
- Church Hill 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.