Knockalaghta (Wills)

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockalaghta (Wills), from 92 m² to 273,227 m² (27.32 ha, 67.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Knockalaghta (Wills) 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.

• 8 Nov 2021Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of upgrading of existing septic tank to new domestic waste water treatment system with new percolation area and all associated site works and services relating to the above at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21636

• 9 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission for development which will consist of: 1.) Demolition of 10 sq.m of non-original rear porch; 2) Demolition of 29 sq.m turf shed; 3) Construction of 87 sq.m of domestic extension to the rear and side of the existing dwelling along with associated internal & external alterations and renovation works to the existing dwelling; and all associated site works and services relating to the above at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21318

• 20 May 2021N/a

  for development which will consist of : 1. Demolition of 10 sq. m of non-original rear porch; 2. Demolition of 29 sq m. turf shed; 3. Construction of 87 sq.m of domestic extension to the rear and side of the existing dwelling along with associated internal and external alterations and renovation works to the existing dwelling; and all associated site works and services relating to the above at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21260

• 28 Mar 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a 30m metre high, free standing lattice structure, carrying antennae and dishes, with associated ground-mounted equipment cabinets, shared with third party operators, within a 2.4 metre high palisade compound at ESB Telecoms Ballintober Telecoms Compound

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18145

• 5 Mar 2018N/a

  for the construction of a 30m metre high, free standing lattice structure, carrying antennae and dishes, with associated ground-mounted equipment cabinets, shared with third party operators within a 2.4 metre high palisade compound at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1892

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 Knockalaghta (Wills).

Recorded monuments

• RO027-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a subcircular embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 40m x c. 35m) on the 1837 and 1927 eds of the OS6-inch map, and situated on top of a broad, low hill. It is not visible at ground level in pasture but it was probably a rath. 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 Knockalaghta (Wills).

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

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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockalaghta (Wills).

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 Knockalaghta (Wills) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Knockalaghta (Wills) · Cnoc an Leachta (Wills)

Area

1,358,270 m² (135.83 ha, 335.64 acres)

Civil parish

Ballintober, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Ballintober, the unit of the census

Census 2022

855 people lived in 317 households in the Ballintober electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bohagh, Enfield, Knockalaghta (Sandford), Raveege, Willsgrove

Placenames

Knockalaghta (Wills) 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.