Turlagh

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turlagh, from 166 m² to 465,987 m² (46.6 ha, 115.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Turlagh 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.

• 30 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission for a Farm Road on lands at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460040

• 26 Jan 2018Conditional

  Full planning permission for a sheep shed and ancillary concrete works on lands at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1822

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 Turlagh.

Recorded monuments

• RO045-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 45m NW-SE) defined by a slight broad rise (at SSE: Wth 6m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.4m) SE-W-NW, and slight traces of an outer fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.35m) WSW-NW, but the perimeter merges into the slope NW-E-SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the SW edge of a basin. A subcircular grass-covered earthen mound (diam. of base 11m NW-SE; 9.5m NE-SW; H 1.5m) with stones may be a spoil mound from the removal of an enclosure. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-033001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated towards the bottom of a W-facing slope, overlooking a basin to the W and a slight S-N valley to the NNE. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33.6m NW-SE; 30.7m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-5.8m; int. H 0.8-1.6m; ext. H 1-1.6m), which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge with slight traces of an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.2m) S-W-NE. There is a modernised entrance (Wth 3.3m) at SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Just off the crest of the NE-facing slope of a W-E spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37.8m NNW-SSE; 34.6m ENE-WSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth 5.8m; int H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) which is best preserved (Wth 7.4m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 2.35m) at W separated by a complete fosse (Wth 5-6.7m; ext. D 0.7-1m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.6m; ext. H 0.4m) NW-NE. There are modern entrances with causeways at ESE and NNW, and it is circumscribed by a field wall W-N-ESE, which forms the townland boundary with Barnacullen to the N. Rath (RO045-036----) is c. 95m to the NE and rath (RO045-040----) is c. 180m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-038 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  At the summit of a broad NNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered and domed mound (diam. 21.8m NW-SE; 21.5m NE-SW; H 1.55-2.5m) defined by a fosse (Wth of base 1-2.2m; D 0.55-0.7m), with an outer bank (at NW: Wth 11.8m; ext. H 0.8m) WSW-N-ENE on the downslope side (ext. diam. c. 40m NW-SE). There is a small drystone-built structure on the summit of the mound. Barrow (RO045-039----) is c. 45m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-039 Barrow - stepped barrow
  Description

  At the summit of a broad NNW-ESE ridge. The name 'Sheegort' is derived from Ceat Magach, one of Queen Meave's warriors, according to local tradition (Gannon 1972). Subcircular grass and scrub-covered mound (dims of top 33.8m NE-SW; 28.5m NW-SE; dim. of base 40m NW-SE; H 4.6m at NW and SE) with a dished summit (diam. of hollow 21m NW-SE; D 1-1.6m) that may be the result of ancient quarrying. At the base is a fosse (Wth of base 3.2-4.5m; D 1-2m) and there is a ramp onto the mound at NNE (max. ext. diam. 54.4m NW-SE). Barrow (RO045-038----) is c. 45m to the NNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the NE-facing shoulder of a W-E spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.4m NW-SE) defined by the remains of an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m) which is not visible N-E. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Raths (RO045-037----; RO045-041----; RO045-042----) are c. 180m to the WNW, 110m to the S and 170m to the ESE respectively. 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 Turlagh.

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 Turlagh, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Turlagh

Area

1,004,173 m² (100.42 ha, 248.14 acres)

Civil parish

Rahara, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Scregg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

556 people lived in 201 households in the Scregg electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagh, Barnacullen, Highbog, Kellybrook

Placenames

Turlagh 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.