Ardlagheen More or Highlake

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardlagheen More or Highlake, from 1,919 m² to 675,189 m² (67.52 ha, 166.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Ardlagheen More or Highlake 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.

• 15 Dec 2025N/a

  Permission for the construction of a new dwelling, site entrance, domestic garage, new treatment system & percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2591

• 5 Dec 2025N/a

  Permission for development consisting of the construction of a new dwelling, site entrance, domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2588

• 17 Dec 2018Conditional

  Planning permission for the construction of a new detached dwelling house, domestic garage and agricultural shed, together with effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18616

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 Ardlagheen More or Highlake.

Recorded monuments

• RO035-003001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle NW-facing slope. D-shaped overgrown area (dims 26.8m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (at N: Wth 7.6m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 1m generally to 1.7m at N) which survives NNW-E-SSW, the perimeter being quarried back elsewhere. The rounded fosse (Wth of top 7.6m; Wth of base 2.4m; D 0.5m) survives NNW-N, but NNE-ENE it is re-cut and ESE-SE it is separated from the bank by a berm (Wth 4m). The monument was regarded locally as a children's burial ground (RO034-003003-), and uncremated bone (RO035-003002-) was recovered from it (Gannon 1972). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-003002 Burial
  Description

  On a gentle NW-facing slope. Rath (RO035-003001-) was regarded locally as a children's burial ground, and uncremated bone was recovered from it (Gannon 1972). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-003003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a gentle NW-facing slope. Rath (RO035-003001-) was regarded locally as a children's burial ground, and uncremated bone (RO035-003002-) was recovered from it (Gannon 1972). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-112 Field system
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope. An area of about 4 acres (c. 1.5 ha) contains a rectangular field (dims 38.7m NW-SE; 33.8m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3.3m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.4-0.6m) with a second field (dims c. 75m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE) to the SW and what may have been a SW-NE roadway (Wth 10m; L 110m) defined by earthen banks (Wth 3m; H 0.1-0.2m) on its SE side. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Highlake House, monastery, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey former Franciscan monastery, built c.1857, with projecting gabled end bays to front and rear elevations and crenellated three-stage tower to rear elevation. Vacated by the order of Franciscan monks c.1971 and now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with rendered quoins and date plaque and emblem of the order to front elevation. Niches to projecting gabled bays. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone sills and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and overlight. Former chapel in monastery located in south-west projecting end bay. Rendered entrance porch and decorative rose window to rear elevation wall. Outbuildings to rear yard now in use as artists studio. Shrine to the Virgin Mary at entrance gates.

• The Old Schoolhouse, school, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former school, built c.1857, with gabled entrance porches projecting from rear angles. Now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched slate roof gabled to front elevation entrance bay and extending over front elevation windows with ridge cresting, rendered chimneystacks and a copper turret. Rendered walls with ruled-and-lined detailing and quoins. Square-headed window openings to the front elevation with rendered surrounds and replacement uPVC windows. Door opening to front elevation now in use as a window opening. Front site enclosed by rendered stone wall with concrete coping. Cast-iron post box set in wall with V.R. insignia and crown emblem, c.1880.

• Post box, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cat-iron post box, c.1880, with V.R. insignia and crown. Set into wall of the former Highlake Monastery School.

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 Ardlagheen More or Highlake, about 1 in 10 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 Ardlagheen More or Highlake.

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 Ardlagheen More or Highlake with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ardlagheen More or Highlake

Area

2,199,935 m² (219.99 ha, 543.62 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonygormican, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Carrowduff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

212 people lived in 80 households in the Carrowduff electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardlagheen Beg, Ballinturly, Ballymacurly North, Ballymacurly South, Carrowduff Lower, Carrowduff Upper, Rushpark Farragher

Placenames

Ardlagheen More or Highlake 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.