Kilnanooan

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilnanooan, from 245 m² to 87,065 m² (8.71 ha, 21.51 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 Kilnanooan 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.

• 9 Dec 2025Conditional

  Permission to: 1. Refurbish existing house to include alterations to elevations, including raising the roof height, 2. Construct new extensions to same, 3. Demolish rear extension, front porch and sheds at rear and 4. Install upgraded treatment system and percolation area and carry out all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560580

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 Kilnanooan.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-056038 Barrow - stepped barrow
  Description

  On the E-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 41.5m NNE-SSW; 39.4m WNW-ESE; H 0.2m at E to 2m at W) which slopes down to the E (H c. 3.5m). It is bisected by a NNE-SSW field bank and drain, and is barely visible E of this feature. The platform is defined by a fosse (Wth of top 10-11m; Wth of base 5-7m; D 0.6m) and outer bank (Wth 1.5-2.2m; H 0.3m) SSW-WNW, but the fosse is reduced to a berm (Wth 7.5-10m) defined by a scarp (H 0.1-0.9m) and the bank is absent elsewhere (max. ext. diam. 63m NNE-SSW; 63m WNW-ESE). Just NW of the centre is a low mound (RO022-056054-) (diam. 5m; H 0.1m). The road (RO022-056034-) runs W from this barrow past Rathscreg barrow (RO022-056035-) and the smaller barrows (RO022-056036-; RO022-056037-), which are c. 180m, c. 130m, and c. 100m to the WNW respectively. (Knox 1914a, 23-4 fig. 9; Herity 1983, 131; 1984, Kilnanooan; Waddell 1983, 39-41; 1988, 12, No. 42) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056039 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  At the bottom of the E-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge, and approached by a concrete path (Wth 1m) from a lay-by off a NW-SE roadway c. 40m to the N. Rectangular well (dims 1.3m x 0.9m) with a concrete surround and canopy (H 1.6m). It is the origin of a stream which runs off to the SE, but there is no evidence of veneration. Rath (RO022-056057-) is c. 250m to the SW. Archaeological testing (07E0772) c. 50m to the NNE in Toberrory produced no archaeological material (Henry 2010b). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056041 Church
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge, and listed as a Patrician site (Nicholls 1973b). Rectangular structure reduced to the base courses (ext. dims 13.15m E-W; 6.5m N-S; max. H c. 0.5m) with grass-covered cairn material, but no features are visible apart from a fragment of the head of a round-headed window (RO022-056042-) which might be interpreted as a damaged bullaun stone (RO022-056044-) (dims 0.77m x 0.3m; H 0.25m) with a single basin (diam. 0.4m). The church is at the N side of a subrectangular enclosure (RO022-056043-) (dims 70m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by an earthen bank, best preserved at W (Wth 2m; H 0.3m) with internal and external facing stones, or a slight scarp. There is no evidence of burial, but there is local knowledge of burials being uncovered here. Rath (RO022-056057-) is c. 60m to the NNE and Tobercroghoor well (RO022-056039-) is c. 290m to the NNE. (Herity 1987a, 140) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056042 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. A fragment of the head of a round-headed window, which could be interpreted as a damaged bullaun stone (dims 0.77m x 0.3m; H 0.25m) with a single basin (diam. 0.4m), is at the church (RO022-056041-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056043 Graveyard
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. The church (RO022-056041-) is at the N side of a subrectangular enclosure (dims 70m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by an earthen bank, best preserved at W (Wth 2m; H 0.3m) with internal and external facing stones, or a slight scarp. There is no evidence of burial, but there is local knowledge of burials being uncovered here. (Herity 1987a, 140) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056054 Mound
  Description

  On the E-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. Just NW of the centre of the stepped barrow called Flanagan's Fort (RO022-056038-) is a low mound (diam. 5m; H 0.1m). (Knox 1914a, 23-4 fig. 9; Herity 1983, 131; 1984, Kilnanooan; Waddell 1983, 39-41; 1988, 12, No. 42) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the bottom of the E-facing slope of Rathcroghan. Oval grass and rush-covered area (dims 30m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; D 0.2m) at S and a slight scarp (H 0.1m at E to 0.5m SW-N-E) elsewhere. Holy well (RO022-056039-) is c. 250m to the NE and church (RO022-056040-) is c. 60m to the SSW. 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 Kilnanooan.

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 Kilnanooan, 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 Kilnanooan.

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

Name

Kilnanooan

Area

695,579 m² (69.56 ha, 171.88 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

Cammoge, Carrowgobbadagh, Toberrory, Tullintuppeen

Placenames

Kilnanooan 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.