Meeltraun (Denis Kelly)

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meeltraun (Denis Kelly), from 1,025 m² to 95,728 m² (9.57 ha, 23.65 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 Meeltraun (Denis Kelly) 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Meeltraun (Denis Kelly) in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• RO032-049 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
  Description

  In the valley of an E-W stream. The mill, which had been operated by seven generations of the Gannon family, is described as having a wheel (diam. c. 1.5m) with wooden ladles made from round wood hollowed into cups on the up-stream side. The wheel was laid horizontally and the stream (Wth c. 1.5m) which had been narrowed to a nozzle (dim. c. 0.2m) directed at the wheel. The mill-house is now removed, but the mill-wheel is now at NMI, Turlough, Co. Mayo. (Knox 1906-07, 268-9) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO032-050001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  At the SW edge of a low plateau. Circular heather-covered area (diam. c. 20m) defined by intermittently visible boulders (dims c. 0.5m x c. 0.5m). Mass-rock (RO032-05002-) is immediately to the S. (Fitzmaurice 1988) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO032-050002 Mass-rock
  Description

  At the crest of the SW-facing edge of a low plateau. Conglomerate boulder (dims 3m NW-SE; 1m NE-SW at NW to 2m NE-SW at SE; H 0.8m at NW to 1.5m at SE) with a vertical and straight SW edge (max. H 1.8m) where a modern stone altar (dims 1.5m x 1m; H 0.9m) has been built. A drystone wall (L c. 10m) extends down the slope from the W edge of the boulder. Mass is celebrated at the beginning of September each year, and there is a local tradition of a massacre having occurred here. Children's burial ground (RO032-05001-) is immediately to the N. (Fitzmaurice 1988) 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 Meeltraun (Denis Kelly).

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 Meeltraun (Denis Kelly), 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meeltraun (Denis Kelly).

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 Meeltraun (Denis Kelly) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Meeltraun (Denis Kelly)

Area

505,193 m² (50.52 ha, 124.84 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Kiltullagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,185 people lived in 460 households in the Kiltullagh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlequarter, Cloonerkaun, Cloonfad East, Meeltraun (Daniel Kelly), Meeltraun (O'Flyn), Pollanarroo

Placenames

Meeltraun (Denis Kelly) 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.