Oldtown Kilcashel

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldtown Kilcashel, from 171 m² to 165,784 m² (16.58 ha, 40.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Oldtown Kilcashel 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.

• 23 Mar 2026Conditional

  Permission to construct a dormer type extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, effluent treatment system and all associated site ancillary works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660126

• 4 Mar 2026N/a

  Permission to construct a dormer type extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, effluent treatment system and all associated Site ancillary works. Max ht. of development 6.100m at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660091

• 9 Feb 2026N/a

  Permission for a dormer type extension to the rear of the existing dwelling (Max ht. of development 6.100m), effluent treatment system and all associated Site ancillary works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660047

• 29 Sept 2021Conditional

  permission to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system & associated siteworks at,

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21545

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 Oldtown Kilcashel.

Recorded monuments

• RO054-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight SE-NW spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by a grass-covered earth and stone bank (Wth 2.2-3m; int. H 0.1m at W to 0.5m at N; ext. H 0.4-0.7m) that has intermittently visible outer facing-stones ESE-W-ENE, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Cashel (RO054-017----) is c. 140m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO054-017 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 28m N-S; 28m E-W) with some bushes, used as a paddock with a slightly raised interior, defined by the base of a stone wall, visible intermittently as facing-stones (original Wth c. 1.5-1.8m; max. int. H 0.2m) beneath an overgrown drystone wall (Wth 0.9-1.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1-1.5m), which has collapsed NNW-NNE. There is a modern entrance at NE, but the original entrance (Wth 1.9m) is at SE. Rath (RO054-016----) is c. 140m tot he NNW. 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 Oldtown Kilcashel.

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 Oldtown Kilcashel, 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 Oldtown Kilcashel.

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

Name

Oldtown Kilcashel

Area

1,631,811 m² (163.18 ha, 403.23 acres)

Civil parish

Moore, and its townlands

Barony

Moycarn

Electoral division

Ballydangan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

784 people lived in 263 households in the Ballydangan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydangan, Cloonulty, Cranberry Island, Cuilleen, Loughlackagh, Newtown Kilcashel

Placenames

Oldtown Kilcashel 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.