Gillstown

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gillstown, from 3,860 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres) to 712,177 m² (71.22 ha, 175.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Gillstown 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.

• 22 Feb 2021Conditional

  permission for development which will consist of: Demolition of the porch to the front of the house, two storey return and outbuilding to the rear; Decommissioning of the existing septic tank and removal of the entire roof to Gillstown House; Construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear, two storey extension to the rear; House to have a new roof with rooflights; Repair and alteration to the garden walls to the house itself; Provision of a new waste water treatment plant with a percolation area, drainage and waste water disposal; Repair of the front gate to the road frontage and all associated site works (Application made for PERMISSION for development which will consist of: Demolition of the porch to the front of the house, two storey return and outbuilding to the rear; Decommissioning of the existing septic tank and removal of the entire roof to Gillstown House; Construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear, two storey extension to the rear, two storey entrance extension to the front; House to have a new roof with rooflights; Repair and alteration to the garden walls to the house itself; Provision of a new waste water treatment plant with a percolation area, drainage and waste water disposal; Repair of the front gate to the road frontage and all associated site works) at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21101

• 8 Feb 2021N/a

  for demolition of the two storey return and outbuilding to the rear and removal of the entire roof to Gillstown House. Construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear, two storey extension to the rear, two storey entrance extension to the front. House to have a new roof with rooflights. Repair and alteration to the garden walls to the house itself. Provision of a new waste water treatment plant with a percolation area, drainage and waste water disposal. Repair of the front gate to the road frontage and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2171

• 22 Oct 2019Conditional

  for (a) To retain existing domestic shed as constructed. Permission is sought for: (a) The demolition of existing front porch. (b) The construction of an extension to an existing dwelling house. (c) Elevational changes of existing dwelling house. (d) Relocation of existing roadside entrance. (e) Along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19544

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilglass And Grange Loughs 000608

Recorded monuments

• RO023-143001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope with a S-N section of the Scrammoge River c. 220m to the W. Described as a circular area (diam. c. 34m N-S) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse with a possible hut site (RO023-143002-) at the centre (Gannon 1972). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-143002 Hut site
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope. Described as a hut site at the centre of rath (RO023-143001-) (Gannon 1972). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-144 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope. Subcircular or D-shaped grass-covered area used as a haggard (dims 65.2m NE-SW; 58m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.4-4.6m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) E-S-N, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) N-E and incorporated into a field boundary S-W, and a complete fosse (Wth of top 3.8-4.7m; Wth of base 2.4-2.8m; D 0.2-0.6m) which is re-cut as a drain S-W. The original entrance is not identified, while the perimeter at NW and parts of the interior have been quarried. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-198001 Bridge
  Description

  A bridge is marked on the Petty map of Roscommon barony dated 1683 between Clonycoylemore (Clooneen) and Ballytynne (Ballyfeeny) townlands. It is on the boundary of the parishes of Bumlin in Roscommon barony and Kilglass in Ballintober North. A three-arch bridge (L c. 15m) with dressed voussoirs is built as one unit (Wth c. 6m) across the S-N Scramoge River. The present bridge may be 18th century in date. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-198002 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a ruined mill on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 6.7m E-W; 6.1m N-S; H 1m) surviving as a grass-covered cairn with external wall-facings visible (H c. 0.4m at E to 2m at W). It extends into the S-N River Scramoge on the E bank, c. 13m N of the bridge (RO023-198001-). 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 Gillstown.

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 Gillstown, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gillstown

Area

728,036 m² (72.8 ha, 179.9 acres)

Civil parish

Kilglass, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober North

Electoral division

Ballygarden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

223 people lived in 82 households in the Ballygarden electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfeeny, Ballymartin, Clooneen (Hartland), Corgowan, Glen, Tully

Placenames

Gillstown 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.