Churchquarter
Churchquarter is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltullagh, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Ceathrú an Teampaill.
Parcel 708150
- Area
- 266 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Churchquarter
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 38.8 ha
- 96 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 2,125 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Churchquarter, from 43 m² to 128,308 m² (12.83 ha, 31.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Churchquarter 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 May 2021Conditional
Permission to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated siteworks at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21287
18 May 2021N/a
to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21253
15 Jul 2020Refused
permission sought to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated siteworks at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20275
8 Jul 2020N/a
permission sought to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated siteworks at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20261
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Churchquarter.
Recorded monuments
- RO026-007001 Church
Description
Marked as a small rectangular structure described in gothic lettering as a church at the N edge of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 ed.of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on the S and E-facing slope of an WNW-ESE ridge, and known locally as 'Teamhair Cemetery'. It may have been a chapel of ease to Kiltullagh parish church (RO032-001001-) c. 9km to the SW in Tuam diocese. There is a trapezoidal graveyard (RO026-007002-) (int. dims 32m N-S; 27.6m E-W at N; 12m E-W at S) defined by conserved masonry walls, which were once drystone-built. It contains 20th century headstones and an area with uninscribed grave-markers (dims c. 6m x c. 6m). There is no evidence of a church. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 9 April 2018
- RO026-007002 Graveyard
Description
Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 and 1929 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a Burial Ground. Situated on the S and E-facing slope of an WNW-ESE ridge, and known locally as 'Teamhair Cemetery'. This is a trapezoidal graveyard (int. dims 32m N-S; 27.6m E-W at N; 12m E-W at S) defined by conserved masonry walls, which were once drystone-built. It contains 20th century headstones and an area (dims c. 6m x c. 6m) with uninscribed grave-markers. There is no evidence of a church. See the attached image taken from the SE. 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 Churchquarter.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Churchquarter, 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 Churchquarter.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Churchquarter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Churchquarter · Ceathrú an Teampaill
- Area
- 388,208 m² (38.82 ha, 95.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltullagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Coolougher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 509 people lived in 196 households in the Coolougher electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinloughquarter, Cloonconra, Derryharraun East, Roadquarter
- Placenames
- Churchquarter 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.