Mountain Lower

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountain Lower, from 306 m² to 319,672 m² (31.97 ha, 78.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Mountain Lower 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.

• 24 Mar 2022Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain garage as built and Permission to retain and complete green house all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 22157

• 24 Jan 2020Conditional

  to retain and complete alterations to dwelling house previously granted planning permission under PD/18/382 and relocate garage as previously granted planning permission under PD/18/382, all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2028

• 26 Jul 2018Conditional

  Planning permission to construct extension to dwelling house and alterations to front elevation, construct new garage and upgrade foul effluent treatment system, all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18382

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: Lough O'Flynn 001645

Recorded monuments

• RO025-005 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible as an oval enclosure (dims c. 40m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 90-1), and situated on low-lying pasture c. 50m from the E shore of Lough O'Flynn at its S end. It is not visible at ground level in rush-covered pasture. 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 Mountain Lower.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Mountain Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Mountain Lower · An Sliabh Íochtarach

Area

1,742,373 m² (174.24 ha, 430.55 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Ballinlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinlough electoral division: 1,138 people in 465 households; 78% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonconra, Cloontarsna, Derryharraun West, Kilmore, Mountain Upper

Placenames

Mountain Lower 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.