Flaskagh More
Flaskagh More is a townland in the civil parish of Elphin, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Fleascach Mhór.
Parcel 714577
- Area
- 27,652 m² (2.77 ha, 6.83 acres)
- 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
- Flaskagh More
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- 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
- 77.4 ha
- 191 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 39,337 m² (3.93 ha, 9.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Flaskagh More, from 1,492 m² to 108,560 m² (10.86 ha, 26.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Flaskagh More 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
14 Jul 2025Conditional
Permission to construct new straw bedded shed to replace existing storm damaged hayshed, together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560342
10 May 2021Conditional
permission to construct straw bedded shed together with all associated site works including ancillary concrete and boundary / silage wall at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21232
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 Flaskagh More.
Recorded monuments
- RO022-058 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the W end of a low E-W ridge which has been shaped into a mound known as 'Lisdoonmore'. Oval grass-covered platform (dims of top 18m E-W; 13m N-S; dims of base 22m E-W; c. 27m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m at E to 1.6-2m generally) which is situated on top of the mound and separated by a berm (Wth 5.8m at W to 11m at E) NE-S-NW from the edge of the mound (dims of top 39m E-W; 33.5m N-S). There is a bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.2m) on the perimeter of the mound NE-SE, where it is incorporated into an overgrown field bank, and SW-NW. The mound (H 3.5m at N to 5m at S) has a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 1.7-3m; D 0.4m at N to 1.7m at W) around its base, and the bottom of the fosse rises across the ridge at E where it is overgrown. The entrance (Wth 3.2m) in the inner bank is at E. There is an outer earthen bank (Wth 5.8m; int. H 2m; ext. H 1.1m), a second outer fosse (Wth of top 5.8m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.6m) and slight third bank (Wth 3.6m; ext. H 0.3m) at the foot of the mound at NW (L 16m) (max. ext. dims 54m N-S; c. 55m E-W). Earthwork (RO022-059----) is c. 250m to the ESE and rath (RO022-060----) is c. 250m to the SSE. See the attached aerial view taken from the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO022-059 Earthwork
Description
Consisting of a small hillock on the floor of a slight E-W valley with a canalized W-E stream immediately to the N. Subcircular, domed (H 1m at NW to 2.5m at SW) and grass-covered area (dims 30.7m NW-SE; 26.8m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at SE to 2.7m at NW), with a berm (Wth 1m at SW to 5.5m at SE) spiraling up the mound anti-clockwise W-NE. There is a slight outer bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 1.2m; ext. D 0.5m) at the outer edge of the berm at SE. Rath (RO022-058----) is c. 250m to the WNW and rath (RO022-060----) is c. 250m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO022-172 Enclosure
Description
Reported by Mr. Jean-Charles Caillere (8-7-2022). In level, mixed rough grazing and improved pasture. Visible on GoogleEarth aerial imagery dated 18-3-2015 as the cropmark of a circular enclosure (est. diam c. 50m), located between an earthwork (RO022-059----) c. 85m to SW and a rath (RO022-058----) c. 100m to WNW. See attachment: RO022-172---- _01 Snip of GoogleEarth aerial image (18-3-2015) supplied by Mr. Jean-Charles Caillere. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 20 December 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Flaskagh More.
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 Flaskagh More, 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 Flaskagh More.
- 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 Flaskagh More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Flaskagh More · Fleascach Mhór
- Area
- 774,108 m² (77.41 ha, 191.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Elphin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Cloonyquin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 255 people lived in 95 households in the Cloonyquin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymurray, Boyanagh, Cartron, Cloonyquin, Flaskagh Beg, Grallagh, Lisnagard, Ross More West, Tullintuppeen
- Placenames
- Flaskagh More 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.