Churchacres

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Churchacres, from 512 m² to 104,797 m² (10.48 ha, 25.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Churchacres 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Churchacres 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 the townland of Churchacres.

Recorded monuments

• RO004-001 Promontory fort - inland
  Description

  On a peninsula jutting SW from the N shore of Lough Meelagh (dims. c. 2 km E-W; c. 600m-1 km N-S). Oval area (dims. 50m ENE-WSW; 31m NNW-SSE) in a mature deciduous wood protected by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H c. 1m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 6.5m; D 0.2-0.4m) across the isthmus (L 21m) at E. There is no visible entrance or any internal features. St Lassar's Well (RO004-002002-) is c. 140m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO004-002001 Altar
  Description

  On the N shore of Lough Meelagh (dims c. 2km E-W; c. 600m-1km N-S), c. 75m W of Kilronan church (RO004-003001-), on the S side of the Keadew-Ballyfarnon road and just E of St Lasair's holy well (RO004-002002-). An uninscribed stone, probably intended as a headstone and known locally as an altar, consists of a rectangular limestone slab (dims 1.8m x 1.05m; T 0.1m) supported by four corner stones (H c. 1m) on which water-rolled stones are placed. It was mistaken for a megalithic monument (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 196), and was once on the N side of the road (OS Name Books). (Hayward 1955, 135; O'Connell 1988, 61) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO004-002002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On the N shore of Lough Meelagh (dims c. 2km E-W; c. 600m-1km N-S), c. 75m W of Kilronan church (RO-004-003001-) and S of the Keadew-Ballyfarnon road. Rectangular well (dims 2.3m NW-SE; 1.6m NE-SW), which is still venerated, surrounded by a masonry wall and with steps at the SE. A limestone plaque (RO004-002005-) (dims 0.63m x 0.26m; T 0.07-0.16m) commemorating Roger Mc Dermotroe and his wife Ellen Conor with the date 1686 is built into the wall. A rag tree (RO004-002004-) stands over the well, and the overflow channel has a stone (dims. 0.65m x. 0.45m; T 0.15m) with a shallow basin (dims 0.55m x 0.35m; D 0.05m) which may be a saddle quern or a bullaun stone (RO004-002003-). An uninscribed stone, probably intended as a headstone and known locally as an altar, consists of a rectangular limestone slab (dims 1.8m x 1.05m; T 0.1m) supported by four corner stones (H c. 1m) on which water-rolled stones are placed. It was mistaken for a megalithic monument (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 196), and was once on the N side of the road (OS Name Books). The pattern was traditionally held on 8th and 9th of Sept. and is still continued today. Promontory fort (RO004-001----) is c. 140m to the WNW, and holy well (RO004-060----) is c. 230m to the NNW. (Hayward 1955, 135; O'Connell 1988, 61; Healy 2001, 51-2) See the attached view of the well taken from the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO004-002003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The overflow channel of St Lasair's holy well (RO004-002002-) has a stone (dims. 0.65m x. 0.45m; T 0.15m) with a shallow basin (dims 0.55m x 0.35m; D 0.05m) which may be a saddle quern or a bullaun stone. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO004-002004 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  A rag tree is standing over St Lasair's holy well (RO004-002002-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO004-002005 Memorial stone
  Description

  A limestone plaque (dims 0.63m x 0.26m; T 0.07-0.16m) commemorating Roger Mc Dermotroe and his wife Ellen Conor with the date 1686 is built into the wall around St Lasair's holy well (RO004-002002-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO004-003001 Church
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a S-facing slope and on the N shore of Meelagh Lough. The church was granted to the Premostratensian abbey on Lough Key (RO006-036001-) c. 1215, but the Ó Duignean family were erenachs of what would already be an old site. It was dedicated to St Lasair and her father, Rónán, and it was her principal church (Ó Riain 2011, 393-4). The church was rebuilt in 1339 by Farrell Muimhneach O'Duigenan (AFM) as the parish church of Kilronan in Ardagh diocese. it was burnt the following year (ibid. 571) and rebuilt by Farrell in 1347 (AFM). Members of this family were associated with Kilronan throughout the Middle Ages (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 123-4), and it became the burial ground of this bardic family who maintained burial enclosures and vaults here into the 18th century under the patronage of Mac Dermot Roe of Alderford (Mc Garry 1988). Turlough O'Carolan, the harpist, was buried here in 1741, his skull being displayed in the church from 1757 until c. 1798, when it disappeared, although a putative skull is now in NMI (O'Sullivan D. 1945; O'Sullivan, W. 1958 vol. 1, 117-24). Situated towards the bottom of a steep S-facing slope c. 100m from the N shore of Lough Meelagh. (Weld 1832, 264-9; Hayward 1955, 190-3; Stalley 1991, 187-90) Rectangular ivy-covered structure (int. dims 14.5m E-W; 7.2m N-S) of which the W wall does not survive, while the almost complete E wall (H c. 7m) has two tall lancet or trefoil-headed windows obscured with ivy. The N wall is largely reconstructed, but has an aumbry at its E end, and the Mac Dermotroe vault abuts the wall outside at the E end. There is a re-built round-headed Romanesque doorway (Wth 1.2m; H 1.8m), which is lacking imposts, at the W end of the S wall (Moss 2010, 141-4), and there are two large robbed window openings E of it. The doorway may be from an earlier church dating to the early 12th century. The church is within a rectangular graveyard (RO004-003002-) (dims. 73m E-W; 48m N-S) defined by a masonry wall, which has been extended to the E. St Lassar's Well (RO004-002002-) is c. 75m to the W and holy well (RO004-060----) is c. 270m to the NW. See the attached view of the doorway. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 9 March 2018

• RO004-003002 Graveyard
  Description

  At the bottom of a steep S-facing slope and on the N shore of Lough Meelagh. Rectangular graveyard (dims. 73m E-W; 48m N-S) defined by masonry walls, which has been extended to the E. Church (RO004-003001-) is within, and St Lassar's Well (RO004-002002-) is c. 30m to the W. (Weld 1832, 264-9) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO004-061 Crannog
  Description

  Close to the E shore of Lough Meelagh (dims. c. 2km E-W; c. 600-1 km N-S) and c. 40m from the N shore. Circular submerged artificial mound of stones (diam. c. 30m) just below the present surface of the lake. A quernstone is visible within the matrix. Crannog (RO004-004----) is c. 100m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Graveyard/cemetery, 1770–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Roman Catholic cemetery, c.1775, enlarged, repaired and consecrated in 1858 by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh. Established on the site of a fourteenth-century church, the remains of which are located to the centre of the graveyard. Variety of upright and recumbent grave markers dating from eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Several graves within church ruins, including the remains of Turlough O' Carolan. Site extended to east with modern graves. Random coursed sandstone and limestone boundary wall. Tooled sandstone entrance arch, erected in 1858 by Lady Louisa Tenison, with inscribed plaques to front and rear of arch and wrought-iron gate.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Churchacres

Area

290,733 m² (29.07 ha, 71.84 acres)

Civil parish

Kilronan, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Keadew, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Keadew electoral division: 544 people in 188 households; 71% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumdaff, Glebe, Keadew West, Knockranny, Stonepark

Placenames

Churchacres 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.