Evikeens
Evikeens is a townland in the civil parish of Boyle, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 724115
- Area
- 17,526 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 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
- Evikeens
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
- About 1 in 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1233 (ZIP).
- 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
- 80.4 ha
- 199 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 13,113 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Evikeens, from 455 m² to 120,883 m² (12.09 ha, 29.87 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 Evikeens 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
23 Jul 2025Conditional
Permission to demolish a utility room to the rear of dwelling house (area 4.95 sq./mtrs. approx.) and for the construction of an extension to the rear of dwelling house (area 27.3 sq. mtrs. approx.) at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560360
7 Jul 2025N/a
Permission to demolish a utility room to the rear of my dwellinghouse (area 4.95 sq./mtrs. approx.) and for the construction of an extension to the rear of my dwellinghouse (area 27.3 sq. mtrs. approx.) at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560330
6 Mar 2024Conditional
Permission for (A) Construction of new single story dwelling (B) Form new entrance piers with setback post and rail fence, C/W wastewater treatment system to EPA CoP 2021 EN 12566-3 standards and all other site works as required at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460113
6 Apr 2017Conditional
Planning Permission for 1 No. forest road access onto the Local Road, with associated turning head and security barrier at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17143
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 Evikeens.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Evikeens.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Evikeens.
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
- About 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1233 (ZIP).
- 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 Evikeens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Evikeens
- Area
- 803,925 m² (80.39 ha, 198.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Boyle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Boyle Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,775 people lived in 640 households in the Boyle Rural electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Copse, Cornameelta, Garrow, Kiltycreaghtan, Spa
- Placenames
- Evikeens 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.