Aghalustia
Townland in the civil parish of Castlemore, barony of Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon; in Irish Achadh Loiste
- Area
- 479.5 ha
- 1,185 acres
- Land parcels
- 309
- registered freehold, median 5,789 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
309 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghalustia, from 70 m² to 315,685 m² (31.57 ha, 78.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 60 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghalustia 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
17 Oct 2025N/a
Permission for development that will consist of: the construction of a new, detached, single-storey dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560493
8 Mar 2022Conditional
Permission to construct an agricultural storage shed and all associated site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22131
10 Jun 2019Conditional
to retain a turf shed/garage/store ancillary to our dwellinghouse at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 19305
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 Aghalustia.
Recorded monuments
- RO014-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 36.3m E-W; 36m N-S) with slight traces of a bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.1m) at W defined by a fosse (Wth of top 4.4-6.6m; int. D 0.6-1m; ext. D 0.6-0.8m) which is separated by a berm (Wth 0.7-0.9m) from an overgrown bank (Wth 3.9-4.8m; int. H 0.7-1.3m; ext. H 1-1.3m). This is surrounded by an outer fosse or drain (Wth of base 1.2-1.5m; D 0.2-0.3m) WNW-WSW. There is a modernised entrance (Wth 2m) and causeway (Wth 3.2m) at ESE (max. ext. diam. 58.8m E-W; 58.2m N-S). 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 Aghalustia.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghalustia.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghalustia with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Aghalustia · Achadh Loiste
- Area
- 4,794,700 m² (479.47 ha, 1,184.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlemore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Frenchpark
- Electoral division
- Artagh North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Artagh North electoral division: 864 people in 334 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghacurreen, Cartron More, Cloonavullaun, Lissergool, Lissian, Lung, Roosky
- Placenames
- Aghalustia 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.