# America, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moore, barony of Moycarn, Co. Roscommon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,177,756 m² (117.78 ha, 291.03 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,469 m² (1.65 ha, 4.07 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Moore, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/moore.md - Barony: Moycarn - Electoral division: Ballydangan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 784 people lived in 263 households in the Ballydangan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42331 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 190035 - Centre: latitude 53.320009, longitude -8.066675 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in America, from 42 m² to 148,788 m² (14.88 ha, 36.77 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 715383: 148,788 m² (14.88 ha, 36.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/715383.md - Parcel 678989: 130,969 m² (13.1 ha, 32.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/678989.md - Parcel 685477: 117,240 m² (11.72 ha, 28.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/685477.md - Parcel 717480: 113,454 m² (11.35 ha, 28.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/717480.md - Parcel 661894: 109,448 m² (10.94 ha, 27.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/661894.md - Parcel 697919: 74,748 m² (7.47 ha, 18.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/697919.md - Parcel 667045: 71,345 m² (7.13 ha, 17.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/667045.md - Parcel 2820409: 59,449 m² (5.94 ha, 14.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2820409.md - Parcel 711075: 43,903 m² (4.39 ha, 10.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/711075.md - Parcel 689424: 41,982 m² (4.2 ha, 10.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/689424.md - Parcel 683406: 35,099 m² (3.51 ha, 8.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/683406.md - Parcel 5905682: 33,823 m² (3.38 ha, 8.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5905682.md - Parcel 713292: 33,639 m² (3.36 ha, 8.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/713292.md - Parcel 658408: 30,218 m² (3.02 ha, 7.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/658408.md - Parcel 690719: 28,070 m² (2.81 ha, 6.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/690719.md - Parcel 687056: 25,165 m² (2.52 ha, 6.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/687056.md - Parcel 662725: 21,968 m² (2.2 ha, 5.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/662725.md - Parcel 677919: 10,970 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/677919.md - Parcel 666079: 7,919 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/666079.md - Parcel 659093: 7,880 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/659093.md - Parcel 674805: 5,947 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/674805.md - Parcel 718637: 5,893 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/718637.md - Parcel 701025: 4,445 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/701025.md - Parcel 4640169: 3,742 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4640169.md - Parcel 4852004: 3,457 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4852004.md - Parcel 664827: 2,031 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/664827.md - Parcel 699606: 1,599 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/699606.md - Parcel 5265842: 1,360 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5265842.md - Parcel 668124: 1,114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/668124.md - Parcel 708476: 869 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/708476.md - Parcel 696850: 438 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/696850.md - Parcel 5760680: 295 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5760680.md - Parcel 5519230: 56 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5519230.md - Parcel 5265839: 42 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5265839.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers America in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 18 Apr 2025, Roscommon County Council 2560176: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a four-bedroom dwelling. The application will also include a garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, and all associated site-works and drainage at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560176/0 - 23 Sept 2021, Roscommon County Council 21535: Conditional. Retention. RETENTION PERMISSION for: (a) 2 no. roadside agricultural entrances & PERMISSION for: (b) a livestock holding pen & associated siteworks at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/21535/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of America. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of America. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of America. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of America, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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_1460, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1460.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/america.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/america.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/america.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names America with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cloonburren: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/cloonburren.md - Clooniff: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/clooniff.md - Faltia: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/faltia.md - Hillsend: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/hillsend.md - Moore South: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/moore-south.md - Tully: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/tully-192021.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/america - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/america