Ardgallagher
Ardgallagher is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Ballintober North, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 67.3 ha
- 166 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 18,889 m² (1.89 ha, 4.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardgallagher, from 1,596 m² to 138,177 m² (13.82 ha, 34.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Ardgallagher 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
No planning application touches the townland of Ardgallagher 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.
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 Ardgallagher.
Recorded monuments
- RO017-106 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
At the crest of the fairly steep N-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular grass and rush-covered area (dims 70m E-W; 62m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.9m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m) and hedge E-S, and by a scarp (H 1.2m) and hedge elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. 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 Ardgallagher.
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 Ardgallagher, about 1 in 10 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 Ardgallagher.
- 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 Ardgallagher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Ardgallagher
- Area
- 673,191 m² (67.32 ha, 166.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober North
- Electoral division
- Kilmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 184 people lived in 69 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cartron (Hartland), Clooncraff, Cuiltyshinnoge, Fearagh (Caddell), Fearagh (Mahon), Scrabbagh
- Placenames
- Ardgallagher 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.