Attirory
Attirory is a townland in the civil parish of Creagh, barony of Moycarn, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 221.1 ha
- 546 acres
- Land parcels
- 90
- registered freehold, median 2,991 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Attirory, from 46 m² to 423,977 m² (42.4 ha, 104.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Attirory 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 Feb 2026Conditional
Permission to construct a four bay slatted cattle shed on lands at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2611
11 Jun 2025Conditional
Planning permission for alterations and additions to the existing dwelling house including; 1. the reconstruction of the two existing front dormer windows, 2. the addition of a rear ground floor extension, 3. the addition of a rear first floor extension along with all the associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560278
6 Jun 2025N/a
Permission for alterations and additions to the existing dwelling house including; 1. The reconstruction of the two existing front dormer windows 2. the addition of a rear ground floor extension 3. the addition of a rear first floor extension along with all the associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560272
29 Mar 2021Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21156
17 Jun 2020N/a
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20215
21 Dec 2018Conditional
to construct dwelling house, and garage with proprietary treatment system and carry out associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18647
19 Dec 2018Conditional
for erection of dwelling with sewerage treatment plant and percolation area and ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18632
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cranberry Lough 001630
Recorded monuments
- RO054-003 Children's burial ground
Description
Marked only on the OS 25-inch map as the site of a fort, and situated on a gentle S-facing slope. This is a rectangular overgrown area (dims 30m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a drystone wall at N, and collapsed walls on the other sides. There is local information that it was used as a children's burial ground, but no grave-markers are visible. There are field stones in the interior. 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 Attirory.
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 Attirory, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Attirory.
- 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 Attirory with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Attirory
- Area
- 2,211,121 m² (221.11 ha, 546.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Creagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycarn
- Electoral division
- Creagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,005 people lived in 370 households in the Creagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnaglug, Cranberry Island, Cuilleen, Culliagharny, Tonlemone
- Placenames
- Attirory 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.