# Baslick, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Baslick, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon; in Irish Baislic.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 513,483 m² (51.35 ha, 126.88 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 72,194 m² (7.22 ha, 17.84 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Baslick, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/baslick.md
- Barony: Castlereagh
- Electoral division: Baslick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 147 people lived in 55 households in the Baslick electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/43392
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 190233
- Centre: latitude 53.786423, longitude -8.4344 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baslick, from 7,051 m² (0.71 ha, 1.74 acres) to 256,274 m² (25.63 ha, 63.33 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 673645: 256,274 m² (25.63 ha, 63.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/673645.md
- Parcel 673646: 85,966 m² (8.6 ha, 21.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/673646.md
- Parcel 701454: 79,121 m² (7.91 ha, 19.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/701454.md
- Parcel 669672: 65,268 m² (6.53 ha, 16.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/669672.md
- Parcel 721194: 19,868 m² (1.99 ha, 4.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/721194.md
- Parcel 4664734: 7,051 m² (0.71 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4664734.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Baslick 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)

No planning application touches the townland of Baslick in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## 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 Baslick.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- RO021-083001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO021-083001-. An early church founded by St Patrick for the Ciarraige (Stokes 1887b, 111), and also the parish church of Baslick. Sachellus was the first bishop and references continue to 846 when it is said to have been plundered by the Vikings (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 374). According to Tírechán Baslick was closely associated with St. Patrick and Armagh through Sachellus or Soicheall (Ó Riain 2011, 567) and it may have held important relics. Ragallach Mac Uatach, perhaps the first securely-documented King of Connaught and of the Uí Briúin, was buried here in 649, although this was in the territory of the subject Ciarrraige Aí. Abbots are recorded in 742 and 759, but in 805 the abbot Cormac, son of the Uí Briúin king Tommaltaig, was killed by the Ciarraige. Tommaltaig's revenge marked the end of Ciarrraige dominance at Baslick, and the church began to loose its importance as the Uí Bruinn continued to dominate Macaire Connachta and Connaught in the 9th century. The church is listed as Baslick in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 as the centre of a parish (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 223), and it is situated on a bluff overlooking the N-S Termon stream which curves W just S of the site and ultimately joins the River Suck at Castlerea. (Gormley 1989, 107-8; Timoney 1990, 15; Moore 2009) The church is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 17.25m E-W; 8.25m N-S) defined by the complete W and N (H c. 3m) walls and the W end of the S wall (T 0.8m) that may incorporate earlier work. There is a blocked pointed doorway (H 1.63m) or the re-used stonework of one towards the E end of the N wall. Two broken but unfinished quernstones are built into the inner face of the N wall as well as a fragment of an ogham stone (RO021-083005-) (L 0.47m; T 0.11m) that was first identified by B. Shanahan in 2009 and was initially read by F. Moore as OMT_F_H or OMT_T_B AT (Shanahan 2013, 85) but is more likely to be AT(or C)IMAC(or Q) [I] (Pers. Comm. F. Moore). This is interpreted as ATI MAQI. The church is within a subcircular graveyard (RO021-083002-) (dims 52m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by a masonry wall but the perimeter had been an iron railing in the early 19th century (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 188). The single flat headstone (RO021-083004-) (dims 2.2m x 1.1m; T 0.2m) of a Michael Balfe dated 1777 where coffins were traditionally laid is just outside the graveyard beside the gate at W. The graveyard is in the SE quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (RO021-083003-) recorded in remote sensing by the Discovery Programme during 2009 (Shanahan 2013). The enclosure (diam. c. 90m) is defined by two features that could be earthen banks placed 10m apart or it may be a wide bank with internal and external fosses. There are two outer concentric features that may represent additional enclosing elements (max. ext. diam. c. 240m N-S) or be part of the field system centred on the ecclesiastical enclosure. The rectangular fields (dims c. 30m x. c. 40m) are radiating from the ecclesiastical enclosure in at least two bands, particularly W-N and cover c. 3 ha (c. 7 acres). An E-W double-ditched feature (Wth c. 5m) approaching the ecclesiastical enclosure from the WNW might be a road or a field bank with two ditches, but a wider double-ditched feature (Wth 12-25m) outside the outermost enclosing element S-W is probably a droveway and leads to the quarries or ponds S of the graveyard. The ecclesiastical enclosure is centred on an enclosure (RO021-083006-) (diam. c. 40m) which may be bivallate or trivallate and is situated just NW of the graveyard. This is probably the earliest element of the site and may enclose an early cemetery. The mill-race (RO021-090001-) is adjacent to the E. This is visible as a reed-filled N-S silted ditch (Wth 1.8-2m; D 0.5m; L c. 400m) on an artificial terrace (Wth c. 5-6m) of the E-facing slope and c. 1m over the level of the stream. Towards the S end it develops a distinct bank (Wth 4.3m; H 0.4m at W; H 0.6m at E) on the E side, but its S end is quarried away. The mill-race has been interpreted as a later prehistoric linear earthwork (Moore, S. 2009, 118). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10th September, 2010 Amended: 30 July, 2013
- RO021-083002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO021-083002-. On a bluff overlooking a N-S stream to the E and S. Baslick church (RO021-083001-) is within a subcircular graveyard (dims c. 52m N-S; c. 37m E-W) defined by a masonry wall that had been defined by an iron railing in the early 19th century (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 188). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 Amended: 29 July, 2013
- RO021-083003: Ecclesiastical enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO021-083003-. On a bluff overlooking a N-S stream to E and S. The church (RO021-083001-) is within a graveyard (RO021-083002-) which is in the SE quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure recorded in remote sensing by the Discovery Programme during 2009. The enclosure (diam. c. 90m) is defined by two features that could be earthen banks placed 10m apart or it may be a wide bank with internal and external fosses. There are two outer concentric features that may represent additional enclosing elements (max. ext. diam. c. 240m N-S) or be part of the field system (RO021-083007-) centred on the ecclesiastical enclosure. Within the ecclesiastical enclosure is a smaller enclosure (RO021-083006-) that is situated just NW of the graveyard and is probably the earliest element of the site. (Shanahan 2013, 84) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10th September, 2010. Amended: 30 July, 2013
- RO021-083004: Coffin-resting stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO021-083004-. On a bluff overlooking a N-S stream to the E and S. The single flat headstone (dims 2.2m x 1.1m; T 0.2m) of a Michael Balfe dated 1777 where coffins were traditionally laid is just outside the graveyard (RO021-083002-) beside the gate at W. (Gormley 1989a, 107) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO021-083005: Ogham stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO021-083005-. Two broken but unfinished quernstones are built into the inner face of the N wall of the church (RO021-083001-) where there is also a fragment of an ogham stone (L 0.47m; T 0.11m) that was first identified by B. Shanahan in 2009. This was initially read by F. Moore as OMT_F_H or OMT_T_B AT (Shanahan 2013, 85) but is more likely to be AT(or C)IMAC(or Q) [I] (Pers. Comm. F. Moore). This is interpreted as ATI MAQI. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 1 May 2013 Amended: 30 July, 2013
- RO021-083006: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO021-083006-. The ecclesiastical enclosure (RO021-083003-) recorded in remote sensing by the Discovery Programme during 2009 is centred on an enclosure (diam. c. 40m) which may be bivallate or trivallate and is situated just NW of the graveyard. This is probably the earliest element of the site and may enclose an early cemetery. (Shanahan 2013, 85) Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 10th September, 2010 Amended: 30 July, 2013
- RO021-083007: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO021-083007-. The ecclesiastical enclosure (RO021-083003-) recorded in remote sensing by the Discovery Programme during 2009 is surrounded by a field system consisting of rectangular fields (dims c. 30m x. c. 40m) radiating from it in at least two bands, particularly W-N and covering c. 3 ha. (c. 7 acres) (Shanahan 2013, 85-6). An E-W double-ditched feature (Wth c. 5m) approaching the ecclesiastical enclosure from the WNW might be a road or a field bank with two ditches, but a wider double-ditched feature (Wth 12-25m) outside the outermost enclosing element S-W is probably a droveway and leads to the quarries or ponds S of the graveyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 10th September, 2010. Amended: 30 July, 2013
- RO021-090001: Mill - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO021-090001-. On the steep scarp of the W bank of the N-S Termon River and just E of Baslick church (RO021-083001-). A millrace is visible as a reed-filled N-S silted ditch (Wth 1.8-2m; D 0.5m; L c. 400m) on an artificial terrace (Wth c. 5-6m) of the slope and c. 1m over the level of the stream. Towards the S end it develops a distinct bank (Wth 4.3m; H 0.4m at W; H 0.6m at E) on the E side, but its S end is quarried away. The mill-race has been interpreted as a later prehistoric linear earthwork (Moore 2009, 118). (Timoney 1990, 15) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Baslick.

## 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 Baslick, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1140, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1140.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/baslick.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/baslick.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/baslick.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Baslick 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)

- Brackloon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/brackloon-190281.md
- Carrowbaun: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/carrowbaun-190385.md
- Cloonbard: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/cloonbard.md
- Corlis: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/corlis-190828.md
- Termon Beg: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/termon-beg.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.

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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.

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