Buckill
Townland in the civil parish of Tibohine, barony of Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon; in Irish Bogchoill
- Area
- 335.9 ha
- 830 acres
- Land parcels
- 135
- registered freehold, median 18,599 m² (1.86 ha, 4.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
135 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Buckill, from 10 m² to 229,747 m² (22.97 ha, 56.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Buckill 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
19 Aug 2024Conditional
Permission for retention of an existing shed to be retained
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 24119
15 May 2024Conditional
Planning permission for development consisting of the part demolition and renovation of the existing dwelling and the construction of a proposed extension, a new septic tank and percolation area along with associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2477
8 Sept 2023Conditional
Permission to construct and agricultural machinery storage building, including all ancillary site works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23362
2 Aug 2023N/a
Permission to construct an agricultural machinery storage building in accordance with documents lodged and to include all ancillary site works and services at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23329
18 Feb 2022Conditional
Permission for a development consisting of the demolition of an existing rural home and the construction a new family dwelling house, new entrance and driveway, new replacement septic tank and percolation area along with associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2293
23 Dec 2021N/a
Permission for development which will consist of the replacement of an existing rural home with a new family dwelling house, new entrance and driveway, upgrading septic tank and percolation area along with associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21734
5 Jun 2020Conditional
Planning Permission to retain extension to dwelling house and permission to upgrade existing foul treatment system, all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20200
6 Mar 2019Conditional
to demolish existing conservatory and replace it with new sunroom together with all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19104
18 Feb 2019N/a
demolish existing conservatory and replace it with new sunroom together all associated site works
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1972
29 May 2017N/a
the development will consist of a shed used as a building for storage and shredding of recycled material to be moved onto a licensed recycling centre in Ballaghadereen at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 17242
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 Buckill.
Recorded monuments
- RO014-044 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular area used as a paddock (diam. 38m E-W; 36m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 3.3-4.7m; Wth of top 2-2.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.5m) NNE-SE which is incorporated into a field bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.8m) NW-NNE, and a complete overgrown fosse (Wth of base 3-3.6m; D 0.5-0.7m). There is an outer bank (Wth of base 3.3m; Wth of top 1.3m; ext. H 0.2m) SE-SW and at N, and there are widened entrances at NE, SE and SW. 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 Buckill.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Buckill.
- 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 Buckill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Buckill · Bogchoill
- Area
- 3,359,459 m² (335.95 ha, 830.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tibohine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Frenchpark
- Electoral division
- Buckill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Buckill electoral division: 353 people in 148 households; 90% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnacawley, Cartron More, Cloonfad, Curreentorpan, Lisdrumneill, Lissergool, Moyne, Mullaghnashee
- Placenames
- Buckill 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.