Bumlin

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bumlin, from 149 m² to 195,060 m² (19.51 ha, 48.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bumlin 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.

• 11 Jan 2022Conditional

  Permission to construct a covered coaching facility and ancillary site works, the proposed coaching facility will be a 4 bay cladded steel structure at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2210

• 16 Dec 2021N/a

  Permission to construct a covered coaching facility and ancillary site works. The proposed coaching facility will be a 4-bay cladded steel structure at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21709

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bumlin.

Recorded monuments

• RO029-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle N-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 55m NW-SE; 46m NE-SW) defined by an eroded earthen bank (Wth 4-8.5m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.3-1m) and shallow fosse (Wth of top 5-7.6m; Wth of base 2-2.4m; D 0.2-0.3m). There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO029-030----) is c. 150m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m), and situated on a gentle N-facing slope of a low NW-SE ridge. An arc of double facing-stones from an earthen bank (Wth 1.4m; H 0.2-0.5m) survives S-W (C c. 20m) in a coniferous forest from what is probably a rath. Rath (RO029-034----) is c. 150m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m N-S) defined by an eroded earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.3-0.5m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Archaeological testing (E005073) in advance of the N5 Ballaghderreen to Sramoge road during 2019 identified an undated fire spot as a circular area (dims c. 1.1m x 0.8m; T 0.02m) located c. 40m to the E of the rath (Ó Maoldúin 2019; excavations.ie: 2109:460). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 Amended: 28 October 2020

• RO029-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Just off the crest at the S end of a slight NW-SE ridge, on the E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 46m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.5-6m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.4m) and the remains of a fosse (Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 2.2-2.6m; D 0.4m). There is no identifiable original entrance. Enclosure (RO029-032----) is c. 150m to the NNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a SW-facing slope, and on a fairway of a golf course. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 46.2m N-S; 43.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 7-7.2m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.3-0.4m) NW-ESE, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 7.8-8.3m; Wth of base 2-2.5m; D 0.2m at N to 0.5m at S) NNW-E-WSW. There is an entrance causeway (Wth 3m) at SE (max. ext. diam. 62m N-S). Ditch-barrow (RO029-151----) is c. 30m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-037001 Church
  Description

  This is the parish church of Bumlin, listed as Bunilling in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 223). Situated on a gentle S-facing slope with a W-E stream or drain c. 180m to the S. A short length of what is probably the S wall (L 4m; H 3.4m; T 0.85m) survives within a kite-shaped graveyard (RO028-037002-) (dims 75m N-S; 50m E-W at N) defined by masonry walls (H c. 1.2m; T 0.5m). Also within the graveyard is the gable of another building (RO029-037003-) (L 4.9m; H 2.7-3.1m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-037002 Graveyard
  Description

  The parish church of Bumlin (RO029-037001-) is situated on a gentle S-facing slope within a kite-shaped graveyard (dims 75m N-S; 50m E-W at N) defined by masonry walls (H c. 1.2m; T 0.5m) with a W-E stream or drain c. 180m to the S. There is another building (RO029-037003-) just N of the church. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-037003 Building
  Description

  The parish church of Bumlin (RO029-037001-) is within a kite-shaped graveyard (RO029-037002-) on a S-facing slope with a W-E stream or drain c. 180m to the S. There is the gable of another structure (L 4.9m; H 2.7-3.1m) just N of the church. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-151 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope of a golf course. Subcircular grass-covered platform (dims 3.3m N-S; 2.3m E-W) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth of top 2-2.5m; D 0.1-0.2m) NE-S-NW. Rath (RO029-035----) is c. 30m to the 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 Bumlin.

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).

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 Bumlin.

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.

No address of the register names Bumlin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Bumlin · Buimlinn

Area

1,013,640 m² (101.36 ha, 250.48 acres)

Civil parish

Bumlin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Strokestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Strokestown electoral division: 1,232 people in 529 households; 63% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlenode, Cloonradoon, Newtown, Scramoge, Treanacreeve

Placenames

Bumlin 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.