Canbo

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Canbo, from 65 m² to 113,493 m² (11.35 ha, 28.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Canbo 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Canbo 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.

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• RO010-082 Crannog
  Description

  Towards the E end of Lisdaly Lough (dims c. 500m E-W; c. 120-240m N-S), c. 40m from the N shore and c. 50m from the S shore at a narrow, pinched, central part of the lake. Subcircular overgrown island (diam. 28m N-S, 26.6m E-W; H 0.7m) composed of layered earth and stone deposited in the lake shallows. There is no evidence of timber construction. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-083001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a level landscape with a N-S stream or drain c. 30m to the E which separates it from the fortified house of Canbo (RO010-084001-), c. 80m distant. D-shaped grass-covered platform (dims 23m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by a gapped and overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.1m at SE to 0.45m at NE; ext. H 0.3m at SE to 0.8m at NE) at NE, SE and SW, and elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.2m at E to 0.75m at W and S). There is no visible fosse or entrance. An enclosure or annexe (RO010-083002-) to the E is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 20m E-W; 16.5m N-S) defined by a low scarp (H 0.5-1m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-083002 Enclosure
  Description

  On a level landscape with a N-S stream or drain c. 10m to the E. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 20m E-W; 16.5m N-S) defined by a low scarp (H 0.5-1m) attached to the E of rath (RO010-083001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-084001 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  A castle at Canbo was demolished by Rory Mac Dermot (KM 1549-68) and Brian Ballach Mor O'Rourke in 1536. The castle of Castlebragade or Canbo was held by John Crofton in 1585 (Freeman 1936, 164), but he had lost it to Irish rebels by 1596 (Cronin 1980, 117). Crofton moved to Ballymurry near Roscommon town, which was later called Mote Park, but his daughter Ann married Josias Lambert in 1603 and received Canbo as part of her dowry. Josias Lambert owned Canbo in 1635 when a house and bawn are mentioned together with almost 900 acres of profitable land he owned in Killumod parish (Simington 1949, 165-6), and he may have built the surviving house in the preceding decades. Lambert had also acquired Leamgire castle (RO010-0075----) in 1622. By 1676 Canbo had passed to a Thomas Farrell of Newcastle, Co. Galway, who had disposed of it to a James Farrell by 1681 (D'Alton 1845, 89). James' widow married Arthur French of Tyrone, Co. Galway, and the French family retained it into the 18th century. (Stalley 1991, 170-1; Mac Dermot 1996, 450-3; Keenehan 2006c, 159-162; O'Conor, 2007, 197) Situated on level ground overlooking a N-S stream or drain to the W. The E end of a rectangular three-storey building (int. dims c. 14m E-W; 5.78m N-S) survives, consisting of the E gable and adjacent lengths of the N (L 3.55m) and S (L c. 3m) walls (T 1.1m), the W end being reduced to a low scarp. A doorway (Wth 1.35m) with an internal drawbar-socket is at the E end of the S wall, but the walls are featureless apart from a window in the E gable and the E side of window embrasures in the N and S walls. There is no evidence of a bawn (RO010-084002-). Rath (RO010-083----) is c. 80m to the W and Knockroe Castle (RO010-085001-) is c. 1.2km to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-084002 Bawn
  Description

  Canbo castle was described in the mid-17th century as `.... a fair Castle Bawn and stone house standeth' (Simington 1949, 165), but no visible surface trace of a bawn survives. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-086 Crannog
  Description

  On the N shore of Canbo Lough (dims c. 1.3m E-W; c. 100-300m N-S). Oval overgrown mound (dims 26.5m N-S; 23.5m E-W; H 0.2-1m) composed of earth and stone. Stakes were discovered driven into the lake around it (OS Name Books), but no timber structures are now visible. 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 Canbo.

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 10 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Canbo.

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 Canbo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Canbo

Area

1,255,664 m² (125.57 ha, 310.28 acres)

Civil parish

Killummod, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Killummod, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killummod electoral division: 129 people in 54 households; 88% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvilla, Derraun, Drumerr, Finnor, Knockroe, Lisdaly

Placenames

Canbo 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.