Cashelmeehan
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Ballintober South, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 321.9 ha
- 795 acres
- Land parcels
- 85
- registered freehold, median 12,957 m² (1.3 ha, 3.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashelmeehan, from 28 m² to 697,381 m² (69.74 ha, 172.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 61 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 Cashelmeehan 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
9 Feb 2022Conditional
Retention Permission to retain as constructed extension to rear of house along with retention of domestic shed and all ancillary site development works at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2264
22 Oct 2019Conditional
permission for development consisting of an aggregate storage shed (area 980msq) on a 0.098 hectare site within the existing quarry landholding at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19545
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Derrycanan Bog NHA 000605
Recorded monuments
- RO035-043001 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: BDV 24-28), and situated on a flat karst landscape. Thisi s a subcircular grass-covered area (dims c. 30m x c. 25m) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.2m; H 0.2m). There is no identifiable original entrance. It is within field system (RO034-043003-). To the NW there are the grass-covered foundations of two houses (RO035-043002-; RO035-043004-) (int. dims 2m x 2m; 9.6m x 6m). It has been removed since 1996 (Bing c. 2013). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO035-043002 House - indeterminate date
Description
Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: BDV 24-28) and situated on a flat karst landscape. There are the grass-covered foundations of a house (int. dims 9.6m NE-SW; 6m NW-SE) just NW of cashel (RO035-043001-) with house (RO035-043004-) just to its SW. It has been removed since 1996 (Bing c. 2013). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO035-043003 Field system
Description
Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: BDV 24-28), and situated on a flat karst landscape. An area of about 5 acres (c. 2 ha) contains field walls creating rectangular fields (dims c. 100m x c. 50m). It also contains cashel (RO035-043001-) and house sites (RO035-043002-; RO035-043004-). All features have been removed since 1996 (Bing c. 2013). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO035-043004 House - indeterminate date
Description
Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: BDV 24-28) and situated on a flat karst landscape. There are the grass-covered foundations of a house (int. dims 2m x 2m) NW of cashel (RO035-043001-) with house (RO035-043002-) just to its NE. It has been removed since 1996 (Bing c. 2013). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO035-062001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as an circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a NE-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. 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 Cashelmeehan.
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 high, 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 Cashelmeehan.
- 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 Cashelmeehan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cashelmeehan
- Area
- 3,219,162 m² (321.92 ha, 795.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober South
- Electoral division
- Kilbride South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbride South electoral division: 386 people in 145 households; 85% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinderry, Coolteige, Corry, Fairymount, Rathconor, Rathmore
- Placenames
- Cashelmeehan 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.