Castleplunket

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castleplunket, from 11 m² to 495,701 m² (49.57 ha, 122.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Castleplunket 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.

• 29 May 2026N/a

  Permission to erect a dwelling house, install septic tank and percolation area at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660265

• 6 Mar 2026Conditional

  Permission to construct new slatted shed and Retention Permission to retain existing straw bedded shed, together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660101

• 12 Jan 2026Refused

  Permission for the following: 1. To refurbish derelict house to include alterations to elevations and construct new rear extension 2. To install upgraded treatment system and percolation area and carry out all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660018

• 4 Aug 2025Conditional

  Permission for (i) demolition of existing rear, single storey structure, (ii) construction of new extension, (iii) proposed elevational changes to structure as built, (iv) upgrade of treatment system to a tertiary treatment system and infiltration/treatment area. Retention permission is also sought for (v) elevational changes from that granted permission under PD/10/298, (vi) treatment system location at variance from that granted permission under PD/10/298, (vii) garden shed, plus all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560376

• 23 Jun 2025Refused

  Permission for development which will consist of - Construction of 12 no. houses comprising 4 no. 4 bed semi-detached, 6 no. 3 bed semi-detached and 2 no. 2 bed semi-detached units, - Installation of a wastewater management system with associated percolation area, - Provision of a new vehicular/pedestrian access and visibility splay, - All associated external works including new boundary fences, landscaping and public open space at

  Permission, 12 homes · Roscommon County Council, 2560300

• 24 Mar 2025N/a

  • Construction of 12 no. houses comprising 4 no. 4 bed semi-detached, 6 no. 3 bed semi-detached and 2 no. 2 bed semi-detached units • Installation of a wastewater management system with associated percolation area • Provision of a new vehicular/pedestrian access and visibility splay • All associated external works including new boundary fences, landscaping and public open space.

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560124

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castleplunket Turlough 000598

Recorded monuments

• RO027-028001 House - 17th century
  Description

  Marked as a small rectangular building and described as a 'Castle' in gothic lettering on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated at the summit of a broad hill. Regarded locally as the site of a castle of the Plunkett family who were transplanted here from Meath in the mid-17th century. They lost their lands in the early 18th century to landowners called Knox, who never occupied it. The castle was used as a fever house during cholera outbreaks (1825-1835) and it was burnt before 1840. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. (Gormley 1989, 78) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO027-041 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M, 65-6), and situated in a shallow basin that is frequently flooded. A grass and rush-covered carriageway (Wth c. 9m; L c. 500m) is bordered by an earthen bank at W (Wth 2m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.3m) and E (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.1m) with internal ditches (Wth 1.8-2m; D 0.1-0.2m). The road is running N-S from the traditional site of Milltown House (RO027-087----) at S end towards Castleplunket village, but it stops c. 200m from the Main St. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO027-056001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise of a broad plateau. Raised D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 49m ENE-WSW; 34m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp (H 1.3-1.8m), with slight traces of a bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m) NNE-E and WSW-WNW, separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 6-7.2m; Wth of base 2-3.5m; D 0.2-0.9m) from an outer bank (Wth 3m; H 0.2m) which only survives NNE-ENE and SSW-SW. The entrance ramp (Wth 1.3m) and causeway (Wth 4m) are at W. The site is truncated by a quarry at N (L 30m), and it is surrounded by a field bank SW-N-SE. The later field system (RO027-056002-) is c. 100m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO027-056002 Field system
  Description

  Visible on aerial photograph (OSAP: 4, 2036), and situated on a broad plateau with two shallow NE-SW valleys through it. A pasture area of c. 10 acres (c. 4 ha) contains old field banks (Wth c. 2m; H 0.3m) creating rectangular fields (dims c. 40m x c. 60-100m), some containing lazy-beds. Four house-sites (int. dims c. 8m x c. 3-4m) defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 2m; H c. 0.2m) are coeval with the fields. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO027-056003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a broad plateau with two shallow NE-SW valleys through it, and integrated into the field system (RO027-056002-). This is a rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims 8m E-W; 4.6m N-S) defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 2m; H 0.3-0.6m). There is an E-W field bank immediately adjacent to the S and there are two house-sites (RO027-056004-; RO027-056005-) c. 20m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO027-056004 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a broad plateau with two shallow NE-SW valleys through it, and integrated with the field system (RO027-056002-). Rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims 8m E-W; 3m N-S) defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 1.5-2m; H c. 0.3m) with entrances (Wth. 1.5m) towards the W end of the N and S walls. House (RO027-056005-) is immediately adjacent to N and house (RO027-056003-) is c. 20m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO027-056005 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a broad plateau with two shallow NE-SW valleys through it and integrated with the field system (RO027-056002-). Rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims 6.4m E-W; 2.4m N-S) defined by earthen banks (Wth 1.5-2m; H 0.4m). House (RO027-056004-) is immediately adjacent to S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO027-056006 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a broad plateau with two shallow NE-SW valleys through it. Rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims 7.5m N-S; 5.8m E-W) defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 2m). There are field banks of field system (RO027-056002-) immediately adjacent to the W and N. 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 Castleplunket.

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

At the centre of the townland of Castleplunket, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Castleplunket with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Castleplunket · Lios Lachna

Area

1,594,366 m² (159.44 ha, 393.98 acres)

Civil parish

Baslick, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Castleplunket, the unit of the census

Census 2022

563 people lived in 208 households in the Castleplunket electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardeevin, Lisheen, Milltown, Rusheen, Toberelva

Placenames

Castleplunket 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.