Clydagh Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltullagh, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon; in Irish Claídeach Uachtarach
- Area
- 81.5 ha
- 201 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 20,237 m² (2.02 ha, 5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clydagh Upper, from 98 m² to 57,435 m² (5.74 ha, 14.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Clydagh Upper 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
13 Jul 2026N/a
Permission for the development consisting of the construction of a new agricultural shed incorporating livestock handling areas, passageways, crush and associated internal livestock bays, together with a farm office, the construction of an external slurry/brown water storage tank, retention permission for the existing agricultural bale storage area used for the stacking of silage bales, and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660348
10 Jan 2025Conditional
Permission to refurbish house to include alterations to elevations, to install upgraded treatment system and percolation area and to form new boundary at rear with post and wire fence and carry out all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560003
16 Feb 2018Conditional
to construct a four bay single slatted shed with lie back and carry out all ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1862
8 Jan 2018N/a
to construct a four bay single slatted shed with lie back and carry out all ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 185
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 Clydagh Upper.
Recorded monuments
- RO025-032 Sweathouse
Description
At the bottom of an E-facing slope on a plateau. Rectangular drystone-built structure (ext. dims. 3m N-S; 2.6m E-W; max. H 1.5m) with an entrance (Wth 0.6m; H 0.8m) in the E side. The interior is rectangular (dims. 1.7m E-W; 1.45m N-S; H 1.35m) with a lintelled roof and four triangular seats (dims. c. 0.3m x c. 0.3m) protruding from the walls, c. 0.45m off the ground. There is no evidence of a mound. 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 Clydagh Upper.
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 10 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 Clydagh Upper.
- 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 Clydagh Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Clydagh Upper · Claídeach Uachtarach
- Area
- 814,823 m² (81.48 ha, 201.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltullagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Ballinlough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballinlough electoral division: 1,138 people in 465 households; 78% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrick, Cashel, Clydagh Lower, Coolatinny, Scregg
- Placenames
- Clydagh Upper 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.