Cuilglass

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuilglass, from 1 m² to 82,010 m² (8.2 ha, 20.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Cuilglass 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.

• 21 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission for the construction and operation of a solar PV farm, which will operate as an extension of the consented TDC Community Solar Park (Roscommon County Council Planning Ref. 20/36). The solar PV development will consist of solar arrays on ground mounted steel frames, with a maximum overall height of 3 metres, over an area of 60 ha and ancillary electrical equipment including string inverters and up to 13 no. transformer stations, and all other associated site development works and services, including: Internal solar PV farm underground electrical cabling and ducting; 1 no. temporary construction compound; Security fencing; CCTV camera stands; Provision of internal access tracks, including the installation of clearspan bridge structures, linking the solar PV development with the consented TDC Community Solar Park track network; Site drainage and landscaping, as required to facilitate the development. The solar PV development will use the site entrance (via the L2026 local road) consented under Pl Ref. 20/36. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years with an operational life of 30 years from the date of commissioning. (The application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)) at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21350

• 14 Aug 2020Conditional

  to construct extension to existing dwelling, the development will consist of a modified front façade and extension to rear of existing single storey dwelling all on site at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20316

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 Cuilglass.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cuilglass.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cuilglass.

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 Cuilglass, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1519 (ZIP).

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

Name

Cuilglass

Area

172,561 m² (17.26 ha, 42.64 acres)

Civil parish

Drum, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Thomastown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

777 people lived in 264 households in the Thomastown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagawna, Bellanamullia, Creagh, Mihanboy

Placenames

Cuilglass 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.