Cuilnakeava
Townland in the civil parish of Taghboy, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 51.1 ha
- 126 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 10,477 m² (1.05 ha, 2.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuilnakeava, from 196 m² to 269,604 m² (26.96 ha, 66.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Cuilnakeava 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
16 Jun 2023Conditional
Permission for the installation of 33.50 square metre spectator shelter and for the installation of a 864 square metre all-weather artificial playing surface to include 2400mm high perimeter fencing together with all necessary ancillary siteworks on the existing sports facility at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23257
4 May 2018Conditional
Planning permission for the installation of 15 No. 6 metre high lighting columns to the perimeter athletic/walking track together with all necessary ancillary site works to the existing sports facility at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18217
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Four Roads Turlough SAC 001637
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Four Roads Turlough 001637
Recorded monuments
- RO044-059 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a slight E-W rise on a W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 39.5m N-S; 37.8m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5-5m; int. H 0.55-0.65m; ext. H 1-1.65m) with some bushes, which is reduced to a scarp (H 1m) NE-E. There is no visible fosse, although slight traces were once evident at S and W (Gannon 1972). There is an entrance (Wth 4m) at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO044-060 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a slight rise on a SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 7-9.5m; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 0.7m at E (upslope) to 1.5m at N and 2.2m at W) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) SE-SW. There is no visible fosse or entrance but there are lazy-beds in the interior. 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 Cuilnakeava.
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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1345 (ZIP).
- 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 Cuilnakeava with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cuilnakeava
- Area
- 510,603 m² (51.06 ha, 126.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Lackan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lackan electoral division: 379 people in 126 households; 94% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carricknagat, Carrowntlieve, Carrownurlar, Cloghan, Correal
- Placenames
- Cuilnakeava 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.