Cuiltyconeen
Townland in the civil parish of Tumna, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 56.1 ha
- 139 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 5,644 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuiltyconeen, from 201 m² to 268,600 m² (26.86 ha, 66.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Cuiltyconeen 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
29 Jan 2025Conditional
Permission for development consisting of a solar farm development comprising of: the installation of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames in rows; a 38kV ESB electricity substation compound including a single storey substation building and electrical infrastructure; up to 23 no. single inverter stations (or an alternative string inverter provision); ducting and underground electrical cabling; provision of some new internal access tracks and use of some existing agricultural tracks; storage containers; perimeter fencing; pole mounted CCTV cameras; vehicular access via existing private roads that connect directly to the L50783; construction of 2 no. passing bays along the L50783 and all associated site development and landscaping works. All on a site of approximately 37.97 hectares. The solar farm will have an operational lifespan of 40 years and an estimated export capacity of 30MW approx. of electricity. Planning permission is sought for a duration of 10 years at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560026
19 Jan 2017Refused
for a storage shed for the storage and maintenance of quad bikes associated with existing quad bike facility and to vary Condition No. 3 of PD/11/9 to allow the utilisation of up to 35 vehicles during any one circuit on site (i.e. on the whole site at any given time) at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1717
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Drumharlow 001643
Recorded monuments
- RO011-010 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise with a SW-NE stream c. 50m to the NW. Oval overgrown area in a deciduous wood (dims. 27.8 N-S; 23.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m at S to 3.2m at E; int. H 0.2-0.35m; ext. H 0.65-0.8m) E-S and a scarp (H 0.4m at NE to 1.8m at W) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (wth of base 3m; D 0.2-0.3m) NE-SE. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO011-016 Ringfort - rath
Description
On top of a low SW-NE rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37m N-S; 34.5m E-W) with some trees on the perimeter defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6m; int. H. 0.95m) E-SE and at SW which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m at S to 1.1m at N) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 4-6.2m; Wth of base 2.2m at W to 3.2m at E; D 0.3m at S to 0.8m at SE) NE-W. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO011-165001 Burnt mound
Description
At the bottom of a N-facing slope. Discovered in monitoring (04E1374) a road project during 2003 (Gannon 2004, 7-8, site 13). Portion of a mound of broken and burnt stone in a black matrix with charred organic material was revealed in a trench (visible dims 4m x 1.8m) with a smaller spread (diam. 1.2m) upslope. It was preserved in situ under a laneway. Burnt mound (RO011-165002-) is c. 7m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO011-165002 Burnt mound
Description
On a N-facing slope. Revealed in monitoring (03E1374) a road project. A spread of broken and burnt stone with charred organic material (visible dims 8.5m x 4.5m) was revealed in a trench, with a small area of grey and red material (diam. c. 1m) nearby, which might be a hearth. It is preserved in situ beneath a lane. Burnt mound (RO011-165001-) is c. 7m to N. (Gannon 2004, 8, site 14) 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 Cuiltyconeen.
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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1423 (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 Cuiltyconeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cuiltyconeen
- Area
- 561,169 m² (56.12 ha, 138.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tumna, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Killukin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killukin electoral division: 282 people in 99 households; 91% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardchamoyle, Cloongownagh, Dorrary, Meera, Sroankeeragh, Tumna
- Placenames
- Cuiltyconeen 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.