Dower

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dower, from 1,023 m² to 94,419 m² (9.44 ha, 23.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Dower 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.

• 4 Dec 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct a dwelling house, entrance by boundary wall and install a septic tank and percolation area at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560574

• 17 Aug 2023Conditional

  Permission to retain as constructed domestic garage, together with all associated site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 23344

• 24 Jul 2023N/a

  Retention Permission to retain and complete partially constructed domestic garage, together with all associated site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 23319

• 28 Jun 2023N/a

  Permission to retain and complete partially constructed domestic garage together with all associated site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 23281

• 17 Apr 2023N/a

  Retention Permission to retain and complete partially constructed domestic garage, together with all associated site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 23139

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Gara SPA 004048
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gara 000587

Recorded monuments

• RO009-029 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: V221, 126-7) as a rectangular feature (dims c. 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a narrow vegetation mark. Situated on a level landscape c. 200m from the S shore of the Callow Lough of Upper Lough Gara, it is not visible at ground level. The bawn (RO009-030----) of Callow castle is c. 180m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-030001 Bawn
  Description

  A Mac Dermot Gall centre probably from the late 14th century, the castle was burnt by O'Donnell in 1527 (Ann Conn, 665). By 1580 it had been acquired by William Clifford whose family retained it into the 1650s when the land passed to the French and King families. Callow castle was burned in 1596 by Irish rebels. (Mac Dermot 1996, 381-2; 449; O'Conor, 2007, 197-8). Known as Caladh Lochae Deichet, Caislead an Chalaidh or Carrickbeg, and locally as 'Babhdhun a Chaluidh' in the mid-19th century according to J. O'Donovan when it was thought to have been owned by Drury (O'Flanagan 1933, 112). Situated on flat ground c. 130m from the present S shore of Callow Lough, although at one time it was at the shore (OS 1837 6-inch map). It is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 77m E-W; 60m N-S) defined by a wall (T 0.6m; max. int. H 1.1m) at W and fragments of a similar wall at E which has the remains of a tower at the SE angle. The outer flat-bottomed fosse at W (Wth of top 9m; D 0.5m) and S (Wth of top 8-9m; D 1.25m) is represented by a band of rushes (Wth 5m) at E, and a low scarp (H 0.6m) at N. A causeway (Wth 4m) crosses the fosse at S, and the E and W walls are now incorporated in N-S field walls. The grass-covered foundations (Wth 1m; H 0.2m) of a house (RO009-030001-) (int. dims 4.8m E-W; 4.5m N-S) are at the N edge of the interior, and the grass-covered foundations (Wth 0.5m) of another structure (RO009-030002-) (int. dims 2.5m x 2.5m) are at the centre. The rectangular enclosure (RO009-029----) is c. 150m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-030002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape c. 150m from the present S shore of the Callow Lake of Upper Lough Gara. The grass-covered foundations (Wth 1m; H 0.2m) of a house (int. dims 4.8m E-W; 4.5m N-S) are at the N edge of the interior of the bawn (RO009-030001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-030003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape c. 150m from the present S shore of the Callow Lake of Upper Lough Gara, although at one time it was at the shore (OS 1837 6-inch map). The grass-covered foundations (Wth 0.5m) of a house structure (int. dims 2.5m x 2.5m) are at the centre of bawn (RO009-030001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-031001 Crannog
  Description

  On the S shore of the Callow Lough of Lough Gara. Overgrown oval island (dims. 38m N-S; 22m E-W; H up to 3m) of earth with stone and bones visible on the N side. There was one vertical plank at the E side. (Fredengren 2002, App. 1, P 62; Kiln 017) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-031002 Crannog
  Description

  Just off the S shore of the Callow Lough of Lough Gara. Oval cairn (dims. 26m E-W; 17.5m N-S; H over lake bottom 1.5m). (Fredengren 2002, App. 1, P 63; Kiln 019) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-031003 Crannog
  Description

  On wet meadowland on the S shore of the Callow Lough of Lough Gara. Oval grass-covered mound (dims. 17m E-W; 10m N-S; H 0.5m). (Fredengren 2002, App. 1 P62; Kiln 018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped feature (dims. c. 25m E-W; c. 20m N-S), and situated on a W-facing slope at the W end of a low WNW-ESE ridge. Described as a D-shaped area defined by an earthen bank and fosse (Gannon 1972). D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 24m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by a N-S field bank at W, and an E-W field bank at N. There are quarries (Wth of top 8m; int. D 1.2m; ext. D 0.5m) on the line of the bank E-S, but a fragment of the bank (Wth c. 3m H 0.3m) survives at E (L c. 5m). No trace of the monument can be seen beyond the field banks. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-086 Crannog
  Description

  On a slight rise in a meadow on the S shore of the Callow Lough of Lough Gara. Oval cairn (dims. 24.7m E-W; 21.6m N-S; H 0.5m). (Fredengren 2002, App. 1, P 63; Kiln 020) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-087 Crannog
  Description

  On a slight rise in a meadow on the S shore of the Callow Lough of Lough Gara. Circular cairn (diam. 37m E-W; 36m N-S; H 0.5m) which may be natural. (Fredengren 2002, App. 1, P 63; Kiln 021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-088 Crannog
  Description

  In the water on the S shore of the Callow Lough of Upper Lough Gara. Oval grass and scrub-covered mound (dims. 21m E-W; 13m N-S; H 1.5m) with boulders at the perimeter. (Fredengren 2002, App. 1, P 63; Kiln 022) 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 Dower.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Dower.

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.

No address of the register names Dower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Dower

Area

505,749 m² (50.57 ha, 124.97 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamanagh, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Frenchpark, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Frenchpark electoral division: 1,018 people in 391 households; 72% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmore, Barnaboy, Carrownurlar, Runnameelta

Placenames

Dower 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.