# Dower, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilnamanagh, barony of Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 505,749 m² (50.57 ha, 124.97 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,143 m² (1.91 ha, 4.73 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilnamanagh, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/kilnamanagh.md
- Barony: Frenchpark
- Electoral division: Frenchpark, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/43628
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 191081
- Centre: latitude 53.90741, longitude -8.442753 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dower, from 1,023 m² to 94,419 m² (9.44 ha, 23.33 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 674679: 94,419 m² (9.44 ha, 23.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/674679.md
- Parcel 679901: 83,967 m² (8.4 ha, 20.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/679901.md
- Parcel 646755: 82,824 m² (8.28 ha, 20.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/646755.md
- Parcel 646742: 71,279 m² (7.13 ha, 17.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/646742.md
- Parcel 649463: 42,211 m² (4.22 ha, 10.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/649463.md
- Parcel 710527: 37,771 m² (3.78 ha, 9.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/710527.md
- Parcel 708000: 33,451 m² (3.35 ha, 8.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/708000.md
- Parcel 651394: 4,834 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/651394.md
- Parcel 714471: 4,712 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/714471.md
- Parcel 2491929: 3,454 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2491929.md
- Parcel 2953732: 2,550 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2953732.md
- Parcel 2952926: 2,461 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2952926.md
- Parcel 645343: 1,636 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/645343.md
- Parcel 643464: 1,023 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/643464.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 4 Dec 2025, Roscommon County Council 2560574: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a dwelling house, entrance by boundary wall and install a septic tank and percolation area at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560574/0
- 17 Aug 2023, Roscommon County Council 23344: Conditional. Retention. Permission to retain as constructed domestic garage, together with all associated site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/23344/0
- 24 Jul 2023, Roscommon County Council 23319: N/a. Retention. Retention Permission to retain and complete partially constructed domestic garage, together with all associated site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/23319/0
- 28 Jun 2023, Roscommon County Council 23281: N/a. Retention. Permission to retain and complete partially constructed domestic garage together with all associated site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/23281/0
- 17 Apr 2023, Roscommon County Council 23139: N/a. Retention. Retention Permission to retain and complete partially constructed domestic garage, together with all associated site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/23139/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Protection Area: Lough Gara SPA, site code 004048, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004048
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gara, site code 000587

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- RO009-029: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO009-029----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO009-030001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO009-030002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO009-030003-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO009-031001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO009-031002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO009-031003-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO009-049----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO009-086----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO009-087----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO009-088----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/dower.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/dower.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/dower.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Dower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ardmore: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ardmore-190079.md
- Barnaboy: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/barnaboy-190223.md
- Carrownurlar: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/carrownurlar-190467.md
- Runnameelta: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/runnameelta.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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