Dundonnell

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dundonnell, from 136 m² to 271,467 m² (27.15 ha, 67.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Dundonnell 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 Aug 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct dwellinghouse, domestic garage and install waste water treatment unit with polishing filter at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23333

• 16 Mar 2022Conditional

  Permission to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system & associated siteworks at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22149

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  Permission to demolish a house at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21578

• 5 Jul 2019Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and install waste water treatment unit with polishing filter at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19344

• 30 Jan 2019Conditional

  to construct extensions to the front/rear of an existing dwelling, to carry out alterations to an existing dwelling, to retain domestic garage/fuel shed and all associated ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1934

• 31 Dec 2018N/a

  Planning permission to erect an extension to dwelling house and Retain domestic garage/fuel shed at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 18653

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 Dundonnell.

Recorded monuments

• RO051-025010 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  This is an 18th or 19th century road running N to the mill (RO051-025010-) at Bellany. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-045001 Architectural fragment
  Description

  The arch of a pointed doorway (Wth 1.13m; H 0.7m) with the rebate for the door and a small carving of a head and of a praying figure, both probably corbels taken from the church site of Bellaneeny (RO051-025003-) c. 600m to the NE, are now built into the walls of a yard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-045002 Architectural fragment
  Description

  The arch of a pointed doorway and a small carving of a head and of a praying figure, both probably corbels taken from the church site of Bellaneeny (RO051-025003-) c. 600m to the NE, are now built into the walls of a yard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-045003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  The arch of a pointed doorway and a small carving of a head and of a praying figure, both probably corbels taken from the church site of Bellaneeny (RO051-025003-) c. 600m to the NE, are now built into the walls of a yard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a D-shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W) truncated by a N-S field bank at E on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (diam. 26m E-W; c. 20m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth 7.2m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.5m) E-S-W separated by a fosse (at S: Wth of top 6.4m; Wth of base 2.4m; D 0.7m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.5m; H 0.5m), which only survives SW-W. The original entrance is not identified. The N part of the monument is destroyed by ancient quarrying and is now overgrown. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of amended upload: 17 November, 2015

• RO051-047001 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Located in the NW quadrant of ringwork (RO051-047002-). It may have been built by McKeoghs since land here were held by Shane McKeogh (died 1618) and in 1638 by Edmund Mc Colla McKeogh of Ardmullan (Moore 1978, 60). In 1641 Edmund Mc Colla held 150 acres at Dundonnel, most of it unprofitable, together with 64 acres at Shean, but the Dundonnel property and most of the Shean land was owned by Sir Thomas Newcommen by the 1660s (Simington 1949, 104-05). The house is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 13.9m WNW-ESE; 8.15m NNE-SSW) of three bays and two storeys with an attic surviving complete, except for much of the N wall and the quoinstones. The entrance was on the N wall and there is evidence of four destroyed lights on the ground floor and four gun-loops at the angles. The ground floor has a destroyed fireplace in the E gable but there is no evidence of a stairs. The first floor has destroyed fireplaces in the E and W gables and three windows in the S wall. The attic has two gun-loops in the E gable and a fireplace in the W (Curley 2011, 56). There are two diamond-shaped chimney-stacks on each gable and corbels from a machicolation over the NE angle. (Curley 2016, 60-1) See the attached image taken from the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 8 January, 2015

• RO051-047002 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  Situated at the S end of a low NNW-SSE ridge in a low-lying landscape. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 48m NW-SE; 41m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6-7.7m; int. H 0.6-0.8m; ext. H 3.2-3.8m) with traces of external facing-stones separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 9.8-11m; Wth of base 2-3m; D 1.8-2m) from an outer overgrown bank (Wth of base 6-6.2m; Wth of top 1m; H 0.8m) which is incorporated into a road bank NE-SE. The entrance (Wth 3.3m) and causeway (Wth 3m) are at NNE (max. ext. diam. 73m NW-SE). The late 16th or early 17th century house (RO051-047001-) is in the interior. It has been interpreted as a possible ringwork castle (Graham 1988, 28-9; Sweetman 1999, 197), and has been identified as the castle of Onagh that was built in 1236 and destroyed by Áedh O'Conor in 1270 (Curley 2011, 40-1; 2016). It has also been interpreted as a rath that was re-fortified when the house (RO051-047001-) was built (O'Conor 2007, 191-2). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 8 January 2015

• RO051-047003 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying landscape. The N end (dims c. 70m NNW-SSE; c. 50m NE-SW) of the low NNW-SSE ridge on which the ringwork castle (RO051-047002-) is located at the S end has a ditch around its base as revealed by LiDAR images, which could be interpreted as a bailey (Curley et al. 26-7) or could be a drainage channel. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 11 June 2018

• RO051-102 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  In a low-lying position, descending from an E-W ridge at S. A N-S road (L c. 800m), which passed just E of Dundonnell ringwork castle (RO051-047001-) is thought to connect with Bellaneeny church (RO051-025001-) c. 1.1 km from its N end, and to be part of a route extending N to Dysart church (RO047-060001-). This is a modern country road, with insufficient reason to think it ancient. 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 Dundonnell.

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 Dundonnell, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dundonnell.

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

Name

Dundonnell

Area

1,585,226 m² (158.52 ha, 391.72 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmaconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Carrowreagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

554 people lived in 189 households in the Carrowreagh electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellaneeny, Camlagh, Carrownure, Coolfree, Glennanea, Knock, Onagh

Placenames

Dundonnell 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.