Eskerbaun

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eskerbaun, from 46 m² to 150,423 m² (15.04 ha, 37.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Eskerbaun 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.

• 15 Jul 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct an extension to existing dwelling. The extension will consist of an extended living quarters. The application will also include the replacement of an existing septic tank, revisions to existing elevations, internal changes and all associated site-works and drainage at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560345

• 17 Jun 2025N/a

  Permission to construct an extension to their existing dwelling. The extension will consist of an extended living quarters. The application will also include the replacement of an existing septic tank, revisions to existing elevations, internal changes and all associated site-works and drainage.

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560292

• 5 Feb 2025Conditional

  Planning permission for a change of house design from that previously granted under planning ref. PD/21/465, along with all ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560037

• 13 Aug 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct an extension to existing dwelling. The extension will consist of an additional bedroom and extended living quarters. The application will also include the replacement of an existing septic tank, revisions to existing elevations and all associated site-works and drainage at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460379

• 6 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission for the following: (i) The conversion of the existing 3 No. Classroom school building into a 2 No. Classroom SEN base and all associated alterations, including an extension to its North-western gable. (ii) The demolition of an existing play shed, boiler house and removal of 2 existing small prefabricated units. (iii) The construction of a connecting single-storey 3 No. Mainstream Classroom extension to the rear of the existing school building (East), together with all associated ancillary educational spaces and circulation. (iv)The decommissioning of the existing waste-water treatment system and the provision of new waste-water treatment system and installation of a raised percolation area and diversion of existing underground drain. (v)The provision of a new Astro-pitch and associated hard and soft play areas. (vi) Together with the provision of a pedestrian footpath and all associated ancillary site works along with connections to services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360162

• 17 Jul 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct a domestic garage / store. The proposed garage will also include a WC and office. The application will also include all associated site-works and drainage at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23308

• 27 Jun 2023N/a

  Permission to construct a domestic garage/store. The proposed garage will also include a WC and office. The application will also include all associated site-works and drainage at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23280

• 10 Mar 2022Conditional

  Permission for a domestic garage and ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22136

• 16 Aug 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house with domestic garage and proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21465

• 5 Jan 2021Conditional

  to construct a new extension to existing dwelling house, along with internal and external alterations to the existing structure, with associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 212

• 4 Feb 2019Conditional

  Planning permission to construct a slatted shed and manure pit to include concrete apron and all associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1942

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 Eskerbaun.

Recorded monuments

• RO048-076 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular, slightly domed, grass-covered but poached area (int. diam. 37m NNE-SSW; 35.8m WNW-ESE) defined by the grass-covered foundations of a stone wall (Wth 1.75-1.85m; max. H 0.65m), best preserved NE-SE. There is a stone-lined entrance (Wth 2.2m) at ENE. A slight wall running from the centre towards the perimeter at NW may be a remnant of an overlying field system. The perimeter is overlain by an ENE-WSW field wall at N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-077 Sweathouse
  Description

  On the NE-facing slope of a small ridge with houses at the roadside c. 100m to the E. It is not marked on any ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is a partially collapsed beehive chamber (int. dims 1.8m WNW-ESE;1.3m NNE-SSW; surviving H 1.4m) with a destroyed entrance at ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-108004 Penitential station
  Description

  At the W edge of a low-lying basin. This grass-covered cairn (diam. of base 8.3m; diam. of top 3.3m; H 0.6m at W to 1.5m at E) surmounted by a chestnut tree, a glacial erratic (RO048-108006-) and a second cairn (RO048-108007-), now removed and replaced by a statue of St Bridget, c. 10m W of the bath-house (RO048-108001-) were part of the pattern. A revived pattern is still held at the end of July. (Weld 1832, 514-8) See the attached view of this cairn taken from the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-108006 Penitential station
  Description

  At the W edge of a low-lying basin. A glacial erratic (dims. 2.4m x 1.15m; H 0.6m) that is thought to have the imprint of the saint's knees is part of the pattern at Brideswell holy well (RO048-108001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-108008 Penitential station
  Description

  At the W edge of a low-lying basin and c. 110m N of St. Bridget's well (RO048-108001-) and immediately N of the 17th century house (RO048-188----). A cairn consisting of a kerb (ext. diam. 9m) of large stones (dims c. 0.8-1m x 0.3-0.5m; H up to 0.7m) NW-E-S surrounds a tree. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-188 House - 17th century
  Description

  On low-lying ground close to a marsh which extends off to the S and E. The W gable (L 6m) and adjacent parts of the N and S walls of a house which had two storeys and an attic survives. It is now incorporated into a handball alley, which extends to the W, and no diagnostic features are visible, but it was part of the rounds of St Bridget's Well (RO048-108001-), c. 100m to the SSE and may have been the house known as 'Tigh Sean an Tobair' (Kelly 1907, 7). 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 Eskerbaun.

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 5 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Eskerbaun

Area

1,860,014 m² (186 ha, 459.62 acres)

Civil parish

Cam, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Ballynamona, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynamona electoral division: 547 people in 178 households; 88% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brideswell, Cam, Curraghboy, Derryglad, Ratawragh

Placenames

Eskerbaun 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.