# Flegans, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kiltoom, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 131,480 m² (13.15 ha, 32.49 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,565 m² (1.56 ha, 3.85 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kiltoom, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/kiltoom.md - Barony: Athlone South - Electoral division: Rockhill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 436 people lived in 151 households in the Rockhill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42578 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 191196 - Centre: latitude 53.497723, longitude -8.050811 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Flegans, from 208 m² to 66,483 m² (6.65 ha, 16.43 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 714058: 66,483 m² (6.65 ha, 16.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/714058.md - Parcel 2818835: 32,156 m² (3.22 ha, 7.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2818835.md - Parcel 650302: 28,737 m² (2.87 ha, 7.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/650302.md - Parcel 4680404: 2,394 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4680404.md - Parcel 643480: 2,071 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/643480.md - Parcel 2492172: 208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2492172.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Flegans 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 27 Nov 2024, Roscommon County Council 2460559: Conditional. Permission. Permission for works to uprate approximately 35.7km of the overall 35.82km of the existing Athlone to Lanesboro 110 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit located within the administrative boundary within County Roscommon. The proposed development will consist of: • Replacement (“restringing”) and uprating of the conductor along the existing Athlone-Lanesboro 110 kV OHL circuit; • Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; • Replacement of 155No. Intermediate Wooden Polesets (IMPs), with similar structures, including poleset stays at 32No. IMPs. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 23m along the circuit, the majority of height increases will be between 0.1m and 2.0m (at 125 No. IMPs), with the remainder between 2.1m and 3.7m, and a 4.0m height increase at only one IMP. 3no. IMP replacements will not result in a height change; • Replacement of 25No. Intermediate Wooden Poleset crossarms; • Replacement of 1No. steel angle mast, the replacement structure will result in a height increase of 0.5m; • Foundation strengthening of 9No. steel angle masts, and 1No. end mast; • Bar member replacements to 12No. steel angle masts and 1No. end mast; and, •All associated development including insulator/hardware replacement (suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of signage, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anticlimbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application, the location of which begins at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460559/0 - 13 Apr 2021, Roscommon County Council 21184: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/21184/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Flegans. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - RO045-193: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO045-193----. On a gentle SSW-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 33.4m WNW-ESE; 30m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (at ESE: Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.6m), with intermittently visible facing stones N-SSE. The inner face of this bank has been exposed by quarrying, but elsewhere the perimeter is defined by a scarp (H 0.7m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. 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 Flegans. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Flegans, about 1 in 5 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: 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 Flegans. - 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/flegans.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/flegans.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/flegans.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Flegans 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) - Bredagh: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/bredagh-190287.md - Carrick: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/carrick-190348.md - Carrownderry: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/carrownderry.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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/flegans - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/flegans