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

Townland in the civil parish of Kilglass, barony of Ballintober North, Co. Roscommon.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 728,036 m² (72.8 ha, 179.9 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,202 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilglass, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/kilglass.md
- Barony: Ballintober North
- Electoral division: Ballygarden, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 223 people lived in 82 households in the Ballygarden electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/43770
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 191232
- Centre: latitude 53.800398, longitude -8.04546 (WGS 84)

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

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gillstown, from 3,860 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres) to 712,177 m² (71.22 ha, 175.98 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 679746: 712,177 m² (71.22 ha, 175.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/679746.md
- Parcel 720289: 6,055 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/720289.md
- Parcel 708034: 4,350 m² (0.44 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/708034.md
- Parcel 658659: 3,860 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/658659.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Gillstown 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)

3 applications, newest first.

- 22 Feb 2021, Roscommon County Council 21101: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for development which will consist of: Demolition of the porch to the front of the house, two storey return and outbuilding to the rear; Decommissioning of the existing septic tank and removal of the entire roof to Gillstown House; Construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear, two storey extension to the rear; House to have a new roof with rooflights; Repair and alteration to the garden walls to the house itself; Provision of a new waste water treatment plant with a percolation area, drainage and waste water disposal; Repair of the front gate to the road frontage and all associated site works (Application made for PERMISSION for development which will consist of: Demolition of the porch to the front of the house, two storey return and outbuilding to the rear; Decommissioning of the existing septic tank and removal of the entire roof to Gillstown House; Construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear, two storey extension to the rear, two storey entrance extension to the front; House to have a new roof with rooflights; Repair and alteration to the garden walls to the house itself; Provision of a new waste water treatment plant with a percolation area, drainage and waste water disposal; Repair of the front gate to the road frontage and all associated site works) at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/21101/0
- 8 Feb 2021, Roscommon County Council 2171: N/a. Permission. for demolition of the two storey return and outbuilding to the rear and removal of the entire roof to Gillstown House. Construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear, two storey extension to the rear, two storey entrance extension to the front. House to have a new roof with rooflights. Repair and alteration to the garden walls to the house itself. Provision of a new waste water treatment plant with a percolation area, drainage and waste water disposal. Repair of the front gate to the road frontage and all associated site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2171/0
- 22 Oct 2019, Roscommon County Council 19544: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for (a) To retain existing domestic shed as constructed. Permission is sought for: (a) The demolition of existing front porch. (b) The construction of an extension to an existing dwelling house. (c) Elevational changes of existing dwelling house. (d) Relocation of existing roadside entrance. (e) Along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/19544/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilglass And Grange Loughs, site code 000608

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

- RO023-143001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO023-143001-. On a gentle SW-facing slope with a S-N section of the Scrammoge River c. 220m to the W. Described as a circular area (diam. c. 34m N-S) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse with a possible hut site (RO023-143002-) at the centre (Gannon 1972). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-143002: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO023-143002-. On a gentle SW-facing slope. Described as a hut site at the centre of rath (RO023-143001-) (Gannon 1972). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-144: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO023-144----. On a gentle E-facing slope. Subcircular or D-shaped grass-covered area used as a haggard (dims 65.2m NE-SW; 58m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.4-4.6m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) E-S-N, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) N-E and incorporated into a field boundary S-W, and a complete fosse (Wth of top 3.8-4.7m; Wth of base 2.4-2.8m; D 0.2-0.6m) which is re-cut as a drain S-W. The original entrance is not identified, while the perimeter at NW and parts of the interior have been quarried. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-198001: Bridge, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO023-198001-. A bridge is marked on the Petty map of Roscommon barony dated 1683 between Clonycoylemore (Clooneen) and Ballytynne (Ballyfeeny) townlands. It is on the boundary of the parishes of Bumlin in Roscommon barony and Kilglass in Ballintober North. A three-arch bridge (L c. 15m) with dressed voussoirs is built as one unit (Wth c. 6m) across the S-N Scramoge River. The present bridge may be 18th century in date. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-198002: Water mill - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO023-198002-. Marked as a ruined mill on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 6.7m E-W; 6.1m N-S; H 1m) surviving as a grass-covered cairn with external wall-facings visible (H c. 0.4m at E to 2m at W). It extends into the S-N River Scramoge on the E bank, c. 13m N of the bridge (RO023-198001-). 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 Gillstown.

## 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 Gillstown, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gillstown.
- 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/gillstown.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/gillstown.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/gillstown.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gillstown 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)

- Ballyfeeny: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ballyfeeny-190167.md
- Ballymartin: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ballymartin.md
- Clooneen (Hartland): https://everytownland.com/roscommon/clooneen-hartland.md
- Corgowan: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/corgowan.md
- Glen: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/glen.md
- Tully: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/tully-192024.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/gillstown
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/gillstown