Glenrevagh
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeane, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 68.9 ha
- 170 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 147,790 m² (14.78 ha, 36.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenrevagh, from 3,808 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres) to 388,663 m² (38.87 ha, 96.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Glenrevagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Nov 2021Conditional
Permission for development consisting of a one part two storey & one part single-storey four-bedroom dwelling, comprising of open plan kitchen and dining room, living room, accessible bathroom, home office, utility area, garage & new waste water treatment system and ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21653
11 Nov 2021N/a
Permission for development which will be a one part two storey and one part single-storey four-bedroom dwelling, comprising of open plan kitchen and dining room, living room, accessible bathroom, home office, utility area, garage and new waste water treatment system and ancillary works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21643
29 Oct 2021N/a
Permission for development consisting of a one part two storey and one part single-storey four- bedroom dwelling, comprising of open plan kitchen and dining room, living room, accessible bathroom, home office, utility area, garage & new waste water treatment system and ancillary works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21619
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Glenrevagh.
Recorded monuments
- RO042-073001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a col with hills c. 1.7m to the NNW and c. 1.1km to the SW. Circular grass and fern-covered area (diam. 43.5m N-S; 42.7m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-5m; int. H 0.95-1m; ext. H 1.9-1.95) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 5.5-6m; Wth of base 1.8-2.7m; ext. D 1.2-1.3m) from an outer bank (at N: Wth 4.3m; ext. H 0.85m) ENE-S-N, which is overlain by a field wall NW-E. There is a wide entrance with a causeway, probably modern, at SW. There is a well (RO042-073003-) at the centre and numerous cairns, one of which inside the perimeter at WNW may be a lime-kiln (RO042-073002-). There is a terrace inside the perimeter at NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO042-073002 Kiln - lime
Description
On a col with hills c. 1.7km to the NNW and c. 1.1km to the SW. There are numerous cairns in the interior of rath (RO042-073001-), one of which inside the perimeter at WNW may be a lime-kiln. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO042-073003 Well
Description
On a col with hills c. 1.7km to the NNW and c. 1.1km to the SW. There is a well covered over with stones at the centre of rath (RO042-073001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO042-076 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a NE-facing slope in a col with hills c. 2.5km to the NNW and c. 600m to the W, and at the head of a SE-NW valley. Oval scrub-covered area (dims 37.6m NNW-SSE; 30.3m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank with bushes and scrub (Wth 3.6-5m; int. H 0.75-1.2m; ext. H 2.15-2.4m) and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 4.4-7m; Wth of base 1.7-3.3m; D 0.65-1m), with an outer bank (at NNW: Wth 4m; ext. H 0.8m) NW-ESE. The entrance (Wth 1.4m) and causeway are at ENE. 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 Glenrevagh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Glenrevagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Glenrevagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Glenrevagh
- Area
- 689,008 m² (68.9 ha, 170.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Athleague East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Athleague East electoral division: 510 people in 184 households; 87% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowmoney, Kilcash, Kilglass, Skrine
- Placenames
- Glenrevagh 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.