Ishlaun

100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ishlaun, from 91 m² to 107,538 m² (10.75 ha, 26.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Ishlaun 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.

• 24 Sept 2026N/a

  Permission for Agricultural building of 209m2 for storage and maintenance of farm machinery at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2670

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for agricultural building 209m2 for storage and maintenance of farm machinery at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2665

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  to extend Tir na Nog Preschool together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17160

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 Ishlaun.

Recorded monuments

• RO008C028001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the crest of the SW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by an arc (C 50m) of an overgrown earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 3m) NW-E with gaps at N (Wth 0.8m) and NE (Wth 5m). There is no visible fosse and the perimeter is truncated by NNE-SSW field walls at E and W and by an E-W field bank at S. Souterrain (RO008C028002-) is inside the bank at N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 6 June 2015

• RO008C028002 Souterrain
  Description

  Inside the bank of rath (RO008C028001-) at N. A creep (Wth 0.5-0.8m; H 0.85m; L 0.9m) enters the W end of the S side of an E-W corbelled and lintelled passage (dims 4.8m E-W; 1.25m N-S; H 1.3m). Another creep (Wth 0.8m; H 0.5m; L 0.8m) at the E end of the N wall leads to a circular and corbelled beehive chamber (diam. 2.9m N-S; 2.8m E-W; H 1.1m) with a large closing lintel (dims 2m x 1.9m) which underlies the bank of the rath. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope at the E end of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 42m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by a poached earthen bank (Wth 2.75m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.8m) NW-E and a scarp (H 0.7m) elsewhere, with traces of a fosse (Wth of top 9.6m; Wth of base 2.4m; int. D 0.6m; ext. D 0.1m) SW-WSW. There is no visible entrance, and the interior is overlain by a WNW-ESE field wall S of the centre. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO013-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the N end of the crest of a low NW-SE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 36.2m E-W; 32.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown and gapped earthen bank (Wth 4.6-5.5m; int. H 0.6-0.8m; ext. H 1.4-1.5m), which has been truncated at E (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) by a N-S field bank outside it and reduced to a scarp (H c. 0.8m) W-N. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Archaeological testing (05E0122) c. 50m to the W failed to produce any related material (Read, C. 2008g). 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 Ishlaun.

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 Ishlaun, 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ishlaun

Area

1,500,389 m² (150.04 ha, 370.75 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballaghaderreen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,254 people lived in 1,218 households in the Ballaghaderreen electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass (Co. Mayo), Barnaboy, Clooncarha (Co. Mayo), Crunaun, Drumnalassan, Raherolus (Co. Mayo)

Placenames

Ishlaun 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.