Kanefield
Townland in the civil parish of Baslick, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 64.8 ha
- 160 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 10,667 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kanefield, from 547 m² to 82,803 m² (8.28 ha, 20.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Kanefield 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 May 2025Conditional
Permission for the following works to an existing dwelling house: 1.) Demolition of existing rear extension, 2.) Construction of a new two-storey rear extension, 3.) Renovation works to include changes to front elevation, and 4.) Decommissioning of existing septic tank and replacement with a new proprietary effluent treatment system, together with connections to existing services and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560231
1 Apr 2021Conditional
for construction of 5 bedroom 1.5 storey detached dwelling, packaged wastewater treatment system and raised percolation area to EPA CoP 2009 Guidelines (P.I.A approved) to En12566-3 Standards, construction of a one-car garage/fuel store, entrance gates and front roadside wall, gravel driveway and all required associated site works, including connection to existing water mains on property at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21163
20 Sept 2017Conditional
To construct a new 5 Bay Slatted Cattle Shed, together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17388
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 Kanefield.
Recorded monuments
- RO021-073001 Enclosure
Description
Visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: V206/10-11), and situated in a slight fold on an undulating landscape. Rectangular area (dims 22.6m NW-SE; 20.8m NE-SW) defined by earthen banks (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.8-1m) at NE and SW, by a scarp (H 0.4m) at NW and a field wall and townland boundary with Rathfuadagh at SE. To the SE is a triangular field (RO021-073002-) (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 30m E-W at S) divided into smaller plots by stone spreads (Wth c. 1m; H c. 0.2m). 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 Kanefield.
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 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 Kanefield.
- 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 Kanefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Kanefield
- Area
- 648,147 m² (64.81 ha, 160.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Baslick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Castleplunket, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleplunket electoral division: 563 people in 208 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyglass, Gortnasillagh, Rathfuadagh, Rathmoyle
- Placenames
- Kanefield 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.