Keelty
Townland in the civil parish of Drum, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 78.6 ha
- 194 acres
- Land parcels
- 75
- registered freehold, median 2,500 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keelty, from 30 m² to 125,526 m² (12.55 ha, 31.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Keelty 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
5 Feb 2025Conditional
Permission for a change of house design, as previously granted under PD/20/93 and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560036
23 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission for the following: Retention of annex/single storey extension (area 81m²) to eastern side of original house (PD/14869/82) comprising of WC, lobby, games room/gym, study, fuel store, boiler house and standalone garden shed (9m²), together with associated site works at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460555
6 Sept 2024N/a
Retention Permission for: Retention of existing 3 Bedroom bungalow house, septic tank and associated site works, built substantially in accordance with granted permission ref: PD/14869/82 (area = 114.7m2), Retention of annex/single storey extension to eastern side of original house (area 81m2) comprising of WC, Lobby, Games room/gym, study, fuel store, boiler house and standalone garden shed (9m2), together with associated site works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2460424
7 May 2024Conditional
Permission for a proposed new bungalow dwelling & domestic garage, new proprietary treatment system with polishing filter, and all ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460207
11 Aug 2023Conditional
Permission: 1. To retain as constructed shared access road 2. To construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new Treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360042
25 Oct 2022Refused
Permission to erect a dwelling house, install a secondary waste water treatment unit with a soil polishing filter and to construct all ancillary site works to facilitate same at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22576
17 Jun 2022Conditional
Permission for development consisting of partial demolition to the rear of the existing dwelling; construction of a single storey extension to the rear, single storey extension to the side and proposed porch to the front with internal alterations to the existing dwelling; decommissioning of an existing septic tank and provision of a new tertiary treatment system and infiltration area; widening of the existing vehicular entrance; and all ancillary site works at Rathuil, Keelty Townland, Athlone, Co. Roscommon, in accordance with the plans submitted with the application. (Application made for development consisting of partial demolition to the rear of the existing dwelling; construction of two storey extension to the rear, single storey extension to the side and proposed porch to the front with internal alterations to the existing dwelling; decommissioning of an existing septic tank and provision of a new tertiary treatment system and infiltration area; widening of the existing vehicular entrance; and all ancillary site works) at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22301
27 May 2022N/a
Permission for development consisting of partial demolition to the rear of the existing dwelling; construction of two storey extension to the rear, single storey extension to the side and proposed porch to the front with internal alterations to the existing dwelling; decommissioning of an existing septic tank and provision of a new tertiary treatment system and infiltration area; widening of the existing vehicular entrance; and all ancilliary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22258
26 Apr 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22199
3 Mar 2021N/a
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21117
6 Mar 2020Conditional
permission to erect a dwelling house, install a septic tank with a percolation area and to construct all ancillary site works to facilitate same at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2093
6 Mar 2020Conditional
permission to erect a dwelling house, install a septic tank with a percolation area and to construct all ancillary site works to facilitate same at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2094
26 Feb 2020Refused
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and single dwelling treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2070
23 Nov 2018Conditional
the development will consist of the following: (I) The decommissioning of an existing septic tank and soak away area and installation of a new septic tank and percolation area to serve existing dwelling (ii) the provision of a timber post and rail fence to the north, south and east of site boundary of the new percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18579
14 Nov 2018Conditional
to erect an extension onto side elevation (south) of existing dwelling house and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18564
11 Sept 2018N/a
to erect an extension onto side elevation (south) of existing dwelling house and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18459
15 Jun 2018Conditional
development consisting of: Proposed Dwelling, sewage treatment system, percolation area, domestic garage and associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18291
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 Keelty.
Recorded monuments
- RO052-017001 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Marked on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature (diam. c. 20m), and situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 23.3m NNE-SSW; 23.1m WNW-ESE) defined by a re-built and overgrown stone wall (Wth 1.6-2.8m; int. H 0.5-1.1m; ext. H 0.6-1m) which has a drystone wall built on top of it all around, and spoil added outside NE-SSE. The entrance (Wth 4m) is at SW. Cashel (RO052-017002-) is c. 20m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO052-017002 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular field (dims c. 35m N-S; c. 35m E-W), and as an oval feature (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on the 1915 ed. It is situated on the S-facing slope of a rise in an undulating landscape. A length (C 10m) of an overgrown stone spread (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.5m) which has a drystone wall (L 10m; Wth 0.6m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.5m) on its inner, E, edge survives at E in a field boundary. Cashel (RO052-017001-) is c. 20m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO052-030 Burnt mound
Description
On a gently undulating landscape. A circular spread of grey silty clay with some broken and burnt stones (diam. 3.5m N-S; 3.3m E-W) was recorded (02E1042) in the course of laying a gas pipeline during 2002. (Quinn 2004b; Grogan et al. 2007, 332, No. 1611) 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 Keelty.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1550 (ZIP).
- 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 Keelty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Keelty
- Area
- 785,848 m² (78.58 ha, 194.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drum, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Crannagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Crannagh electoral division: 1,226 people in 399 households; 94% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crancam, Crannagh More, Garrynagawna, Keeloges, Kilmocolmock, Moynure
- Placenames
- Keelty 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.