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

Townland in the civil parish of Kilcooley, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 432,138 m² (43.21 ha, 106.78 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 24,225 m² (2.42 ha, 5.99 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilcooley, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/kilcooley.md
- Barony: Roscommon
- Electoral division: Tulsk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 326 people lived in 115 households in the Tulsk electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/44442
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 191367
- Centre: latitude 53.768535, longitude -8.207557 (WGS 84)

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

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcooley, from 2,553 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres) to 82,524 m² (8.25 ha, 20.39 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 683187: 82,524 m² (8.25 ha, 20.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/683187.md
- Parcel 673899: 47,442 m² (4.74 ha, 11.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/673899.md
- Parcel 653493: 40,331 m² (4.03 ha, 9.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/653493.md
- Parcel 647277: 38,280 m² (3.83 ha, 9.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/647277.md
- Parcel 696082: 34,941 m² (3.49 ha, 8.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/696082.md
- Parcel 662187: 29,509 m² (2.95 ha, 7.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/662187.md
- Parcel 649310: 27,763 m² (2.78 ha, 6.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/649310.md
- Parcel 705300: 27,678 m² (2.77 ha, 6.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/705300.md
- Parcel 677603: 25,554 m² (2.56 ha, 6.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/677603.md
- Parcel 713104: 22,895 m² (2.29 ha, 5.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/713104.md
- Parcel 686813: 20,136 m² (2.01 ha, 4.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/686813.md
- Parcel 695100: 12,254 m² (1.23 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/695100.md
- Parcel 683715: 6,658 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/683715.md
- Parcel 655823: 3,413 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/655823.md
- Parcel 672661: 3,177 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/672661.md
- Parcel 3644029: 3,020 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3644029.md
- Parcel 688056: 2,567 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/688056.md
- Parcel 3729998: 2,553 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3729998.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Kilcooley 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)

No planning application touches the townland of Kilcooley in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilcooley.

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

- RO028-046001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO028-046001-. The parish church of Kilcooley, listed as Kiliculy in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 223), and situated on a broad low hill. The S wall of the church is incorporated into the S. wall of the rectangular graveyard (RO028-046002-) (dims 42m E-W; 28m N-S) and the graveyard has been extended to the W (dims c. 80m E-W; 28m N-S). Within the old graveyard the outline of the church (int. dims 26m E-W; 6.3m N-S) can be seen in the spread of the W, N and E walls (Wth 2.5-4m; H 0.1-0.3m). The rounded head of a window (RO028-046005-) (dims 0.22m x 0.2m; T 0.3m) and a grave-marker with a chamfer and rebate for a doorway (H 0.4m) suggest work of the 12th century and the later middle ages. N of the old graveyard is field system (RO028-046003-). Archaeological testing (09E0228) c. 100m W of the old graveyard and church on the other side of the entry lane produced no related material (Purcell 2012). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO028-046002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO028-046002-. On a broad low hill. Rectangular graveyard (dims 42m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by masonry walls has been extended to the W (dims c. 80m E-W; 28m N-S). The S wall of the church (RO028-046001-) is incorporated in the S wall of the old graveyard. Archaeological testing (09E0228) c. 100m W of the old graveyard and on the other side of the entry lane produced no related archaeological material (Purcell 2012). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 June, 2012
- RO028-046003: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO028-046003-. On a broad low hill N of the church site of Kilcooley (RO028-046001-). North of the graveyard (RO028-046002-) is a rectangular enclosure visible as a grass-covered platform (dims 44m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by scarps (at W: H 0.3m) with a bank (Wth 3-3.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m-0.8m) on the N and W sides. Immediately to the N of this a SW-NE roadway (RO028-046004-) (Wth 12m) defined by earthen banks (Wth 3.5-4.5m; int. H 0.3-0.8m; ext. H 0.2m) extends off to the NE in interrupted sections (L c. 450m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO028-046004: Road - road/trackway, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO028-046004-. On a broad low hill N of the church site of Kilcooley (RO028-046001-). NW of the graveyard (RO028-046002-) is a SW-NE roadway (Wth 12m) defined by earthen banks (Wth 3.5-4.5m; int. H 0.3-0.8m; ext. H 0.2m) extending off to the NE in interrupted sections (L c. 450m). At the W end it connects with the S-N entrance lane to the graveyard and continued SW to meet the N5 road. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO028-046005: Architectural fragment, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO028-046005-. The rounded head of a window (RO028-046005-) (dims 0.22m x 0.2m; T 0.3m) and a grave-marker with a chamfer and rebate for a doorway (H 0.4m) in the old graveyard (RO028-046002-) suggest two periods of construction at the church of Kilcooley (RO028-046001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO028-047: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO028-047----. Indicated on the 1837 and 1930 eds of the OS 6-inch map as an enclosure cut by an E-W road. Situated on a broad plateau. An arc (C 22m E-W) of an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m), frequently reduced to a scarp (H 0.6-0.7m) and with slight traces of a fosse (Wth of base 3m) survives NW-NE on the N side of the Strokestown - Tulsk road (N5). A section of the perimeter survives S of the road incorporated into a curving field bank (Wth 1.6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.3m) SW-W (diam. c. 39m N-S; c. 36m E-W). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO028-244: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO028-244----. On top of a broad hill. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 29.9m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2-3.5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.5-0.7m), with a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 4-6.6m; Wth of base 2.2-3m; D 0.3-0.7m) NE-S-W and an outer bank (Wth 2.2m; ext. H 0.2m) S-NW. There is an entrance (Wth 3.4m) at SE. The monument is overlain by an E-W field bank and outer drain at N, which distorts the perimeter here, and the interior is overlain by a NNE-SSW relict field bank. 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 Kilcooley.

## 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 Kilcooley, about 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilcooley.
- 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/kilcooley.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/kilcooley.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/kilcooley.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Kilcooley 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)

- Ardkeenagh (Plunkett): https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ardkeenagh-plunkett.md
- Cartron: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/cartron-190496.md
- Cloonanart Beg: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/cloonanart-beg.md
- Clooncullaan: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/clooncullaan-190636.md
- Corrabeg: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/corrabeg.md
- Lissaphuca: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/lissaphuca-191609.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.

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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/kilcooley
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/kilcooley