Killappoge

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killappoge, from 160 m² to 108,796 m² (10.88 ha, 26.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Killappoge 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.

• 22 Oct 2025Refused

  Retention Permission for development consisting of the following: 1. The elevational changes to the exterior of the building including internal alterations to the building. 2. The steel storage container located to the rear of the existing building ancillary to the use of the building. 3. The ground mounted solar panels erected to the rear South East side of the existing building. 4. The modified/widened vehicular entrance to the South Western end of the site including all associated ancillary works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2560504

• 14 Jun 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of the demolition of the existing front (North East) porch and replacement with new, internal and external alterations, and associated site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18287

• 24 Apr 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a three bay double slatted shed to contain 2 No. cattle crushes and 3 No. feed passages together with all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18191

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 Killappoge.

Recorded monuments

• RO010-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a `Fort' on a Longfield Estate Map (MS. 16. D. 16) of 1811 in NLI, and situated on a slight rise overlooking wet ground to the E where there is a stream or drain c. 120m distant. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Its precise location is not certain. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-062001 Church
  Description

  It is identified with a St Mo Lappog, of whom nothing was known, by J. O'Donovan in the 1830s (O'Flanagan 1931 vol. 1, 112), and it was also known as Dromyn (D'Alton 1845, 89). Mo Lappog or Lapán is a familiar form of Labhraidh – he who speaks – and four instances of the name are known in Ireland but there is no saint of the name (Ó Riain 2011, 391). It may have been a chapel-of-ease to Killumod (RO011-106001-), c. 5.5km to the E. It is situated on top of a knoll. An ecclesiastical enclosure (RO010-062003-) is visible as a D-shaped or subtraingular grass-covered area (dims c. 65m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-4.7m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 1.1-1.65m) SE-SW, and a scarp (H 1.4-1.7m) elsewhere. There is no evidence of a church (RO010-062001-) or burial, although a rectangular graveyard (RO010-062002-) (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 30m N-S), of which nothing is now visible, is marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and human bones and copper ornaments were found there c. 1860 (OS Name Book). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-062002 Graveyard
  Description

  There is no evidence of burial at the church site (RO010-062001-), although a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 30m N-S), of which nothing is now visible, is marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and human bones and copper ornaments were found there c. 1860 (OS Name Book). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-062003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  It is identified with a St Mo Lappog, of whom nothing was known, by J. O'Donovan in the 1830s (O'Flanagan 1931 vol. 1, 112), and it was also known as Dromyn (D'Alton 1845, 89). Mo Lappog or Lapán is a familiar form of Labhraidh – he who speaks – and four instances are known in Ireland but there is no saint of the name (Ó Riain 2011, 391). It is situated on top of a knoll. An ecclesiastical enclosure (RO010-062003-) is visible as a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 65m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-4.7m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 1.1-1.65m) SE-SW, and a scarp (H 1.4-1.7m) elsewhere. There is no evidence of a church (RO010-062001-) or burial, although a rectangular graveyard (RO010-062002-) (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 30m N-S), of which nothing is now visible, is marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and human bones and copper ornaments were found there c. 1860 (OS Name Book). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 8 June 2015

Architectural heritage

• Holy Trinity Church (Killummod), church/chapel, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Church of Ireland church, built c.1810, comprising four-bay nave with engaged tower with spire, projecting chancel to east and vestry. Pitched slate roof with stone coping, finials, cast-iron ridge cresting to chancel and cast-iron rainwater goods with gutter supported by stone corbels and cat slide roof to sacristy. Random coursed limestone walls with stepped plinth, dressed quoins, openings and kneelers. Supporting buttresses to west gable and south tower. Coursed limestone ashlar spire with sandstone coursing with corbels to eaves and circular and pointed trefoil openings. Pointed-arched windows and doors with shouldered-arched door to vestry. Diamond paned and stained glass windows. Timber battened doors with blank date plaque over main door. Stone drains to downpipes. Entrance to crypt to base of chancel. Church is set off road in mature grounds with yew trees. Various upright and recumbent grave markers to site dating from c.1874 to present. Sundial to south side of church. Church and site bounded by random coursed limestone walls with stile and modern gateway.

• , 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched stone bridge, built c.1800, with cut stone voussoirs. Semi-circular plan random coursed limestone wall with three square-headed sluice gate openings. Bridge carries traffic over mill race. Similar to road bridge to the south-west also bridging mill race.

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

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 Killappoge.

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.

No address of the register names Killappoge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Killappoge

Area

732,395 m² (73.24 ha, 180.98 acres)

Civil parish

Killummod, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Croghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Croghan electoral division: 416 people in 152 households; 96% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunreagh, Carrowmore, Croghan, Kilcolagh, Knocknafushoga, Knockroe, Lisdaly, Ratallen

Placenames

Killappoge 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.