Killeglan

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killeglan, from 617 m² to 148,690 m² (14.87 ha, 36.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Killeglan 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.

• 17 Jul 2025Conditional

  Permission for proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, a suitable onsite treatment system with a polishing filter, and all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560352

• 31 Mar 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and install a waste water treatment unit with polishing filter at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17136

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 Killeglan.

Recorded monuments

• RO050-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 30m) defined by the slight remains of a grass-covered fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; D 0.3m) NNW-NNE, and as a curve in a field boundary ENE-S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO050-004 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35-40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a S-facing slope in an area with field walls. It is not visible at ground level in pasture adjacent to a farm complex but it was probably a cashel. The cashel (RO050-005----) is c. 130m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 28 June 2018

• RO050-005 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 35.6m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth c. 3m) WNW-N-SE, with facing-stones visible (original Wth 1.7m) NNE-ENE. It is bisected by a WNW-ESE field wall and does not survive visibly SW of this. There is no identifiable original entrance or internal features. The ringfort (RO051-004----) is c. 130m to the W. Archaeological testing (09E0530) c. 40m to the NE produced no related archaeological material (Wilkinson 2012). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 June, 2012

• RO050-006001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 24.2m ENE-WSW; 22.4m NNW-SSE) defined by a stone spread with facing-stones (original Wth 1.1-1.3m), visible especially SSW-W. There is no identifiable original entrance, but the perimeter is overlain by a field wall everywhere and field stones have been added at NNW and NE, on either side of a modern entrance at N. The foundations of a rectangular house (RO050-006003-) (ext. dims at least 5.2m E-W; 4.6m N-S), locally regarded as a children's burial ground (RO050-006002-), are against the inner edge of the perimeter at SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO050-006002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. The foundations of a rectangular house (RO050-006003-), locally regarded as a children's burial ground (Gannon 1972), are against the inner edge of the perimeter of cashel (RO050-006001-) at SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO050-006003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. The foundations of a rectangular structure (ext. dims at least 5.2m E-W; 4.6m N-S), locally regarded as a children's burial ground (RO050-006002-), are against the inner edge of the perimeter of cashel (RO050-006001-) at SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO050-007001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a rise towards the bottom of an E-facing slope in an undulating landscape. Oval grass-covered area (dims 34.6m NNE-SSW; 26.8m WNW-ESE) defined by a stone spread SSE-NNW, reduced to a stoney scarp elsewhere. A drystone wall is built on the perimeter SSE-W-ENE, forming the townland boundary with Lugboy N-NE, and extends outside the scarp elsewhere ENE-SSE, creating a rectangular enclosure (dims 34m NNE-SW; c. 34m WNW-ESE). There are small cairns and grave-markers in the interior, but there is no evidence of a church (RO050-007002-), which John O'Donovan writing in the 1830s suggested was known locally as Cill Fhiacláin or Cill Dhiacláin (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 24). However, a church at Killeglan was recorded in the 1650s (Simington 1949, 106). See the attached view taken from ENE Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO050-007002 Church
  Description

  On a rise towards the bottom of an E-facing slope in an undulating landscape. A church at Killeglan was recorded in the 1650s (Simington 1949, 106), which John O'Donovan writing in the 1830s suggested was located at the children's burial ground (RO050-007001-) and was known locally as Cill Fhiacláin or Cill Dhiacláin (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 24). However, there is no visible evidence of a church structure. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO050-008001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  This was probably a Keogh castle. Shane McKeogh was a tenant of the earl of Clanrickard at Killeglan in 1617 (Moore, 1978, 60). A castle at Killeglin is marked downstream from the watermill (RO050-033----) on the Strafford map of c. 1636 (Simington 1949, Athlone (146)). Situated at the E end of a low WNW-ESE ridge in a low-lying landscape c. 80m W of the NE-SW Killeglan River above the point where the stream turns W. Two fragments of wall (T 0.6m; max. H 4m) are on the N and E sides of a rectangular structure (dims at least 8.5m NNE-SSW; at least 3m WNW-ESE) with the embrasure of a window on the E wall. The castle is just outside the S end of the W wall of a bawn (RO050-008002-), which is a grass-covered area (dims c. 30m WNW-ESE; 24m NNE-SSW) defined by sections of masonry wall at the N (L 6m; H 0.3m) and W sides while the E and S sides formed by steep natural scarps. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 13 November, 2015

• RO050-008002 Bawn
  Description

  Situated at the E end of a low WNW-ESE ridge in a low-lying landscape c. 80m W of the NE-SW Killeglan River above the point where the stream turns W. The castle (RO050-008001-) is just outside the S end of the W wall of a bawn, which is a grass-covered area (dims c. 30m WNW-ESE; 24m NNE-SSW) defined by sections of masonry wall at the N (L 6m; H 0.3m) and W sides while the E and S sides formed by steep natural scarps. 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 Killeglan.

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 Killeglan, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Killeglan

Area

2,019,181 m² (201.92 ha, 498.95 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmaconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Carrowreagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

554 people lived in 189 households in the Carrowreagh electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Breeole, Camlagh, Cloonkeen, Coolfree, Lugboy, Rockland

Placenames

Killeglan 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.