Kilnagralta
Townland in the civil parish of Tisrara, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 82.5 ha
- 204 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 37,164 m² (3.72 ha, 9.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilnagralta, from 2,393 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 276,750 m² (27.67 ha, 68.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Kilnagralta 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
12 Aug 2026N/a
Permission for the extension and refurbishment of an existing dwelling, including site services and all associated ancillary works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660413
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lisduff Turlough SAC 000609
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lisduff Turlough 000609
Recorded monuments
- RO041-073 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a slight SW-facing slope. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 30.9m E-W; 28.8m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 4-6.8m; int. H 0.15-0.3m; ext. H 0.3-1.2m) which is incorporated into a field bank at S, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 9.3m; Wth of base 5.5m; ext. D 0.25m) only at S, although this may be a quarry. There is no identifiable original entrance and the perimeter has been damaged by quarrying at SSW. 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 Kilnagralta.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1309 (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 Kilnagralta with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Kilnagralta
- Area
- 825,139 m² (82.51 ha, 203.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tisrara, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Lismaha, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lismaha electoral division: 365 people in 143 households; 89% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Araghty, Coollusty, Keenagh (Clanrickard), Keenagh (Donnellan West), Lisduff, Lisgillalea, Lismaha
- Placenames
- Kilnagralta 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.