Liberty
Liberty is a townland in the civil parish of Moore, barony of Moycarn, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 104.9 ha
- 259 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 5,642 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liberty, from 89 m² to 152,837 m² (15.28 ha, 37.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Liberty 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 Jan 2022Refused
Permission to construct a four bedroom dwelling with detached garage at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2212
1 Dec 2021N/a
Permission to construct a four bedroom dwelling with garage. The application will also include an effluent treatment unit, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works and drainage at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21678
28 Aug 2020Conditional
to construct a single storey garage and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20331
2 Oct 2017Conditional
to erect a dwellinghouse, garage and construct a waste water treatment unit with soil polishing filter at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17404
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 Liberty.
Recorded monuments
- RO054-019 Castle - unclassified
Description
A castle in a ‘moss’ or bog in the area S of Derrymacky (Derrylagh?) is marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636, and all this area was owned by the Bishop of Meath in 1641 and the 1660s (Simington 1949, 62, Moycarn). A small structure (dims c. 5m x c. 5m) is marked on the 1837 and 1924-5 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in Gothic lettering as ‘Liberty Castle’ on both. Situated on a level landscape. The featureless E wall (L 4m) and adjacent part of the N wall (L 2m) survive (T 1m; max. H c. 4.5m) of a rectangular structure (ext. dims 8.6m E-W; 6.5m N-S), traces of whose W and S walls (H 0.35m) are visible beneath a rubble cairn. 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 Liberty.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Liberty, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Liberty.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Liberty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Liberty
- Area
- 1,048,787 m² (104.88 ha, 259.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycarn
- Electoral division
- Ballydangan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 784 people lived in 263 households in the Ballydangan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Camcloon, Derrylahan, Dolanstown Kilcashel, Dooghan, Thomastown Demesne, Toberiheen
- Placenames
- Liberty 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.