Lugboy
Townland in the civil parish of Elphin, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 104.3 ha
- 258 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 25,827 m² (2.58 ha, 6.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lugboy, from 1,033 m² to 179,151 m² (17.92 ha, 44.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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 Lugboy 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
22 Mar 2024Conditional
Permission to construct extension, extending kitchen area, to front of existing dwelling together with all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460137
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 Lugboy.
Recorded monuments
- RO023-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the broad crest of a low E-W ridge. Circular grass and scrub-covered platform (diam. 31.2m E-W; 28.6m N-S; H 0.5m at E to 1.5m at N) with slight traces of a bank (Wth of top 1.3-1.8m; int. H 0.2m) at E and W defined by a fosse (Wth of top 4.8-5.8m generally to 8m at N; Wth of base 3-4.2m; D 0.5-1.1m), and an overgrown outer bank (Wth 2.6-4.6m; H 0.4-0.6m) which does not survive at N. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO023-006----) is c. 160m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-006 Ringfort - rath
Description
Just off the crest of the NE-facing slope of a broad E-W ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 31.2m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 2.5-4.3m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.5m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8-1.1m) N-E. The bank is separated by a fosse (Wth of top 4-5m; Wth of base 2.5-3.4m; D 0.3-0.6m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.7-5.8m; H 0.2m at S to 1.1m at N) which has been quarried away at SE. Both banks are overgrown W-NNE and the original entrance is not identified. Rath (RO023-005----) is c. 160m to the W, and rath (RO023-007----) is c. 50m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle E-facing slope of a broad E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 28m N-S; 25.3m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.1-4.8m; int. H 0.2-0.6m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 3.2-4m; Wth of base 1.7-2.2m; D 0.2-0.4m) from an outer bank (Wth 2.6m; H 0.2m) which only survives W-NE. The outer bank is overlain by a NE-SW field wall at W and there is a NW-SE field wall outside the perimeter at S. The original entrance cannot be identified. Rath (RO023-006----) is c. 50m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-010 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle SE-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 27.7m NW-SE; 23.3m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank with some scrub (Wth 3.4-4.5m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 0.4-1.1m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m) at NE, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.5-5m; Wth of base 1.8-2.2m; D 0.2-0.4m) W-N-S. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO023-009----) is c. 200m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-012 Ringfort - rath
Description
In a broad saddle with higher ground c. 1km to the E, NW and SW. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some scrub (Wth 3.4-3.7m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.8-1m), and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.8m; Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.4m) SW-NNE. The original entrance is not identified, and the perimeter is quarried away ESE-SSE. 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 Lugboy.
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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lugboy.
- 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 Lugboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Lugboy
- Area
- 1,042,997 m² (104.3 ha, 257.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Elphin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Cregga, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cregga electoral division: 166 people in 59 households; 98% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clooncullaan, Cloonybrennan, Cregga, Killeen East, Lisduff, Tullycartron
- Placenames
- Lugboy 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.