Luggs
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltrustan, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 26.3 ha
- 65 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 29,542 m² (2.95 ha, 7.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Luggs, from 2,447 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 77,587 m² (7.76 ha, 19.17 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 Luggs 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
15 Jan 2019Conditional
to construct a 6 bay open slatted cubicle shed with underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1910
21 Dec 2018N/a
Construct a 6 bay open slatted cubicle shed with underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works at Kiltrustan, Strokestown, Co. Roscommon.
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18641
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 Luggs.
Recorded monuments
- RO023-083 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle E-facing slope at the bottom of a steep NE-facing slope. Circular scrub and rush-covered area (diam. 36.2m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.6-4.3m; int. H 0.2-1m; ext. H 1.1-1.6m), which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.3m) NE-SSE, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4-5.2m; Wth of base 2.1-2.8m; D 1.1-1.7m), which is much reduced (D 0.5m) NE-SSE. There is an entrance (Wth 2m) at S and a widened entrance (Wth 3m) at N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-084 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle E-facing slope at the bottom of a severe NE-facing slope of Mullaghcreigha Hill. Described in 1970 as a circular area defined by a slight bank and outer fosse (Wth c. 4m; int. D c. 1.8m; ext. D c. 0.9m) (SMR file). It is now visible as a circular grass-covered area (diam. 43m E-W; 42m N-S) defined by slight traces of a fosse (Wth 3m; max. D 0.3m) S-W-NNE and a band of rushes (Wth c. 3m) elsewhere. 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 Luggs.
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Luggs.
- 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 Luggs with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Luggs
- Area
- 262,577 m² (26.26 ha, 64.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltrustan, 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
- Kiltrustan, Lisheen, Moyglass
- Placenames
- Luggs 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.