Lugnashammer
Townland in the civil parish of Killukin (Boyle Ra), barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 70.2 ha
- 173 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 5,367 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lugnashammer, from 812 m² to 228,058 m² (22.81 ha, 56.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Lugnashammer 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
27 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission to erect a dwelling house, to construct a wastewater treatment system and to widen existing access onto public road, together with all necessary ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23411
31 Aug 2018Conditional
Permission for development consisting of the provision of a single storey detached garage to the eastern side elevation of the existing dwelling house, including all ancillary works, as per documents lodged to Roscommon County Council, at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18439
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 Lugnashammer.
Recorded monuments
- RO010-043 Barrow - embanked barrow
Description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the crest of a low, steep-sided knoll. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 3.3m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m at S to 4m at W; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 0.4-0.9m). There is no visible entrance, and the centre is obscured by field stones (ext. dims 8.4m E-W; 6.7m N-S). 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 Lugnashammer.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Lugnashammer.
- 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 Lugnashammer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Lugnashammer
- Area
- 701,725 m² (70.17 ha, 173.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killukin (Boyle Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Croghan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Croghan electoral division: 416 people in 152 households; 96% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Lugnashammer 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.