Magheraboy

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheraboy, from 31 m² to 125,620 m² (12.56 ha, 31.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Magheraboy 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Magheraboy in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Magheraboy.

Recorded monuments

• RO008-022 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 15m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (MA 74), and situated on a gentle S-facing slope. The site is now occupied by an industrial premises. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008-024 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a low-lying level landscape with a NW-SE stream c. 20m to the NE. Subcircular grass-covered platform (dims 15.5m N-S; 11.8m E-W; H 0.4-0.5m) defined by a fosse (at S: Wth of top 4.7m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.6m; at E: Wth of top 7.4m; Wth of base 5.4m; D 0.6m) and outer bank (Wth 3.8-5.2m; ext. H 0.2-0.4m). The platform and bank are quarried at SE, while the bank has been augmented at N (Wth 7.4m) and removed (L 12m) by a NE-SW farm track at NW (max. ext. dims 34.2m N-S; 30.3m E-W). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 23/1956).

• RO008-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Visible as a circular feature (diam. c. 30m) on aerial photographs (ACAP: V221/133-4), and situated on a low-lying level landscape. It survives as a circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. c. 30m) but its defining features are not discernible on the ground in dense rushes. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of amended upload: 27 April 2018

• RO008-040 Earthwork
  Description

  On low-lying ground within a meander of the W-E Lung River. A curvilinear feature is visible on an aerial photograph (GSIAP: M, 677-6) enclosing a subrectangular area (dims c. 40m NE-SW; c. 20m NE-SW) backing onto the river at S. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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 Magheraboy.

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).

Radon

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Magheraboy.

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.

No address of the register names Magheraboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Magheraboy

Area

716,759 m² (71.68 ha, 177.12 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolman, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Edmondstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Edmondstown electoral division: 458 people in 179 households; 92% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyoughter, Banada, Kilcolman, Toobrackan

Placenames

Magheraboy 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.