Meelickroe

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meelickroe, from 445 m² to 63,280 m² (6.33 ha, 15.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Meelickroe 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.

• 14 Jul 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system along with associated siteworks at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560341

• 4 Apr 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a new forest road entrance and associated site works for the purposes of harvesting a plantation at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18154

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Lough Namucka Bog NHA 000220

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meelickroe.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meelickroe.

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

About 1 in 5 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

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Meelickroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Meelickroe · Míleac Rua

Area

1,013,080 m² (101.31 ha, 250.34 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Ballinlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinlough electoral division: 1,138 people in 465 households; 78% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooncalgy More, Derryvung, Foxborough, Island East (Co. Galway), Island West (Co. Galway), Kilbeg (Co. Galway)

Placenames

Meelickroe 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.