Mount Talbot

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mount Talbot, from 55 m² to 636,940 m² (63.69 ha, 157.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Mount Talbot 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.

• 27 Sept 2022Conditional

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house, a new domestic garage, treatment plant and polishing filter and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22525

• 11 Jul 2022Conditional

  1. Permission to construct extension to side (Southeast) elevation of existing dwelling house on revised site. 2. Retention Permission to retain (i) revised site boundaries and (ii) existing rear extension and all associated site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22358

• 25 Nov 2021Refused

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house, a new domestic garage, treatment plant and polishing filter and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21666

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
• Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222

Recorded monuments

• RO044-003 Church
  Description

  Marked as a ruin on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and described in gothic lettering as a church on both. It is situated on a gentle NW-facing slope within the grounds of Mount Talbot House and c. 130m from a NE-SW section of the river Suck. It may have been a Chapel-of-Ease to the parish church of Tisrara (RO044-043001-). The church is a rectangular grass-covered area (ext. dims 15.5m NW-SE; 11.7m NE-SW) defined by a wide grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.5-4.2m; H 0.3-0.7m) with no diagnostic features visible. There is no evidence of an enclosure or of burial. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 19 October 2015

• RO044-005 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 15m) only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a gentle W-facing slope c. 450m from the River Suck to the NW and SW and planted with deciduous trees within the demesne of Mount Talbot. Oval mound (dims. 19.5m E-W; 14m N-S; H 3.2-3.6m) with an oval summit (dims. 4.5m E-W; 1.5m N-S). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• , 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1860, now disused. Comprising cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, fluted upper section with spout, head and fluted domed cap with finial. Cow tail style handle. Pump bounded on three sides by curving stone wall and set opposite main junction into Mount Talbot.

• Mount Talbot House, country house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached former Tudor Revival country house, built c.1750, now in ruins. Set within its own estate with a range of derelict stone outbuildings to south-east, including stables with integral carriage arches and Serliana windows to rear. Walled garden to north-east of house with red brick south-facing wall. Site bounded to road by random coursed stone wall with soldier coping. Various entrances into estate. Main entrance to north-east of house. Classical arch with rusticated piers, smaller arches for pedestrians.

• Mount Talbot Church (Tisrara), church/chapel, 1760–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached former Church of Ireland church, built 1766, now derelict. Comprising three-bay nave and three-stage tower to west with balustrade parapet. Roughcast-rendered walls with dressed quoins and string courses to tower. Remaining cast-iron rainwater goods. Pointed-arched windows and Diocletian windows to third stage of tower. Round-arched entrance with block-and-start surround. Block-and-start surround to statue niche in tower. Various upright and recumbent grave markers around church, including a mausoleum. Crypt to east of church. Site bounded by random coursed wall with ashlar gate piers and wrought-iron gates.

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

At the centre of the townland of Mount Talbot, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1274 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Mount Talbot with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Mount Talbot · Mun Talbóid

Area

2,684,615 m² (268.46 ha, 663.38 acres)

Civil parish

Tisrara, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Lismaha, the unit of the census

Census 2022

365 people lived in 143 households in the Lismaha electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonca, Cloondarah, Cloonlaughnan, Cloonruff (Co. Galway), Garreer (Co. Galway), Lisgillalea, Lismaha, Srahaunnagort or Thornfield (Co. Galway)

Placenames

Mount Talbot 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.