Mountain Upper

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountain Upper, from 181 m² to 386,253 m² (38.63 ha, 95.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Mountain Upper 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.

• 21 Jan 2026Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and onsite wastewater treatment system with all ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660027

• 23 Dec 2025N/a

  Permission for the change of house type and position of the house on site, previously granted under Planning Ref. PD/24/60024, on revised site boundaries at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660010

• 19 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of the construction of a four bedroom dwelling house, carport, domestic garage and waste water treatment system as per drawings and documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460024

• 20 Dec 2023N/a

  Permission for development which consists of the construction of a four bedroom dwelling house, carport, domestic garage and waste water treatment system as per drawings and documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360282

• 24 Sept 2021Conditional

  for retention of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21540

• 1 Feb 2021Conditional

  Permission for the development of a proposed garage / store and associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2152

• 20 Jan 2021N/a

  for development of a proposed garage / store and associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2122

• 7 Jun 2018Conditional

  for the construction of proposed floating jetty to provide harbour for boats with access gangway, proposed wheelchair accessible fishing stand with access gangway, proposed rock breakwater, construction of proposed playground, demolition of existing vehicular entrance and construction of proposed revised, widened vehicular entrance, construction of revised car park layout with traffic calming island and speed bumps, proposed store and associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18277

• 25 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house and garage with connection to the public sewer together with all its associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17330

• 10 Jul 2017N/a

  To construct a new dwelling house with connection to the public sewer together with all its associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17310

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough O'Flynn 001645

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountain Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Mountain Upper.

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

Name

Mountain Upper · An Sliabh Uachtarach

Area

1,640,684 m² (164.07 ha, 405.42 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

Ballinloughquarter, Derryharraun East, Derryharraun West, Falledeen, Mountain Lower, Stonepark, Willsborough

Placenames

Mountain Upper 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.