Mountallen
Mountallen is a townland in the civil parish of Kilronan, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Moin Aillionn.
- Area
- 56.4 ha
- 139 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 12,105 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountallen, from 1,401 m² to 275,363 m² (27.54 ha, 68.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mountallen 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
No planning application touches the townland of Mountallen 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.
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 Mountallen.
Recorded monuments
- RO002-027 Sweathouse
Description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated towards the top of the W-facing slope of a low ridge with a house just to the E. Circular drystone-built chamber (int. diam. 1.6m; H 0.4m) with a collapsed roof and the lintelled entrance (Wth c. 0.4m; H 0.4m) is at NE. It is built in an earthen mound (dims. 3.5m N-S; 2.5m E-W; H 0.5m). 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 Mountallen.
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 20 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 moderately low, low, low (inferred). Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountallen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mountallen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Mountallen · Moin Aillionn
- Area
- 564,340 m² (56.43 ha, 139.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilronan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Aghafin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 142 people lived in 52 households in the Aghafin electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghafin, Corgorman, Derrynadooey, Derrynagallion, Lislea, Srabragan
- Placenames
- Mountallen 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.