Mountpleasant
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 102.9 ha
- 254 acres
- Land parcels
- 81
- registered freehold, median 3,154 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountpleasant, from 14 m² to 91,124 m² (9.11 ha, 22.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mountpleasant 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
9 Feb 2026Conditional
Permission to construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage and carport, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660046
1 Feb 2025Conditional
Permission to (i) demolish existing rear annex and (ii) to construct new side extensions and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560031
8 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission to: 1. demolish existing agricultural shed and construct new agricultural shed in its place; 2. extend existing shed and 3. create new agricultural entrance together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460526
25 Oct 2024N/a
Permission to: 1. Demolish existing agricultural shed, and construct new agricultural shed in its place; 2. Extend existing shed, and 3. Create new agricultural entrance together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460508
21 Oct 2024N/a
Planning permission to: 1. Demolish existing agricultural shed and construct new agricultural shed in its place; 2. Extend existing shed, and 3. Create new agricultural entrance together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460500
24 Feb 2021Conditional
for (i) a 46.23m2 garage, (ii) a 15.44m2 turf shed and (iii) a 14.5m2 storage container and all associated site works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 21107
26 Jan 2021N/a
for retention of (i) a 46.23m2 garage, (ii) a 15.44m2 turf shed and (iii) a 14.5m2 storage container and all associated site works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2141
24 Aug 2018Conditional
Planning permission to construct dwelling house and domestic garage with treatment system and percolation area and carry out all ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18427
8 Jun 2018Conditional
to construct two storey dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, associated site development works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18279
9 Jun 2017Conditional
to demolish existing shed and to construct a slatted shed, straw bedded shed, and manure pit together with all associated site works and new entrance onto public road at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17259
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 Mountpleasant.
Recorded monuments
- RO029-090 Monumental structure
Description
Marked only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as 'Monument'. It is situated on a broad, low hill in the grounds of Mount Pleasant House, which was c. 140m to the SW. There is no other information, and no feature is visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO029-145 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 58.7m E-W; 58.2m N-S) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 5.4-6m; Wth of base 2.5-3.5m; int. D 0.4-0.6m; ext. D 0.3-0.8m) WNW-E-SW, with slight traces of an inner bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.6m) S-SW which is incorporated into a field bank SW-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance. It is truncated by a NNW-SSE field bank towards the perimeter at SW. 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 Mountpleasant.
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 5 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountpleasant.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mountpleasant with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Mountpleasant
- Area
- 1,028,583 m² (102.86 ha, 254.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Cloonfinlough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloonfinlough electoral division: 176 people in 77 households; 92% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintemple, Cappagh, Cloonconny, Cloonearagh, Curry, Oakfield
- Placenames
- Mountpleasant 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.