Shannon View, Rooskey

Area

6,145 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Ballyleague

Planning applications on this parcel

• 7 Oct 2025Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a residential development consisting of 14 no. dwelling units as follows (a) 1 no. single storey 2 bed detached dwelling (b) 1 no. single storey 2 bed semi-detached dwelling (c) 9 no. two storey 3 bed terrace units (d) 3 no. two storey 3 bed semi-detached units (e) the construction of a pumping station (f) along with all associated site works including footpaths, access road, car parking, boundary treatments, public lighting, ducting for utilities, connections to existing foul and surface water drainage and all other ancillary site works at

  Permission, 14 homes · Roscommon County Council, 2560480

• 14 Sept 2025N/a

  Permission for the construction of a residential development consisting of 14no. dwelling units as follows (a) 1 no. single storey 2 bed detached dwelling (b) 1 no. single storey 2 bed semi-detached dwelling (c) 9no. two storey 3 bed terrace units (d) 3no. two storey 3 bed semi-detached units (e) the construction of a pumping station (f) along with all associated site works including footpaths, access road, car parking, boundary treatments, public lighting, ducting for utilities, connections to existing foul and surface water drainage and all other ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560440

• 1 Sept 2023Conditional

  Permission for seasonal erection of lighting poles to facilitate Christmas Lighting etc. and all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360089

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• RO037-004 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a slight rise on the flood-plain of the River Shannon, c. 150m from the river at Lanesborough where there was a bridge (RO037-005----) from 1140 AD. Walter de Lacy started to build a castle at Ath Liagh in 1220, and in 1227 a castle was completed by Geoffry Mares, but this was probably an earth and timber castle and may have been in Co. Longford (LF017-003002-). This tower house, which was known as Caisleán Maol, has few historical references, although the abbot of Cloontuskert (RO037-001001-) possessed the castle of Lanesborough, then called Boalalege (Ballyleague), and six cabins (RO037-008----) in 1571 (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 49), which remain unlocated. By 1596 the castle had been lost by Irriell O'Farrel to Irish rebels (Cronin 1980, 117). Ballyleague castle is depicted and named on the Down Survey barony map (1655-6) of Rathcline, Co. Longford. Rectangular structure (int. dims. 8.8m N-S; 5.6m E-W) with largely robbed quoins surviving to the second floor under the N-S vault. The destroyed entrance is at the S end of the E wall which led through a projecting and now destroyed tower which probably also contained the stairs, into the ground floor. There is a destroyed fireplace and two horizontal gun-loops in the the E wall with two gun-loops and a large hole in the W wall. The N wall has a large destroyed window and the S has a gun-loop and a large window. The first floor has a fireplace and two gun-loops in the E wall, and two fine round-headed lights in the S wall. The W and N walls have two destroyed windows and a single light. The second storey has a fireplace in the E wall and robbed windows in the other walls. See the attached general view from the S (001) and a window at the first floor in the S wall (002). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3rd June, 2011.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

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