Skeavally

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skeavally, from 106 m² to 174,979 m² (17.5 ha, 43.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Skeavally 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.

• 18 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct an extension to an existing dwellinghouse, waste water treatment system & associated siteworks at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560177

• 24 Jan 2022Conditional

  Permission to construct a 30-metre-high multi-user lattice tower telecommunications structure with headframe, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fence compound with associated ground equipment and associated site works including new access track at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2227

• 25 May 2021Conditional

  Permission for the erection of a temporary meteorological mast - the development will consist of : The erection of a guy-wired lattice meteorological mast of up to 100 metres in height; Associated works, services and foundations area, planning permission is for a period of 2 years (Application made for Permission for the erection of a temporary meteorological mast - the development will consist of : The erection of a guy-wired lattice meteorological mast of up to 100 metres in height; Associated works, services and foundations area, planning permission is sought for a period of 5 years) at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21274

• 30 Apr 2021N/a

  for the erection of a temporary meteorological mast, the development will consist of : The erection of a guy-wired lattice meteorological mast of up to 100 metres in height, associated works, services and foundations area at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21222

• 8 Oct 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system & associated siteworks at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20415

• 3 Jul 2020Conditional

  to retain and complete (a) an extended site boundary and (b) the relocation of a site entrance, at the site at an existing dwelling house previously granted planning permission, Ref PD/16/41 at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20245

• 26 Feb 2020N/a

  to extend boundary of site for an existing dwelling house previously granted planning permission Ref PD/16/41 and to relocate site entrance at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2071

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 the townland of Skeavally.

Recorded monuments

• RO048-097003 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Marked as a laneway (L c. 900m) on the 1837 ed. Of the OS 6-inch map, and rising from the S up a S-facing slope to a point where the wayside cross (RO048-117----) is situated just to its W and the road begins to descend to the N. From the S to where the cross is situated the road is a country lane (Wth 2m) with grass margins (Wth 1.6m) bordered by drystone walls. N of the cross it is a grass-covered area (Wth 9m; L c. 100m) bordered by a drystone wall and townland boundary with Skeavally at E and the grass-covered remnants of a wall (Wth 0.5m; H 0.5m) at W. It ends abruptly at the E-W townland boundary and drystone wall with Cuilleenoolagh (RO048-098----) at N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-117001 Cross - Wayside cross
  Description

  On a rise at the W side of S-N road (RO048-097003-) which is at the summit of a slight col where the road begins to descend to the N. Portion of the shaft (dims 0.26m x 0.26m; H 0.44m) and head of a Latin cross (H 0.74m; Span 0.62m; max. T 0.14m) in limestone together with a stone surround (dims 2.65m x 2.65m). The cross-head has an inscription in false relief which is now illegible but which is thought to commemorate Thady Keogh who died in 1734 (Moore 1978, 64; Siggins 1988, 58). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-119001 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Located on a SE-facing slope and it consists of a complex of two stone houses and at least two other structures, dating from the 17th century. Colla Mac Donogh McKeogh (d. 1620) of Ardmullan held land at Skeavally (Moore 1978, 63) but he is thought to have purchased Skeavally from the McKeoghs of Cloonbigney (RO050-019001-) for his son Donagh, who may have built the house (RO048-119001-). Donagh Mac Colla of Skevally owned only 162 acres in Taghmaconnell parish in 1641, which was owned by Hugh Keogh in the 1660s, but Skeavally is not listed and no structures there are marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636 (Simington 1949, Athlone (138)). Others with the name Keogh owned over 1800 acres in the parish in 1641, but only Hugh Keogh is listed among the landowners in the 1660s (idem. 102-06). Donagh's son Teige, a Dominican friar, was chaplain to the Earl of Clanrickard from 1648 and became the Catholic bishop of Clonfert (1678-1687). Teige lived at this house as bishop and is said to have built a school or seminary at Skeavally (Egan 1960, 99-100; Moore 2000, 94-5), which may be the house (RO048-119005-). A house (RO048-119001-) of at least two storeys and attic (ext. dims 20m NNE-SSW; 7.5m WNW-ESE; max. surviving H 5.5m) has four gun-loops in a ground floor room (int. dims 5.9m WNW-ESE; 5.6m NNE-SSW) at the N end created by an inserted wall, but only one window is visible in the other room on the ground floor and only one fireplace at the centre of the W wall is evident. A second house (RO048-119005-) is 2m to the N and off-set slightly to the E. This is a rectangular structure (int. dims 23.55m NNE-SSW; 5.9m WNW-ESE; max. surviving H 3.5m) of one storey and attic and is divided into three rooms with corner fireplaces in the two N rooms. There are no other features at the ground floor apart from three cupboards in the N gable, a destroyed window at the S end of the W wall, and a possible blocked doorway in the S gable. There is a return (int. dims 4.7m E-W; 4.45m N-S) at the N end of the E wall. A smaller building (RO048-119007-) (int. dims 10.5m x 4m) survives c. 20m to the W as foundations, and a headstone (RO048-119009-) with an illegible inscription but probably 18th century in date is c. 20m the E. There was a sweat house or kiln (RO048-119004-) visible as a stone-lined pit (diam. 1.6m) with an opening at S set into the slope W of the houses. There was an earthwork which may have been a gun-platform (RO048-119008-) c. 50m W of house (RO048-119001-). This was a rectangular platform (dims 19m NE-SW; 14m NW-SE; H c. 2m) with stone facing on all sides except the NW where there is a fosse. Its NW and SE edges were overlain by stone walls. The last two have been removed since 1995. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-119003 Enclosure
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope. Grass-covered field walls create small rectangular enclosures (int. dims c. 10m x c. 10m) immediately W of the houses (RO048-119001-; RO048-119005-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-119004 Sweathouse
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope and part of the fortified house complex (RO048-119001-). A stone-lined pit (diam. 1.6m) with an opening at S is set into the slope W of the houses (RO048-119001-; RO048-119005-). It has been removed since 1995. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-119005 House - 17th century
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope, 2m N of house (RO048-119001-) and off-set slightly to the E. This is a rectangular structure (int. dims 23.55m NNE-SSW; 5.9m WNW-ESE; max. surviving H 3.5m) of one storey and attic and is divided into three rooms with corner fireplaces in the two N rooms. There are no other features at the ground floor apart from three cupboards in the N gable, a destroyed window at the S end of the W wall, and a possible blocked doorway in the S gable. There is a return (int. dims 4.7m E-W; 4.45m N-S) at the N end of the E wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 10 November 2015

• RO048-119007 Building
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope, and c. 20m W of fortified house (RO048-119001-). Rectangular structure (int. dims 10.5m NNE-SSW; 3.8m WNW-ESE) reduced to the foundations and divided into two rooms. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-119008 Earthwork
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope, c. 80m WNW of fortified house (RO048-119001-) and overlooking it. It is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: BDO 35, 36) from the 1970s. This is a rectangular platform (dims of top 19m NE-SW; 14m NW-SE; H c. 2m) with stone facing on all sides except the NW where there is a fosse. Its NW and SE edges were overlain by stone banks. It may have been a gun-platform, but it has been removed since 1995. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-119009 Headstone
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope, c. 20m E of houses (RO048-119001-; RO048-119005-). Rectangular limestone slab (dims. 1.75m x 0.8m; T 0.2m) with an illegible inscription and a raised IHS motif. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-120 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped feature (ext. dims c. 50m N-S; c. 30m E-W) cut by a N-S field wall and townland boundary, but only indicated E of this in Skeavally. Situated on the crest of a NNE-SSW ridge in an area with field walls, it is not visible at ground level in pasture but was probably a cashel. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-121 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 60m), and situated on a gentle SE-facing slope in an area with field walls. It is not visible at ground level in pasture but it was probably a cashel. 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 Skeavally.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Skeavally.

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

Name

Skeavally

Area

1,691,076 m² (169.11 ha, 417.87 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmaconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Taghmaconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Taghmaconnell electoral division: 315 people in 106 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boleyduff, Cloonacaltry, Cuilleenoolagh, Feacle, Milltown, Onagh, Tobermacloughlin

Placenames

Skeavally 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.