Suckfield
Suckfield is a townland in the civil parish of Creagh, barony of Moycarn, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 52 ha
- 129 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 2,164 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential (Existing)
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Suckfield, from 377 m² to 237,863 m² (23.79 ha, 58.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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
- R2Residential (Existing) (Existing residential)
Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space / Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Dec 2025N/a
Planning permission to construct: 1) A new dormer extension to rear of existing house, 2) To demolish existing hayshed to rear of house and 3) Minor alterations and refurbishment to existing house and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560565
12 May 2022Conditional
Permission to demolish existing old style semi derelict dwelling and stores to rear, construct replacement part single storey and part two storey dwelling, domestic garage, connect to existing water and sewer services on site, associated site development works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22223
1 Oct 2020Refused
to retain a boundary screen fence to dwelling house at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20395
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
- Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
- Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Suckfield.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Suckfield.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Suckfield, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1379 (ZIP).
- 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 Suckfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Suckfield
- Area
- 520,285 m² (52.03 ha, 128.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Creagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycarn
- Electoral division
- Creagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,005 people lived in 370 households in the Creagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardcarn, Beagh (Brabazon), Kilgarve (Co. Galway), Kilgarve, Pollboy (Co. Galway), Portnick (Co. Galway), Tulrush
- Placenames
- Suckfield 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.