Taghnarra
Taghnarra is a townland in the civil parish of Kilkeevin, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Teach nAradh.
- Area
- 263.4 ha
- 651 acres
- Land parcels
- 92
- registered freehold, median 13,313 m² (1.33 ha, 3.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Taghnarra, from 420 m² to 618,969 m² (61.9 ha, 152.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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 Taghnarra 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
19 Aug 2022Conditional
Retention Permission to: (a) retain existing dwelling house as constructed on site, (b) retain the demolition for previous existing dwelling house; Permission to (c) construct an extension to the rear of existing dwelling house subject to retention permission being granted for existing dwelling house; Retention Permission to: (d) retain vehicular entrance and boundary wall as constructed on site; Permission to: (e) upgrade the wastewater treatment system on site consisting of an effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22441
16 Feb 2022N/a
Permission to construct a single storey extension to the rear of dwelling house and upgrade wastewater treatment system comprising of a proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2281
16 Aug 2018Conditional
for the construction of a new detached dwelling house and domestic garage, together with effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18412
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 Area of Conservation: Carrowbehy/Caher Bog SAC 000597
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrowbehy/Caher Bog 000597
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Taghnarra.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Taghnarra.
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 Taghnarra, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Taghnarra.
- 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 Taghnarra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Taghnarra · Teach nAradh
- Area
- 2,633,895 m² (263.39 ha, 650.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkeevin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Cloonfower, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 346 people lived in 137 households in the Cloonfower electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonalough, Clooncan, Cloonelt, Cloonfower, Cloontarsna, Kilmore, Taghnoose
- Placenames
- Taghnarra 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.