Tawnagh

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnagh, from 166 m² to 245,030 m² (24.5 ha, 60.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Tawnagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Tawnagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ballynamona Bog and Corkip Lough SAC 002339
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Feacle Turlough 001634

Recorded monuments

• RO048-129 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m), and situated on a S-facing slope in an area with field walls. It is not visible at ground level in pasture but was probably a cashel. The cashel (RO048-128----) is c. 130m to the NW and cashel (RO048-130----) is c. 180m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 28 June 2018

• RO048-130 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope. Subcircular overgrown area (dims 55m NNE-SSW; 47.7m WNW-ESE) defined by an overgrown stone spread (at S: Wth 5.5m; int. H 1.7m; ext. H 1.2m) with external facing-stones intermittently visible, especially NNE-SE. There is no identifiable original entrance, but the perimeter is overlain by a field wall NW-E-SE and there are some clearance cairns in the interior. Rath (RO048-187----) is c. 180m to the NE, cashel (RO048-131----) is c. 60m to the ESE, and ringfort (RO048-129----) is c. 180m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-131 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Visible as a circular enclousre on aerial photographs (GSIAP M 595-6), and situated on a slight rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (int. dims. c. 29m NNW-SSE; 27.7m ENE-WSW) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.5-5.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.2-1.3m) with intermittently visible facing stones. There is no visible entrance but a relict field wall traverses the interior diagonally NE-SW. The perimeter is incorporated into a field wall NNW-NE and obscured by field stones S-WSW. Cashel (RO048-130----) is c. 60m to the WNW and rath (RO048-187----) is c. 180m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-132 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m), and situated on the crest of a low NW-SE ridge in an area with field walls. It is not visible at ground level in pasture but was probably a cashel. The possible cashel (RO048-133----) is c. 150m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-133 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m), and situated on an undulating landscape with field walls. It is not visible at ground level in pasture but it was probably a cashel. The cashel (RO048-132----) is c. 150m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-134 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 25m E-W; c. 20m N-S) cut by field walls at W and S, and situated on an undulating landscape. An arc of the perimeter consisting of a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 5m; H 0.6m) with intermittently visible facing-stones (original Wth of wall 1.5m), but largely obscured by field stones, survives N-E. There is an entrance (Wth 1.5m), possibly modern, at ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-135 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 50m NE-SW; c. 35m NW-SE) slightly truncated by a NE-SW field bank at SE. Situated on an undulating landscape with field walls, it is not visible at ground level in pasture but was probably a cashel. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 28 June 2018

• RO048-136 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked as a slight D-shaped feature (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 25m N-S) open to the N on the 1837 ed. and as an oval enclosure (ext. dims c. 60m E-W; c. 40m N-S) on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on an undulating landscape. This is a D-shaped overgrown area (dims 26.6m NNE-SSW; c. 20m WNW-SSE) defined by a scarp (H 1.35m) S-SW and an earth and stone spread (Wth 5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m) with facing-stones (original Wth 1.5m) SW-NNE. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The monument is bisected by a N-S field wall and townland boundary, and does not survive E of this in Carrowkeeran. An E-W field wall overlies the interior in Tawnagh with the perimeter surviving best S of this. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-137 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m), and situated on an undulating landscape. This is a D-shaped overgrown area (dims 30.5m NW-SE; c. 15m NE-SW) defined by the base of a stone wall or bank with facing-stones (Wth 1.6m) which survives NW-E-SE. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The monument is bisected by a NW-SE field bank and does not survive above ground SW of this feature. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-187 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 30m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 2.75-3m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.05-0.3m) SSW-N-ENE with some evidence of facing-stones and a few bushes. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, but there are old quarry pits and upcast in the interior. Cashels (RO048-130----; RO048-131----) are c. 180m to the SW and SSW respectively. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-011 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On the crest of a low N-S ridge in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered mound which has been distorted by quarrying (diam. of base c. 5m; H 0.2-0.4m) separated by a berm or fosse (Wth 0.7-1.4m) from an outer earthen bank (Wth 5.9-6.2m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.6-0.7m). The monument slopes down to the SW (max. ext. diam.18.7m NNE-SSW) and a trig. station is built on the outer bank at NE. 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 Tawnagh.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tawnagh

Area

2,251,177 m² (225.12 ha, 556.28 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmaconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Castlesampson, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlesampson electoral division: 408 people in 138 households; 94% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cam, Carrowkeeran, Cornageeha, Feacle, Kilkenny, Pollalaher

Placenames

Tawnagh 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.