Tawnytaskin
Townland in the civil parish of Boyle, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon; in Irish Tamhnaigh an tSeascainn
- Area
- 100.3 ha
- 248 acres
- Land parcels
- 160
- registered freehold, median 1,039 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- Zone 1
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
160 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnytaskin, from 12 m² to 56,390 m² (5.64 ha, 13.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Zone 1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 81 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P6Zone 2 (Other primary sector uses)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 49 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P6Zone 1A (Other primary sector uses)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 39 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
21 Dec 2020Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling-house with septic tank and percolation area, together with all ancillary site works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20569
23 Nov 2020N/a
PART 8 - Provision of Doon Shore Outdoor Amenity Enhancement Scheme, to include: 1. Creation of defined parking spaces to accommodate cars, trailers and users with disability, and surface repairs to existing trafficked areas 2. Extension of the existing green space to provide a separation between vehicular traffic and pedestrains 3. Provision of a coloured pedestrian footway along the existing shoreline concrete structure 4. All other associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20495
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drum Bridge (Lough Key) 001631
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tawnytaskin Wood (Lough Key) 001651
Recorded monuments
- RO006-027 Road - road/trackway
Description
Visible on aerial photographs (OS 1 3320-1), and situated on level ground on the N bank of the W-E Boyle River, c. 750m from where it enters Lough Key. A raised grass-covered roadway (Wth 4.5-6m; H 0.2-0.4m) flanked by silted drains runs N from Drum Bridge towards the foothills of the Curlew Mountains (L c. 300m) where it might have connected with the road over the hills (RO006-001----), the nearest portion of which is c. 2.5 km to the NW. It might also have connected with the road (RO006-026004-) c. 400m to the SW and the road (RO006-077002-), c. 1.5 km to the S. 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 Tawnytaskin.
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Tawnytaskin.
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tawnytaskin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Tawnytaskin · Tamhnaigh an tSeascainn
- Area
- 1,003,075 m² (100.31 ha, 247.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Boyle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Boyle Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Boyle Rural electoral division: 1,775 people in 640 households; 74% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Deerpark, Doon, Sheegorey, Warren or Drum
- Placenames
- Tawnytaskin 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.