Tintagh
Townland in the civil parish of Boyle, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 197.9 ha
- 489 acres
- Land parcels
- 98
- registered freehold, median 5,829 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres)
- Zoning
- P6
- Zone 2
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
98 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tintagh, from 2 m² to 116,819 m² (11.68 ha, 28.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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
- P6Zone 2 (Other primary sector uses)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 44 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 Aug 2019Refused
Construction of Bungalow Type Dwelling House, detached Garage, Entrance, Boundary Fence/Wall, Wastewater Treatment System With Percolation Area And Ancillary Site Works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19422
4 Feb 2019Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of a two-storey extension to the rear of an existing dwelling which will contain a domestic garage, change of use of attached garage to residential use, refurbishment of an existing dwelling to include elevational changes and all ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1941
21 Jan 2019N/a
The development will consist of the construction of a two-storey extension, change of use of attached garage and refurbishment of existing dwelling including elevational changes at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1914
8 Mar 2017Conditional
permission for 1) Demolish existing agricultural shed. 2) Remove Leylandi trees one side of the site entrance avenue and replace with semi mature native trees 3) remove existing portion of road side masonry boundary wall and replace with post and rail fence and continue fence to one side of entrance avenue along with associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1794
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tintagh.
Recorded monuments
- RO003-023 Ringfort - rath
Description
In a slight E-W valley. Circular scrub-covered area (diam. 27m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1m), with a drystone field wall built on the perimeter NE-SSE. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO003-024001 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On top of a low drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered area with some bushes (int. dims. 29m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 2-3.5m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 0.2-1m), which has disappeared at W. There are no facing stones visible nor can an entrance be seen, but a rectangular house platform (RO003-024002-) (dims. 6m NE-SW; 2.7m NW-SE) defined by facing stones is at the highest point of the interior at SE. The site is surrounded by a partly tumbled drystone field wall N-SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO003-024002 House - indeterminate date
Description
On top of a low drumlin, and at the highest point of the interior of cashel (RO003-024001-) at SE. Rectangular platform (dims. 6m NE-SW; 2.7m NW-SE) defined by facing stones. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO003-025001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise. Subcircular area (dims. 36.5m NE-SW; 31m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m at SW to 2m at SE) SE-W-N, and a stone spread (Wth 3m; H 0.3-0.55m) elsewhere. It is bisected by a NE-SW field wall and is overgrown to the SE and grass-covered to the NW of this feature. It is described as having stones inside the bank at E, indicating use as a childrens burial ground (RO003-025002-) (OS Name Books). There is no trace of these stones now. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO003-025002 Children's burial ground
Description
On a low rise, and within the perimter of rath (RO003-025001-) at E. The rath is described as a an earthen fort with stones inside the bank at E, indicating use as a childrens burial ground (OS Name Books). There is no trace of the stones now. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO003-026 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 26m), which remains unplanted in a deciduous forest, defined by a scarp (H 0.1-0.6m). There is no visible bank, fosse or identifiable original entrance. Cashel (RO003-027----) is c. 140m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO003-027 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope and described as a circular area defined by a stone spread (Gannon 1971-2). It is not visible at ground level in a coniferous forest. Rath (RO003-026----) is c. 140m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO003-092 Fulacht fia
Description
In a boggy upland hollow. A kidney-shaped mound (dims. 13m E-W; 7m N-S; H 0.5-0.75m) of fire-cracked sandstone open to the S was excavated (96E0117) revealing two primary troughs. At the centre was an oval trough (dims 3m NE-SW; 1.55m NW-SE; D 0.2-0.45m) with a subcircular trough (dims 1.9m N-S; 1.45m E-W; D 0.3m) at the W end of the mound with a pot-boiler between them, all of which were broadly contemporary although the W trough was less developed. A third oval trough (dims 2m NW-SE; 1.7m NE-SW; D 0.5-0.8m) cut the SE edge of the central trough, None of the troughs were lined. (Opie 1996, 1997b) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 28 September 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tintagh.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Tintagh.
- 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 Tintagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Tintagh
- Area
- 1,978,619 m² (197.86 ha, 488.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Boyle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Kilbryan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbryan electoral division: 400 people in 144 households; 89% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Tintagh 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.