Toberdan
Toberdan is a townland in the civil parish of St. Johns, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Tiobradán.
- Area
- 209.9 ha
- 519 acres
- Land parcels
- 193
- registered freehold, median 3,088 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
193 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toberdan, from 9 m² to 144,965 m² (14.5 ha, 35.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Toberdan 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
27 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission for works to uprate approximately 35.7km of the overall 35.82km of the existing Athlone to Lanesboro 110 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit located within the administrative boundary within County Roscommon. The proposed development will consist of: • Replacement (“restringing”) and uprating of the conductor along the existing Athlone-Lanesboro 110 kV OHL circuit; • Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; • Replacement of 155No. Intermediate Wooden Polesets (IMPs), with similar structures, including poleset stays at 32No. IMPs. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 23m along the circuit, the majority of height increases will be between 0.1m and 2.0m (at 125 No. IMPs), with the remainder between 2.1m and 3.7m, and a 4.0m height increase at only one IMP. 3no. IMP replacements will not result in a height change; • Replacement of 25No. Intermediate Wooden Poleset crossarms; • Replacement of 1No. steel angle mast, the replacement structure will result in a height increase of 0.5m; • Foundation strengthening of 9No. steel angle masts, and 1No. end mast; • Bar member replacements to 12No. steel angle masts and 1No. end mast; and, •All associated development including insulator/hardware replacement (suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of signage, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anticlimbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application, the location of which begins at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460559
4 Aug 2023Conditional
Retention permission for the development consisting of alterations to the east, south and west elevations of the existing domestic garage at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23335
24 Jul 2023N/a
Permission for Retention Permission for the development consists of alterations to the east, south and west elevations of the existing domestic garage at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 23321
20 Jan 2023Refused
Retention Permission - change of use for the development which consists of the alterations to the east, south and west elevations of the existing domestic garage and change of use from domestic garage to pilates and wellbeing studio. Also, Retention Permission for the retention of the road opening/entrance and driveway for the studio and associated works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2315
7 Dec 2022N/a
Permission for development comprising of the retention of changes to the east, south and west elevations of the existing domestic garage and the change of use from domestic garage to pilates and wellbeing studio. Also, permission for the retention of the road opening/entrance for the studio and associated works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 22650
4 Jul 2022N/a
Retention permission for existing domestic store consisting of changes to elevational treatment of domestic store previously granted on permission ref. PD/17/365 on site at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22344
30 Aug 2017Conditional
for erection of dwelling house with proprietary sewerage treatment plant, with domestic store and all ancillary development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17365
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 Toberdan.
Recorded monuments
- RO045-046 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the W-facing crest of a small NW-SE ridge on a broad plateau. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37.1m NNE-SSW; 35.1m WNW-ESE) defined by a poached earthen bank (Wth 4.6-4.8m; int. H 0.5-0.65m; ext. H 1.15-1.45m) with inner facing stones ESE-SSE. There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth 3.1m) is at SSE. Some relict field banks and lazy beds are in the interior. Mound (RO045-047----) is c. 60m to the S. See the attached image taken from the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO045-047 Barrow - mound barrow
Description
On the W-facing crest of a small NW-SE ridge on a broad plateau. Circular flat-topped, grass and scrub-covered mound (diam. of top 11.3m WNW-ESE; 10.9m NNE-SSW) defined by a scarp (H 1-1.25m) with facing-stones that are most evident at SW. Barrow (RO045-048001-) is c. 75m to the SE, and rath (RO045-046----) is c. 60m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO045-048001 Barrow - unclassified
Description
On the W-facing crest of a small NW-SE ridge on a broad plateau. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 20.7m N-S; 21.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.9m) incorporated into a field bank with scrub E-S-W and reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m) elsewhere. Three stones from a cist (RO045-048002-) (dims 1.2m x 0.9m; H 0.5-0.7m) are exposed at the centre. Mound barrow (RO045-047----) is c. 75m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO045-048002 Cist
Description
On the W-facing crest of a small NW-SE ridge on a broad plateau. Three stones from a cist (dims 1.2m x 0.9m) are exposed at the centre of barrow (RO045-048001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO045-049 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular hachured feature (ext. diam. c. 30m) only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the NE-facing crest of a broad hill. Subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 25.3m; NE-SW; 21.5m NW-SE) defined by a slight bank (Wth 4; H 0.1-0.3m), with slight traces of a fosse (Wth of top 3.5m; Wth of base 1.4m; D 0.25m) at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO045-242 Memorial stone
Description
Towards the top of a NE-facing slope. This is a rectangular limestone slab (dims 2.34m x 1.23m; T 0.1m) commemorating Peter Kelly who died in 1811 and his daughter Mary Kelly who died in 1812. 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 Toberdan.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Toberdan.
- 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 Toberdan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Toberdan · Tiobradán
- Area
- 2,098,795 m² (209.88 ha, 518.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Johns, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Lecarrow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 333 people lived in 124 households in the Lecarrow electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballagh, Carrigan More, Curraghalaher, Galeybeg, Kellybrook, Kellybrook, Killiaghan and Gort
- Placenames
- Toberdan 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.