Togher
Togher is a townland in the civil parish of Taghmaconnell, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 205.6 ha
- 508 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 8,230 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Togher, from 22 m² to 1,057,961 m² (105.8 ha, 261.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Togher 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
20 Dec 2023N/a
Planning permission and retention planning permission for the following: (1) retention permission for plant room to rear of existing main building on the site, (2) retention permission for the waste water treatment system including tanks, screener, storage containers, water softener shed, and associated plant, (3) retention permission for workshop with boiler room and ESB room, (4) retention permission for standby generator, (5) retention permission for carparking area to eastern side of Regional Road R357, (6) retention permission for intake office, (7) planning permission for an oil separator for the surface water being collected on the external yards, and (8) all associated site works. The site currently has a Discharge Licence (Reg. No. WP-03-11, Roscommon County Council) at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2360285
7 Dec 2023N/a
Planning permission and retention planning permission at Togher, Taughmaconnell, Ballinasloe, Co. Roscommon, H53 HW24 for the following: 1) retention permission for plant room to rear of existing main building on the site, 2) retention permission for the waste water treatment system including tanks, screener, storage containers, water softener shed, and associated plant, 3) retention permission for workshop with boiler room and ESB room, 4) retention permission for standby generator, 5) retention permission for carparking area to eastern side of Regional Road R357, 6) retention permission for intake office, 7) planning permission for an oil separator for the surface water being collected on the external yards, and 8) all associated site works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2360251
29 May 2023N/a
Permission for: (1) Construction of an extension to the south western corner of the existing building containing a freezer room and variety meats processing area and (2) All associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23221
8 May 2020Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system & associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20168
6 Aug 2019Refused
to construct a dwellinghouse, garage, waste water treatment system and associated siteworks at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19397
5 Oct 2017Refused
To erect a dwelling house with wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17412
24 May 2017Refused
to erect a dwelling house with wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17232
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 Togher.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Togher.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Togher.
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 Togher, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1376 (ZIP).
- 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 Togher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Togher
- Area
- 2,055,501 m² (205.55 ha, 507.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghmaconnell, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Carrowreagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 554 people lived in 189 households in the Carrowreagh electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowreagh, Cloonaddron, Clooncoran, Culliagharny, Gortanabla, Newtown
- Placenames
- Togher 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.