Tonbaun
Tonbaun is a townland in the civil parish of Cloonygormican, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 119.9 ha
- 296 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 50,113 m² (5.01 ha, 12.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonbaun, from 2,021 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 153,850 m² (15.38 ha, 38.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Tonbaun 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
No planning application touches the townland of Tonbaun 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Brierfield Turlough 000594
Recorded monuments
- RO028-171 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a NE-facing slope of a broad plateau. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 34.3m N-S; 30.8m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.3-0.5m) which is slightly straightened by a NE-SW relict field bank at NW. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO028-176 Crannog
Description
About 160m from the NE shore of a triangular turlough (dims c. 1 km NW-SE; c. 600m NE-SW at SE). Circular grass-covered mound (diam. 26.5m N-S; 25m E-W; H 0.7-1.3m). It is overlain by an E-W drystone wall S of the centre, and crannog (RO028-177----) is c. 200m to the ESE. (Herity 1987a, 139) See the attached view taken from the road to the NE when the turlough is full. 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 Tonbaun.
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 Tonbaun, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tonbaun.
- 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 Tonbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Tonbaun
- Area
- 1,199,486 m² (119.95 ha, 296.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloonygormican, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballymoe
- Electoral division
- Carrowduff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 212 people lived in 80 households in the Carrowduff electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghabawbeg, Ballaghabawmore, Ballymaglancy, Ballynaheglish, Brierfield, Caran
- Placenames
- Tonbaun 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.