Tonlegee

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonlegee, from 292 m² to 197,280 m² (19.73 ha, 48.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Tonlegee 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.

• 26 Jun 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct a new 3 bay slatted cattle shed together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2551

• 22 Jul 2022Conditional

  Permission to renovate, modify and upgrade the existing single storey dwelling, construct a single-storey extension and domestic garage to its rear and install a wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22386

• 29 Jun 2022N/a

  permission to renovate, modify and upgrade the existing single-storey dwelling, construct a single-storey extension and domestic garage to its rear and install a wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22328

• 17 Sept 2021Refused

  permission to change the use of existing derelict house to a domestic garage, to construct a new dwelling house to its rear and install a wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21523

• 10 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20352

• 8 Mar 2019Conditional

  for construction of a four bay sheep shed with underground slurry storage tank, together with all associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19114

• 23 Oct 2017Conditional

  Planning permission to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17434

• 11 Oct 2017Conditional

  to erect a dwelling house, garage and sewerage treatment plant and percolation area at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17423

• 17 Jan 2017Conditional

  for the erection of three bay animal shed, incorporating slatted pens and slurry storage tanks with ancillary development on farm at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1713

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tonlegee.

Recorded monuments

• RO035-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 42.6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth 5.3m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.85-1m) SSW-N-SSE and a rounded fosse (at E: Wth of top 8.4m; Wth of base 3.4m; D 0.5m) NNW-E-SSE. The bank has been removed and the fosse re-cut (Wth of top 11.35m; Wth of base 7m; D 1.2m) NNW-NNE, and the bank has also been removed SSE-SSW. There is no identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-071 Quarry
  Description

  This is clearly marked as a quarry on the 1928 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and is now occupied by a farmyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-110001 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  In a low-lying landscape at the bottom of a N-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 75m E-W; 65m N-S) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 4.5-8m; H 0.1-0.2m) SE-NW and a scarp (H 0.1-0.4m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but there is a rectangular enclosure (RO035-110002-) at the centre. This is a grass-covered area (int. dims. 22m E-W; 17.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.4-2.7m; H 0.2-0.6m), with internal and external facing stones on the W and N sides, and an entrance (Wth 2.2m) at the E end of the S side. There is a grass-covered rectangular cairn (RO035-110003-) (dims. 5.5m N-S; 4m E-W; H 0.3m) at its centre, which may be a clearance cairn or the remains of a house. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-110002 Enclosure
  Description

  In a low-lying landscape at the bottom of a N-facing slope. Rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims 22m E-W; 17.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.4-2.7m; H 0.2-0.6m), with internal and external facing-stones on the W and N sides, and an entrance (Wth 2.2m) at the E end of the S side. It is at the centre of the large enclosure (RO035-110001-) and there is a grass-covered rectangular cairn (RO035-110003-) at its centre, which might be a clearance cairn or the remains of a house. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-110003 Cairn - clearance cairn
  Description

  In a low-lying landscape at the bottom of a N-facing slope. There is a rectangular grass-covered cairn (dims 5.5m N-S; 4m E-W; H 0.3m) at the centre of rectangular enclosure (RO035-110002-) which is at the centre of the large enclosure (RO035-110001-). It may be a clearance cairn or the remains of a house. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 27 September 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tonlegee.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Tonlegee.

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.

No address of the register names Tonlegee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Tonlegee · Tóin le Gaoith

Area

3,010,273 m² (301.03 ha, 743.85 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober South

Electoral division

Cams, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cams electoral division: 506 people in 164 households; 87% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooneenbaun, Lissagallan, Mullymucks, Rathconor, Smaghraan

Placenames

Tonlegee 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.