Toobrackan

221 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toobrackan, from 20 m² to 95,344 m² (9.53 ha, 23.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 80 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 Toobrackan 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.

• 15 Sept 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house and domestic waste water treatment system on site, together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560444

• 20 Jul 2020Conditional

  to construct a proposed new 732 square metre industrial unit, proprietary effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter, complete with all associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20283

• 25 Sept 2018Conditional

  Permission for a forest bell mouth entrance onto a public road including all other associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18492

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 Toobrackan.

Recorded monuments

• RO008-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40.3m N-S; 37.6m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8m; at N: Wth 5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.9m) NE-SSE and SW-NNE which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.9m) SSE-SW and is missing (L 17m) NNE-ENE. There is an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.8m at N to 4.4m at W; D 0.3-0.4m) WSW-NE, but there is no visible entrance. A buffer zone (Wth 20m) was established around the monument in 2009 during the archaeological testing for the N5 Ballaghadereen bypass and for any subsequent construction (O'Neill 2009, 16). An area outside the buffer-zone was excavated (Kyle and Delaney 2011a; Kyle 2011d) when evidence of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age activity was recorded (RO008-065----) as well as elements of a field system (RO008-023001-) associated with the rath and an enclosure (RO008-023002-). Further excavation in 2012 by S. Delaney under the same license (10E0301) identified a narrow ditch outside the visible fosse of the rath and curving in line with the perimeter in the S sector. It produced material that provided a C14 date of AD 666-773 (Delaney et al. 2016, 86). Three sections of ditch to the NE were also curved with the perimeter, but there were original gaps between the sections. See this web-page accessed on 4 December, 2014: http://www.excavations.ie/report/2012/Roscommon/0023394/ Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 2 December, 2014

• RO008-023001 Field system
  Description

  Located on a gentle S-facing slope. Archaeological excavation (10E0301) in an arc (Wth c. 10-40m) outside the exclusion zone (Wth c. 20m) around the rath (RO008-023----) SW-W-NE recorded three drains or ditches (Wth 0.6-1.1m; D 0.2-0.25m) with some gaps approaching the rath from the W, N and NE. The last (L c. 40m) would connect the rath with an enclosure (RO008-023002-) that was partly excavated. (Kyle and Delaney 2011a, 4-5; Delaney et al. 2016, 86) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 February, 2012

• RO008-023002 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a gentle S-facing slope c. 50m NE of rath (RO008-023----). Archaeolgical excavation (10E0301) as part of the N5 Ballaghaderreen bypass uncovered part of an enclosure in an L-shaped ditch (Wth 2.2m; D 0.75m) running S (L 15m plus) and turning E (L 15m) through a rounded corner to a terminus. Ash from the ditch produced a calibrated C14 date of AD 1023-1155. An element of the field system (RO008-023001-) connects the enclosure to the rath. (Kyle and Delaney 2011a; Delany et al. 2016, 86) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 February, 2012

• RO008-065 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope with a NW-SE stream c. 190m to the SW, and just W of rath (RO008-023----). Archaeological testing (09E0475) during 2009 on the route of the N5 Ballaghadereen bypass identified a number of pits in a concentrated area that was set aside for resolution as Toobrackan 1 (O'Neill 2009, 17-8; 2012). An arc (Wth 10-40m) was excavated (10E0301) outside the exclusion zone of the rath (Wth 20m) SW-NE, which revealed a line of four pits (diam. 0.5-0.8m; D 0.15-0.5m) or post-holes aligned NW-SE, c. 30m W of the rath. One pit produced a C14 date of 2861-2576 cal. BC. There were two hearths c. 40m to the SW of the pits, one of which produced a C14 date of 2113-1900 cal. BC. These features were intermixed with elements of the field system (RO008-023001-) associated with the rath. (Kyle and Delaney 2011a, 2-3; Delaney et al. 2016, 82-3) Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 9 February, 2012

• RO008-066 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Archaeological testing (09E0475) during 2009 on the route of the N5 Ballaghadereen bypass identified a deposit of burnt mound material (dims 10m NE-SW; 2m plus NW-SE; T 0.2m) that was set aside for resolution as Toobrackan 2 (O'Neill 2009, 17; 2012). It was completely excavated (10E0301) when two rectangular troughs (dims 0.8m x 0.63m; D 0.3m: 1.7m x 1.1m; D 0.25m) were recorded beneath the remains of a burnt mound. The larger trough produced a C14 date of 1111-902 cal. BC. (Kyle and Delaney 2011a, 4; Kyle 2013d) Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 9 February, 2012. O’Neill, N. 2009 N5 Balllaghaderreen Bypass Road Scheme, Co. Roscommon. Report on Archaeological Test Trenching of Areas A-F. Licence No. 09E0475, Unpublished report for Roscommon County Council , Headland Archaeology

• RO008-075 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Identified in centre-line testing (10E0299) in Area 7 of the N5 Ballaghaderreen bypass as a spread of burnt material with charcoal (diam. 1.2m; max. D 0.25m) filled with a charcoal-rich silty clay, which was set aside for further work as Toobrackan 3, (Janes and Delaney 2010b, 8). It was subsequently completely excavated (10E0382) as a single oval pit (dims. 1.4m x 1.2m; D 0.2m) with steep sides cut into the sandy clay subsoil and contained a sandy clay with heat-shattered stone and charcoal. A fragment of ash produced a C14 date of cal. AD 1048-1218, and it is interpreted as a cooking pit. (Kyle and Delaney 2011i; Kyle 2013e) Compiled by: Michael Moore date of upload: 15 February, 2012

• RO008-076 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape, c. 100m from a small N-S stream to the E and c. 100m from a small W-E stream to the S. Identified in centre-line testing (10E0299) in Area 7 of the N5 Ballaghaderreen bypass as an area of c. 100 sq m with numerous small pits, one of which produced prehistoric pottery were recovered in small area. It was set aside for further work as Toobrackan 4. (Janes and Delaney 2010b, 8-9) There was further excavation (10E0383) when nine features, either post-holes or small pits (diam. c. 0.7-1m; D 0.15-0.25m) cut into the sandy clay subsoil were recorded. They were filled with brown or black silty clay, and produced C14 dates in the early Neolithic period (3900-3500 BC) (Delaney et al 2016, 82). This is in perfect accord with the sherds of two or three carinated Neolithic bowls that were recovered. (Kyle and Delaney 2011j; Kyle 2013f; Delaney at al. 2016) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 11 August, 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Toobrackan.

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 Toobrackan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Toobrackan

Area

3,021,460 m² (302.15 ha, 746.62 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolman, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Edmondstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Edmondstown electoral division: 458 people in 179 households; 92% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attiantaggart, Ballyoughter, Banada, Bockagh, Boleysillagh, Cloonmeen, Coolaghtane, Magheraboy, Tullaghanrock

Placenames

Toobrackan 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.