Tullen
Tullen is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltrustan, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 59.8 ha
- 148 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 20,181 m² (2.02 ha, 4.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullen, from 1,004 m² to 83,327 m² (8.33 ha, 20.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Tullen 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
29 Sept 2025Conditional
Retention Permission for a Dry Shed for Calving circa 134sq.m., a Milking Parlour circa 147sq.m., a Silo circa 6sq.m. and a round bale storage area along with all ancillary site development works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2560464
28 Mar 2025Conditional
Retention Permission and Planning Permission for the following: 1. Retain 4 no. Slatted Sheds circa 1,376m², 2. Retain 1 no. Dry Bed/Cubicle Shed circa 259 m², 3. Retain 1 no. Dung Stead circa 59 m², 4. Retain 1 no. Silage Pit/Slab circa 460.5 m², 5. Retain 1 no. Machinery Shed circa 255 m², 6. Permission to construct 1 new slatted shed circa 190 m² and 7. Permission to construct new hard stand with slatted tank and all ancillary site development works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2560138
31 Oct 2023Conditional
Permission to construct slatted shed and manure pit together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360197
17 Oct 2023N/a
Planning Permission to constructed Slatted Shed and Manure Pit together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360179
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 Tullen.
Recorded monuments
- RO023-075 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 50m N-S; c. 35m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a hachured feature on the 1914 ed. Situated on a W-facing slope of Mullaghcreigha Hill. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-076 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the crest of the N end of the NW-SE ridge of Mullaghcreigha Hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37.1m N-S; 36.7m E-W) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 3.3-5.2m; int. H 0.2-0.7m; ext. H 0.7-1.2m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 3.5-4.3m; Wth of base 1.3-1.8m; D 0.2m) S-W-NNE, but the bank is incorporated into a townland boundary with Kiltrustan (Wth 6.5m; H 1.3m) and the fosse is removed NNE-S. There is an entrance (Wth 2.2m) at NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-115 Earthwork
Description
Marked as a small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) bisected by a N-S lane on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a D-shaped field (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE) truncated by a NE-SW field bank at SE on the 1914 ed. Situated on a W-facing slope of Mullaghcreigha Hill, it is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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 Tullen.
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 Tullen.
- 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 Tullen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Tullen
- Area
- 598,281 m² (59.83 ha, 147.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltrustan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Cregga, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 166 people lived in 59 households in the Cregga electoral division. 98% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cuilrevagh, Doonard Beg, Dunmurraghoe, Kiltrustan, Lettreen
- Placenames
- Tullen 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.