Turlagh
Townland in the civil parish of Rahara, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 100.4 ha
- 248 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 19,075 m² (1.91 ha, 4.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turlagh, from 166 m² to 465,987 m² (46.6 ha, 115.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Turlagh 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
30 Jan 2024Conditional
Permission for a Farm Road on lands at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460040
26 Jan 2018Conditional
Full planning permission for a sheep shed and ancillary concrete works on lands at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1822
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 Turlagh.
Recorded monuments
- RO045-031 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 45m NW-SE) defined by a slight broad rise (at SSE: Wth 6m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.4m) SE-W-NW, and slight traces of an outer fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.35m) WSW-NW, but the perimeter merges into the slope NW-E-SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO045-032 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the SW edge of a basin. A subcircular grass-covered earthen mound (diam. of base 11m NW-SE; 9.5m NE-SW; H 1.5m) with stones may be a spoil mound from the removal of an enclosure. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO045-033001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated towards the bottom of a W-facing slope, overlooking a basin to the W and a slight S-N valley to the NNE. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33.6m NW-SE; 30.7m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-5.8m; int. H 0.8-1.6m; ext. H 1-1.6m), which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge with slight traces of an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.2m) S-W-NE. There is a modernised entrance (Wth 3.3m) at SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO045-037 Ringfort - rath
Description
Just off the crest of the NE-facing slope of a W-E spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37.8m NNW-SSE; 34.6m ENE-WSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth 5.8m; int H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) which is best preserved (Wth 7.4m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 2.35m) at W separated by a complete fosse (Wth 5-6.7m; ext. D 0.7-1m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.6m; ext. H 0.4m) NW-NE. There are modern entrances with causeways at ESE and NNW, and it is circumscribed by a field wall W-N-ESE, which forms the townland boundary with Barnacullen to the N. Rath (RO045-036----) is c. 95m to the NE and rath (RO045-040----) is c. 180m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO045-038 Barrow - bowl-barrow
Description
At the summit of a broad NNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered and domed mound (diam. 21.8m NW-SE; 21.5m NE-SW; H 1.55-2.5m) defined by a fosse (Wth of base 1-2.2m; D 0.55-0.7m), with an outer bank (at NW: Wth 11.8m; ext. H 0.8m) WSW-N-ENE on the downslope side (ext. diam. c. 40m NW-SE). There is a small drystone-built structure on the summit of the mound. Barrow (RO045-039----) is c. 45m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO045-039 Barrow - stepped barrow
Description
At the summit of a broad NNW-ESE ridge. The name 'Sheegort' is derived from Ceat Magach, one of Queen Meave's warriors, according to local tradition (Gannon 1972). Subcircular grass and scrub-covered mound (dims of top 33.8m NE-SW; 28.5m NW-SE; dim. of base 40m NW-SE; H 4.6m at NW and SE) with a dished summit (diam. of hollow 21m NW-SE; D 1-1.6m) that may be the result of ancient quarrying. At the base is a fosse (Wth of base 3.2-4.5m; D 1-2m) and there is a ramp onto the mound at NNE (max. ext. diam. 54.4m NW-SE). Barrow (RO045-038----) is c. 45m to the NNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO045-040 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the NE-facing shoulder of a W-E spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.4m NW-SE) defined by the remains of an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m) which is not visible N-E. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Raths (RO045-037----; RO045-041----; RO045-042----) are c. 180m to the WNW, 110m to the S and 170m to the ESE respectively. 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 Turlagh.
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
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Turlagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Turlagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Turlagh
- Area
- 1,004,173 m² (100.42 ha, 248.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rahara, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Scregg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Scregg electoral division: 556 people in 201 households; 89% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballagh, Barnacullen, Highbog, Kellybrook
- Placenames
- Turlagh 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.