Willsborough
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltullagh, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon; in Irish Willsborough
- Area
- 90.1 ha
- 223 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 10,633 m² (1.06 ha, 2.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Willsborough, from 1,100 m² to 61,606 m² (6.16 ha, 15.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Willsborough 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
5 Oct 2022Refused
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22541
5 Nov 2021Refused
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage / fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21629
21 Jul 2020Conditional
to revise site boundaries to dwelling previously granted planning permission under P&D Ref 07/2145 at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20284
23 Mar 2020Conditional
to construct domestic garage/fuel store associated works and services to side of existing dwelling at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20125
5 Mar 2020Conditional
to upgrade existing foul treatment system, all as per drawing documentation submitted, together with all ancillary site works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2092
4 Dec 2019Conditional
to retain as constructed dwelling house which differs to that granted under PD/05/614 and associated site development works at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19625
7 Jun 2018Conditional
for the construction of proposed floating jetty to provide harbour for boats with access gangway, proposed wheelchair accessible fishing stand with access gangway, proposed rock breakwater, construction of proposed playground, demolition of existing vehicular entrance and construction of proposed revised, widened vehicular entrance, construction of revised car park layout with traffic calming island and speed bumps, proposed store and associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18277
25 Jul 2017Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house and garage with connection to the public sewer together with all its associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17330
10 Jul 2017N/a
To construct a new dwelling house with connection to the public sewer together with all its associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17310
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: Lough O'Flynn 001645
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Willsborough.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Willsborough.
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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Willsborough.
- 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 Willsborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Willsborough · Willsborough
- Area
- 901,417 m² (90.14 ha, 222.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltullagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Ballinlough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballinlough electoral division: 1,138 people in 465 households; 78% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlough, Carrick, Cloonalough, Clooncrim, Falledeen, Mountain Upper, Rabbitburrow
- Placenames
- Willsborough 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.