Roscommon People Friday 12 April 2013 31 PropertyPeople Valuations for ● Property Sales ● Lettings ● Valuations Local Property Tax Athleague, Co. Roscommon. Tel. (090) 6663700. Mob. (086) 8985013 www.connaughtonauctioneers.ie M.S.C.S.I Ivan Connaughton M.S.C.S.I. of Con- gardless of size, age or condition.” tact them on 090-6663700. naughton Auctioneers speaking to the Ivan states “I have been made aware Ivan states “The valuation will cost NEW TO THE MARKET Roscommon People in relation to the of many situations where people have €50 + vat for each property and will Local Property Tax has stated “I have paid the Local Property Tax despite include a photograph. If challenged CASTLECOOTE VILLAGE, CO. ROSCOMMON received extensive enquiries from their property having in most cases by Revenue in the future the valuation Price Region: Off ers in Excess of €100,000 home owners in relation to the Local a value in a lower band and in some will stand up to your self assessment. Property Tax and overall there is con- cashed in a higher band.” We will give you two copies of the Four bedroom bungalow located in fusion in relation to the method used Connaughton Auctioneers is advis- valuation. One to return to Revenue Tidy Towns award winning village in by Revenue as a guide to the value of ing homeowners if they are undecided with the form and one for your own Castlecoote. Boasting spacious living accommodation and magnifi cent their house. as to the value of their home, to avoid reference. Any person who requires views. “The Revenue have taken electoral interest and penalties at a future date assistance in fi lling out the form, we For further details contact the offi ce divisions and priced every house in should Revenue query the value they will assist same on site visit for no ex- these divisions at the same price re- believe their property is worth, to con- tra charge.” LANDS FOR SALE FINAL OFFERS BY 5PM FRIDAY 19TH APRIL Prime residential farm WILLSGROVE, BALLINTUBBER, Attractive Creggs CO. ROSCOMMON KNOCKMEANE ROSCOMMON on offer in Ballygar area Prime holding of lands containing c. 14.77 property priced to sell c. 23.5 acres located c. 1 mile from acres with site potential subject to plan- Ballintubber Village on the Castleplunkett ning permission. ERA Oates Auctioneers, Roscommon, are seeking of- Located at Milford, Creggs, Co. Road set out in two lots. For further details, brochure and map fers in the region of €250,000 this circa 31 acre residen- Galway, is a spacious fi ve-bedroom Lot 1: c. 15.7 acres with derelict residence. contact the offi ce. tial farm located at Abbeygrey, Ballygar, Co. Galway, residence located on the outskirts Off ers Excess €55,000 Final off ers by 5 pm Friday 19th April four miles from the village of Ballygar and 30 miles of Creggs Village within walking Lot 2: c. 7.8 acres. from Galway city. distance of local school, sports Off ers Excess €20,000 The said lands are all in grassland with a four-bed- grounds, shops etc. LOCAL PROPERTY TAX room two-storey residence together with stables for The said property is very well Connaughton Auctioneers conduct written 10 horses. The lands are LANDS TO LET valuations for the Local Property Tax. maintained both inside and out living room to front. The valuation will include a photograph and will located either side of the with landscaped grounds, tarmac This residence has been brought public road with a large c. 22 acres at Cooly, Fuerty. guide and cover your self assessment. €50 +Vat drive, stone walling to front and to the market by ERA Oates Auc- For further details contact the offi ce. polytunnel standing ther- post fencing to rear. Inside, the tioneers, Roscommon, and is For further details contact Ivan Connaughton eon. residence is very well fi nished with priced to sell at €90,000. 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In the townland of Coralea in Cam parish, a one-wall ball alley was knocked, great oak trees were uprooted, farm stock were killed and Loobinroe Windmill succumbed to the powers of nature. The year of the big wind became an important date 69 years later. In 1908 the Windmill old-age pension was intro- pictured were used much so many farm labourers, 32 feet. The building is HISTORIC SITES later in the eighteenth and making emigration a ne- conical in shape and at its duced in Ireland and for nineteenth centuries to cessity. base has walls over three those that could remember IN ROSCOMMON process grain to fl our to Loobinroe is different in feet thick. that fateful night, it meant A series inspired by make bread. design to many windmills If the 1818 date above is they qualifi ed for the pen- Dysart Rural Men’s Group A person who worked in dating from this period as indeed the year this wind- sion. Though the payment a windmill at this time was they had a front and back mill was built, then it had was small, it was a help to so many families in a coun- Loobinroe Windmill is sit- known as a miller and a entrance, but for some un- a short lifespan because on 19th century census for this known reason a back door the night of the 6th to the try depopulated decade af- uated over 400 feet above ter decade since 1850. sea level and is the highest area shows people as hav- was never included in the morning of the 7th January ing had this occupation. original design at Loobin- 1839, Ireland experienced In 1995 a local com- point in and overlooking munity project was initi- Tisrara parish. For obvi- Today, pasture farming is roe. one of the most devastating else, unaware of what was increasing in ferocity and predominant in the sur- On the right-hand side storms ever, and has been soon to unfold. destroying much in its path. ated to have the windmill ous reasons, the highest restored with the support location meant that the rounding countryside but of the entrance there is an immortalised in folklore as As day went towards night Ireland’s population was people knew that something primarily rural at this time of Fr. Francis Beirne, PP, windmill was going to be the fact that a windmill was inscription dating from the ‘night of the big wind’. situated here means that 1818, and there is also a Accounts of this event are was amiss. There was a and the majority of people Four Roads, PJ Moran, where the greatest winds Four Roads and many lo- were – and the most ef- tillage farming was widely mark adjacent to the date, numerous. On the 6th of snowfall but it was not cold lived in wattle and daub cab- practised by the farming probably belonging to the January 1839, just as little and the voices of people ins with a thatch roof and as cal stonemasons working fi cient – but for this wind- under a local CE scheme. mill it was also going to be community at this time. stone mason who inscribed Christmas was coming to could be heard many miles a result no match against the It was after the famine of the stone. A number of an end, all seemed normal. away. As night darkened, powers of nature. A former Today, this site has public an important factor in its access and if you choose to demise. 1845-50 that farming as we windows are built into Young children were en- people feared for their lives, member of our group, Tom know it changed from till- the structure of the wind- joying the light snowfall because, for the next eleven Kelly (R.I.P.) who had a visit, a nice day is best; at Windmills in Ireland be- 432 ft. above sea level the came widespread during age to pasture on a wider mill which, when in use, which had covered almost hours, lightning, torrential remarkable knowledge of scale, resulting in the clo- was three fl oors high, and all of the country, playing rain and gale-force winds local history, often talked surrounding countryside is the later medieval period a scene of tranquillity. and mills such as the one sure of many mills and, for reaching a height of over happily, and, like everyone swept across the country, of the devastating effects .