Roscrea

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roscrea, from 423 m² to 59,420 m² (5.94 ha, 14.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Roscrea 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.

• 30 Jun 2022Refused

  to (1) construct a new dwelling house, a new effluent treatment system and all associated site works.Gross floor space of proposed works 177.90sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260665

• 23 Jul 2021N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house, a new effluent treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 175.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211349

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 Roscrea.

Recorded monuments

• GA022-130 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a rush-covered field at the base of a steep S-facing slope of a hill. According to local information, a spring well in the field supplied the local water needs up until about 50 years ago. This fulacht fia was defined by a low horseshoe-shaped grassy mound (Wth 8m; H 0.15-0.5m) with a central depression (3m WNW-ESE; 2.5m WSW-ENE; D 0.35m) opening to the WSW. Some burnt stone and ash were exposed where the grass cover had been poached by cattle (information from Mr. L. Morahan). On inspection in January 2019, the fulacht fia had been largely levelled as a result of development works. Another possible fulacht fia (GA022-131----) lies c. 160m to the NNW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Edited by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 7 June 2023

• GA022-131 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a rush-covered field in an area of rough grazing land. This fulacht fia came to light when a NE-SW running drain was being dug to the SE of a trackway. A spread of burnt stone and ash (10m NE-SW; D 0.45m) was exposed on both sides of the drain. A circular area (diam. 7m) free of rushes to its E may be associated. Another fulacht fia (GA022-130----) lies c. 160m to the SSE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by Leo Morahan Date of upload: 2 January 2019

• GA023-028 Standing stone
  Description

  On the summit of a low hill overlooking the mouth of Abhainn an tSraithín. Thin slab of schist, rectangular in plan (H 1.63m) (GA023-028----). No visible trace survives of the faint 'rectangular enclosure [GA023-028001-], about 12ft. [3.65m] square' noted by Redington 'on the S side of this monument' (1914, 239-40). (Killanin 1954, 98) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA023-028001 Enclosure
  Description

  On the summit of a low hill overlooking the mouth of Abhainn an tSraithín. Thin slab of schist, rectangular in plan (H 1.63m) (GA023-028----). No visible trace survives of the faint 'rectangular enclosure [GA023-028001-], about 12ft. [3.65m] square' noted by Redington 'on the S side of this monument' (1914, 239-40). (Killanin 1954, 98) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 26 October 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Roscrea, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Roscrea.

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.

No address of the register names Roscrea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Roscrea · Ros Cré

Area

509,562 m² (50.96 ha, 125.92 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

516 people lived in 204 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Moyard, Rosleague, Ungwee

Placenames

Roscrea 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.