Roxborough

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roxborough, from 44 m² to 227,007 m² (22.7 ha, 56.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Roxborough.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-264 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Described by Bence-Jones (1978) as an 18th-century house comprising two-storeys over a basement with a gable-ended front and a gable-ended return. The front was of five bays with a fanlighted doorway. This was the childhood home of Lady Gregory. Only the ruins of the house survive. It was burnt in 1922. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 29 November 2018

• GA104-291 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture on top of low hillock; there is a small-scale quarry to the N and a large natural depression to the ENE. This circular rath (diam. 28m) is defined by the remains of low bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.55m; Wth 4.5m) which is reduced to a scarp in places. The bank (int. H 1.0m; ext. H 0.25m; Wth 6.1m) is best preserved from NW to NE where an external level step (Wth 0.65m) at the base of the bank may mark the top of the hillock. The remains of a low field bank enclose the monument to the N, E and S. A possible souterrain (GA104-291001-) is visible off-centre to the W. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 October 2019

• GA104-291001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within a rath (GA104-291----), just off-centre to the W. A linear depression (15m E-W; 4.5m N-S; Dth 0.5m) marks potential collapse into a souterrain. The sides slope gently to the base, which is generally level, apart from a slight rise off-centre to the W. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 October 2019

• GA114-156 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle rise in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 37m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse from WNW through N to NE. A field wall cuts through it at WNW and NE and to the S of it the wall it has been levelled. However, its outline is visible as a stony patch with a slight dip indicating the line of the fosse. Another rath (GA114-157----) lies c. 120m to the SSW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 March 2018

• GA114-157 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pastureland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. 48.8) defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The very substantial inner bank is visible all round. The fosse is wide, deep and flat bottomed. The outer bank is preserved from SSE through W to NE. Its E section has been defaced where a N-S running field wall and roadway clip it. A post and wire fences runs E-W just to its N and another runs N-S to its W. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2m) at SE. Numerous depressions and low grass-covered banks are visible in the interior. A possible souterrain (GA114-157001-) is associated (SMR file). Another rath (GA114-156----) lies c. 120m to the NNE. This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1983). The following image has been uploaded: GA114-157----_01.jpg View of inner bank, fosse and outer bank at SSE Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 March 2018

• GA114-157001 Souterrain
  Description

  In pastureland; associated with a rath (GA114-157----). On inspection in October 1956 it was noted that, according to local tradition, a souterrain here 'connects with one in the ring-fort [GA114-156----]100 yds [c. 30m]. N' (SMR file). No visible surface trace survived. On re-inspection in November 1982 local information revealed that when a drain or trench had been dug a few years previously a 'tunnel' which was c. '3 to 4 foot square [c. 0.9-1.2m]' was discovered under or beside the road. It was on a direct line between the rath (GA114-157----) and the road to the N. Again no visible surface trace survived. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 April 2018

• GA114-159 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle N-facing slope in pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (33m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by a grassed-over bank of earth and stone (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m). A gap (Wth 3m) at ENE may be original. Traces of a rectangular enclosure (12m E-W; 9m N-S) defined by a low bank, abutting the monument at S, may be an associated annexe. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 April 2018

Architectural heritage

• Roxborough, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gateway to Roxborough, erected c.1860, comprising spear-headed cast-iron double-leaf vehicular gate, flanked by cut limestone piers with moulded cornices and carved caps, flanked by matching cast-iron pedestrian gates and further piers, having ball-shaped wheel guards, in turn flanked by rubble limestone quadrant walls with cut-stone copings, and having terminating piers.

• Roxborough, steward's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-bay two-storey former steward's house, built c.1820, having projecting gabled entrance bay. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, decoratively carved timber bargeboards, timber eaves brackets, and cut limestone chimneystacks. Coursed rubble limestone walls having cut-stone quoins and render plinth course. Bronze imitation clock and cut limestone pedestal to upper part of front wall of projection. Round-headed doorway to entrance bay with cut-stone block-and-start surround, double-leaf timber panelled door and spoked fanlight. Square-headed opening to north-west elevation having cut limestone block-and-start surround and timber panelled door. Square-headed openings throughout, with tooled limestone sills, label-mouldings and mullioned timber casement windows. Remains of outbuildings to rear of house, having coursed rubble limestone walls, cut-stone block-and-start surrounds to square-headed door openings, cut-stone sills to window openings, and segmental-headed openings having cut-stone voussoirs. Part of façade remains of Roxborough, built 1820s but as later part of eighteenth-century house, and having crenellated cut limestone walls, chimneystack, and pointed arch openings. Remains of walled garden to rear (west) of house, with rubble limestone walls having cut limestone surrounds to openings.

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 Roxborough, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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Terrain model

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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 Roxborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Roxborough · Creig an Róistigh

Area

1,591,479 m² (159.15 ha, 393.26 acres)

Civil parish

Killinan, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Kilchreest, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 111 households in the Kilchreest electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygunneen, Ballymullen, Ballyshea, Caherlinny, Deerpark, Eskershanore, Furzypark, Isertkelly North, Lahardaun, Pollnashinnagh

Placenames

Roxborough 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.