Rathsallagh

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathsallagh, from 490 m² to 516,028 m² (51.6 ha, 127.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathsallagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rathsallagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Rathsallagh.

Recorded monuments

• LF023-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low ridge in pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 58m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a wide, shallow, external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. The rath is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF023-104 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low ridge in pasture. Depicted as a large circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised circular area (diam. c. 57m) enclosed by a low scarp (H 0.3m), which has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from SSW-W-WNW. The original entrance is not recognisable. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded an external fosse, which has since been infilled. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Sunfield House, farmyard complex, 1850–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, c.1875, including: Detached five-bay single-storey coach house-cum-stable outbuilding with half-attic on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled breakfront. Pitched fibre-cement slate roofs; pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront), clay ridge tiles, decorative timber bargeboards to gable (breakfront) with wrought iron weathervane to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards with cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Elliptical-headed central carriageway with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs framing tongue-and-groove timber boarded double doors. Square-headed central window opening with cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings framing six-over-three timber sash window having part exposed sash box. Square-headed door openings with concealed dressings framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-three timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes behind wrought iron bars (ground floor) or louvered timber fittings (half-attic). Set in grounds shared with Sunfield House.

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1820 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Rathsallagh · Ráth Salach

Area

772,334 m² (77.23 ha, 190.85 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyshrule, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

Electoral division

Agharra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Agharra electoral division: 480 people in 173 households; 85% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlewilder, Killeenboy, Lisaquill, Ratharney, Vicarstown

Placenames

Rathsallagh 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.