Rosfaraghan

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosfaraghan, from 627 m² to 312,215 m² (31.22 ha, 77.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Rosfaraghan 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.

• 16 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW WAREHOUSING UNITS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19493

• 5 Oct 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW WAREHOUSING UNITS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18428

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 Rosfaraghan.

Recorded monuments

• OF015-270 Road - class 1 togher
  Description

  The site (L 163.9m min.; Wth 1.75m; D 0.35m) is orientated ENE-WSW and consists of layers of sand, gravel, stone and brushwood with planks forming the upper walking-surface. This site is likely to represent a number of phases or episodes of construction as 0.05-0.2m of undisturbed peat separated a numbers of layers. The basal layer (Wth 1.26m; D 0.4m) consisted of a bed of gravel and sand with decayed sandstone flagstones. It was deepest in the centre of the deposit tapering to 0.05m deep at the edges. Above this, separated by approximately 0.1m of poorly-humified Sphagnum peat, the overlying deposit was similarly comprised of a thin layer of sand, gravel and flagstones (Wth 0.93m; D 0.05m). Again, approximately 0.1m of similar peat separated this from the overlying deposit of compact mixed brushwood and light roundwoods, up to six pieces deep, with occasional gravel and lens of fine gravel (Wth 2.1m; D 0.26m). This layer was directly overlain by a superstructure of three longitudinal oak planks (Wth 0.6m; D 0.14m). One of these timbers was radially split with a mortice at one end while the others were an inner and a second inner tangential split. The latter timber was dendrochronologically dated to AD 1219±9 (Q9252) and had a degraded mortice. This site may relate to SMR OF015-269----, located approximately 204m to the N, although the large intervening area and slight variation in construction made it difficult to determine this with certainty. Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin). Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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_1741 (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 Rosfaraghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Rosfaraghan · Ros Faracháin

Area

1,690,427 m² (169.04 ha, 417.71 acres)

Civil parish

Wheery or Killagally, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Ferbane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ferbane electoral division: 1,281 people in 484 households; 83% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydaly, Ballyvlin, Brehoge, Derrica Beg, Derrica More, Keeloge, Kilcolgan More, Lemanaghan, Straduff

Placenames

Rosfaraghan 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.