Ardsallagh Beg

225 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardsallagh Beg, from 5 m² to 74,785 m² (7.48 ha, 18.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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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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 Ardsallagh Beg.

Recorded monuments

• RO039-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight E-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Circular overgrown area with mature trees on the perimeter (diam. 20.5m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.8-3.9m; int. H 0.25-0.75m; ext. H 0.15-0.75m). There is no visible fosse, but there is an entrance (Wth 1.2m) at WSW. Extensive testing (04E1244) in the field to the SE in 2004 failed to produce any related archaeological material (Morahan 2007c) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Sacred Heart Hospital, workhouse, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former workhouse complex, built 1842, possibly to plan by George Wilkinson, now occupied by the Western Health Board. Comprising workhouse, fever hospital, workhouse master's house and ancillary buildings. Detached H-plan with thirteen-bay two-storey main block, with projecting two-bay three-storey double gable-fronted bays. Abutting T-plan building to rear, incorporating seven-bay chapel. Detached three-bay two-storey gable-fronted fever hospital to north east with attic and with pedimented façade. Detached five-bay two-storey workhouse master's house to west of workhouse with slightly-advanced gable-fronted end bays, arcaded central entrance bays with gablets over and with date plaque. Modern extension to south of workhouse. Detached eight-bay two-storey ancillary building to north-west of workhouse. Pitched slated roofs throughout with rendered, cut stone and red brick chimneystacks. Random coursed limestone walls with plinths and tooled quoins, raised to fever hospital and with string course to master's house. Timber sash and casement windows with stone sills and tooled stone surrounds with block-and-start surrounds to fever hospital. Some remaining stained glass windows remaining to chapel. Projecting gabled entrance porch to workhouse with carved bargeboards and with pointed-arched timber and glazed door. Recessed timber and glazed double doors to master's house, flanked by windows and with arcaded area to front. Famine memorial site to south of workhouse masters house comprising statue by Maurice Hanlon and Elizabeth McLoughlin with bellcote and grave marker. Complex partially bounded to by random coursed limestone wall with soldiered coping.

• Saint Coman's Cemetery, graveyard/cemetery, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Roman Catholic cemetery, established 1912, with upright and recumbent grave markers of varying materials and designs, dating from 1912 to the present day. Memorials depicting the Stations of the Cross throughout the cemetery. Single-storey stone gate lodge to north east side of cemetery adjacent to entrance gate. Site bounded by concrete wall with two entrances to north, comprising rock-faced piers with cut stone caps, one with 1912 date plaque. Cast-iron gates to gate piers flanked by railings surmounting stone plinth. Secondary gates have chamfered rock-faced piers with decorative ctone caps.

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 Ardsallagh Beg, 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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1401 (ZIP).

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 Ardsallagh Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ardsallagh Beg · Ard Salach Beag

Area

739,704 m² (73.97 ha, 182.78 acres)

Civil parish

Roscommon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober South

Electoral division

Roscommon Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,513 people lived in 1,881 households in the Roscommon Rural electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Ardsallagh More, Ballymartin More, Ballypheasan, Carrowroe, Slevinagee

Placenames

Ardsallagh Beg 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.