Rathcronan

117 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcronan, from 47 m² to 77,408 m² (7.74 ha, 19.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 49 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 37 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Industrial/Commercial/Warehousing (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1Strategic Industrial Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1Reservation Objective (Strategic reserve, White land)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Active open space)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Community facilities)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C1.1Industrial/Commercial/Warehousing (Commercial, retail)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Open space, park)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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 Rathcronan.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-056 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  At the SE end of a hillock, surrounded by marshy wet terrain from E-S-W, c. 90m to the S of the properties facing onto the main street of the medieval borough of Granard (LF010-055----) and 500m E of the motte and bailey (LF010-080001-) and possible medieval church (LF010-055001-). A raised almost circular area (c. 50m E-W; c. 48m N-S; H 1-1.8m) enclosed from SE-SSE-S and from SW-W-N by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 3m; H 0.2-1.8m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1 1.8m). The remains of a berm (Wth 6m; D 0.15m) from SW-W appear to indicate that the hillock was cut into and levelled to create the raised platform. There is no evidence of any enclosing fosse or of the original entrance. A livestock gap is visible in the S half. The wetland siting of this monument is atypical of a ringfort. Its location in the centre of the possible medieval borough suggests that it may be the site of an Anglo-Norman manor house or the fortified residence of a high-status family of the borough. However, it is very similar morphologically to the excavated ringfort (RO022-114003-) and tower house (LF022-114011-) at Tulsk, county Roscommon (Brady 2011, 309-10). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 March 2012

• LF010-082 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument has been levelled. Apart from a slight curve in the field boundary from NNE-E-SE, which presumably mirrors its circuit, it is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 January 2012

• LF010-125 Standing stone
  Description

  On a low rise in pasture. This low, narrow, roughly triangular-shaped limestone slab (H 1.16m; Wth 1.1m; T 0.24m) is aligned E-W. It is widest at the base where there are a number of small packing-stones. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 December 2012

• LF010-131 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland c. 285m to the SE of motte and bailey (LF010-080001-) and c. 165m SE of the hilltop enclosure (LF010-080002-). An archaeo-geophysical survey undertaken in 2006 in advance of a large housing development to the SSW of Granard town (LF010-055----) revealed anomalies. An extensive programme of trenching was undertaken later that year to reveal if any of these were of archaeological significance. Part of an enclosure was identified measuring c. 30m x c. 23m. Although there was no dating evidence, the excavator believed that, on the basis of ‘form and nature’, there was a strong possibility that it was of archaeological significance (Moore 2010, 304). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 6 February 2012

• LF010-132 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Circa 32m to the SE of a hilltop enclosure (LF010-080----). An extensive programme of archaeological trenching undertaken in 2006, in advance of a large housing development at Granard, revealed a series of three possible post-holes contained within an area 2m x 2m. Two of the post-holes (diam. 0.2m and 0.45m) were suboval in plan and one (diam. 0.13m) was subcircular. All were filled with homogenous mid-brown silty clay clearly discernible from the surrounding boulder clay. No dating material was obtained (Moore and Kiernan 2007, 34; Moore 2010, 304). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 25 February 2013

• LF011-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low hillock in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 and 1887 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised circular area (diam. c. 44m) enclosed by a much-degraded low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3m; H 0.45m max.) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 3.3m; D 0.2m). The N half has been levelled due to the construction of modern field boundaries but its outline is still identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, erected c. 1900, comprising fluted shaft on moulded base, cast-iron shelf/platform to base and having fluted domed capping with finial over. Pull lever now missing. Now disused. Located on footpath to the south of Granard.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, erected c. 1880, comprising a pair of rubble limestone gate piers on square-plan having cut stone capstones and a wrought-iron flat bar gate. Located adjacent to road to the south of Granard.

• Springlawn, gates/railings/walls, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of gateways serving Springlawn House (not in survey), erected c. 1870. Gateway to west comprises a pair of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having moulded cut limestone capstones and with double leaf cast-iron gates having trefoil finials over. Gateway flanked to either side by sweeping chamfered ashlar limestone plinth walls having cast-iron railings over with trefoil finials and terminated by ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having moulded cut limestone capstones over. Gateway to east comprises a pair of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having moulded necks and cut stone pyramidal capstones over and with double leaf cast-iron gates having trefoil finials over. Gateway flanked to the east by pedestrian entrance with gate pier (as above) and cast-iron gate. Roughcast rendered boundary walls between gateways having rendered plinth course and limestone coping over. Located to the northwest and northeast of Springlawn House and to the east of Granard.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey house, built c. 1850, having lean-to extension to the rear (south). One of a terrace of four along with the buildings adjacent to the east (not in survey). Pitched natural slate roof with (shared) rendered chimneystack to the east end. Roughcast rendered walls over rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings having two-over-two timber sliding sash windows, rendered reveals and painted cut limestone sills. Square-headed door opening to the east end of the main façade (north) with replacement timber panelled door and overlight. Road-fronted to the northeast end of Granard town centre. Gateway/lane to the southwest end having wrought-iron flat bar gate.

• Bank of Ireland, bank/financial institution, 1830–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey double-pile bank, built c. 1830 and extensively remodelled in 1933. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves and having rendered chimneystacks to either end (east and west). Painted rusticated/channelled rendered walls to ground floor, rendered lined-and-ruled walls to first and second floors. Moulded rendered string courses to second floor and at springing point of arches to ground floor window openings. Square-headed window openings to upper floors with four-over-eight timber sliding sash windows to second floor and eight-over-eight to first floor, all with limestone sills. Round-headed window openings to ground floor, set into slightly recessed round-headed panels, having render architrave surrounds to head with scrolled keystone detail over and having eight pane timber sliding sash windows with decorative joinery to heads. Round-headed door opening to the west end of front elevation (north) having render architrave surround to head with scrolled keystone detail over, timber panelled double-doors and a fanlight over with decorative timber joinery. Limestone step to entrance. Road-fronted to the east end of the centre of Granard town.

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey parochial house, built 1871-2, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated to accommodate alternative use. Hipped slate roof with roll moulded ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Camber- or segmental-headed central door opening with tiled step threshold, timber doorcase with paired panelled pilasters supporting ogee-detailed cornice, and moulded rendered surround framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

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 Rathcronan, about 1 in 20 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Rathcronan, Granard11 sales

Name

Rathcronan · Ráth Chrónáin

Area

811,623 m² (81.16 ha, 200.56 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Granard Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,268 people lived in 494 households in the Granard Urban electoral division. 47% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymaurice, Ballynacross, Carragh, Cartron, Granard, Grassyard, Higginstown, Teemore

Placenames

Rathcronan 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.