Cherryfield or Drishagan

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cherryfield or Drishagan, from 565 m² to 120,665 m² (12.07 ha, 29.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Cherryfield or Drishagan 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.

• 15 May 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey rear extension, new domestic garage and upgrade existing domestic treatment system and carry out all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560226

• 16 Aug 2024N/a

  Permission to construct new domestic garage to the rear, along with the construction of a two storey rear extension and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460388

• 13 Aug 2024N/a

  Permission for the following 1. to construct new domestic garage to the rear, 2. to construct two storey rear extension and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460378

• 7 May 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system & percolation area, associated site development works & services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2475

• 3 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct an extension to the side of existing dwelling house at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18504

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 Cherryfield or Drishagan.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-044001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 27.6m WNW-ESE; 26.2m NNE-SSW) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 2.5-2.7m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.5-0.7m) and rush-covered fosse (Wth 1.5m), which is separated by a berm (Wth 1-2m) from the base of the bank WNW-N, the fosse being re-cut and quite wide (Wth 7m; int. D 0.6m; ext. D 0.3m) here. The modernised entrance (Wth 1.6m) is at N. The monument is enclosed by an outer earthen bank (Wth 2.5-3m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 0.3m) and outer fosse or rush-filled ditch (Wth 1-2m), except WNW-N where the rath fosse has been widened. This outer bank also encloses a rectangular annexe (RO022-044002-) (dims c. 28m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE) outside the rath to the SE. There is a record from 1980 of a field bank (RO022-044003-) extending N (L c. 30m) c. 20m N of the NE angle of the annexe (SMR file), but this feature does not survive. Rath (RO022-045----) is c. 200m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-044002 Enclosure
  Description

  The rath (RO022-044001-) is enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m-3m; int. H 0.1m-0.4m; ext. H 0.3m) and outer fosse or rush-filled ditch (Wth 1m-2m), except WNW-N where the rath fosse has been widened. This outer bank also enclose a rectangular, grass-covered annexe (dims c. 28m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE) outside the rath to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-044003 Field boundary
  Description

  On a rise in a low-lying undulating landscape. There is a record from 1980 of a field bank (RO022-044003-) extending N (L c. 30m) c. 20m N of the NE angle of the annexe (RO022-044002-) associated with rath (RO022-044001-) (SMR file), but it does not survive. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of a rise in a low-lying undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 29m N-S; 27.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.4m at S to 2.3m at N), with a fosse (Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.4m) WNW-N where it is protected by an E-W field bank. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO022-044001-) is c. 200m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cherryfield or Drishagan.

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 Cherryfield or Drishagan, about 1 in 10 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 low, low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cherryfield or Drishagan.

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 Cherryfield or Drishagan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Cherryfield or Drishagan

Area

706,844 m² (70.68 ha, 174.66 acres)

Civil parish

Shankill, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Elphin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

893 people lived in 371 households in the Elphin electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caldrymoran, Cloonboyoge, Gortnacrannagh, Killeen West, Lurgan, Shankill

Placenames

Cherryfield or Drishagan 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.