Rathnarrow (O'Hara)

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathnarrow (O'Hara), from 2,714 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) to 321,399 m² (32.14 ha, 79.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Rathnarrow (O'Hara) 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 Rathnarrow (O'Hara) 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 Rathnarrow (O'Hara).

Recorded monuments

• SL026-111 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise, in undulating pasture. A circular platform (int. diam. 30m) enclosed on top by an inner earthen bank and at its base by a fosse and outer bank. The inner bank (Wth 6.5m; int. H 1.1m) is most substantial along the S arc where the bank and platform are 5m above ground level. Along the N arc, the bank is c. 2m above ground level. The fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.6m) is best evident along the E and N arcs and is waterlogged. The outer bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.3m) is evident all round but is most substantial along the E arc. The entrance (Wth 2.5m) is at E with a causeway and a ramp (Wth 3m) which curves in a northerly direction across the fosse to the exterior. Some trees and bushes grow on the external side of the inner bank and on the platform. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL026-117 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise, in undulating pasture. A raised circular area (int. diam. 22.5m) enclosed by an earthen bank and an external fosse. The bank (Wth 3m; int. H 1.2m; ext. c. H 2m) has bushes growing along its E and S arcs. The entrance (Wth 2.5m) is at E with a causeway and ramp (max. Wth 3m, narrowing to 2m at the entrance) across the fosse. The fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.4m) has been widened due to quarrying along the N arc. The interior is mostly clear of overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL026-118 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture, at the N end of a ridge. A raised oval area (int. diam. 30m N-S; 35m E-W), truncated SE-SW by the townland boundary between Rathnarrow and Ballynacarrow South, defined by the remains of an earthen bank. The bank is mostly levelled but is evident along the E arc (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.2m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathnarrow (O'Hara).

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 Rathnarrow (O'Hara), 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 Rathnarrow (O'Hara).

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 Rathnarrow (O'Hara) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Rathnarrow (O'Hara) · Ráth an Arbha (O'Hara)

Area

1,147,561 m² (114.76 ha, 283.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kilvarnet, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Annagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

200 people lived in 74 households in the Annagh electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymurray, Ballynacarrow North, Ballynacarrow South, Carrowntawy, Ranaghan More, Rathnarrow (Brett)

Placenames

Rathnarrow (O'Hara) 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.