Charlestown

Area

697,915 m² (69.79 ha, 172.46 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Charlestown

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 5 recorded monuments.

• LE031-097 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the W bank of a S-N portion of the River Shannon where it flows N from Jamestown. This is an overgrown D-shaped area (int. dims 41m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6-7m; int. H 0.6-1.2m; ext. H 1.1-2m) and an outer fosse S-W-N, but the fosse is best preserved at N (Wth of top 10m; Wth of base 2.5m; ext. D 0.6m). The bank and fosse back on to the river at E but stop c. 10m from it. The E edge of the interior is formed by a distinct scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.4m), the result of erosion caused by flooding. The fosse is slightly truncated by a N-S road at W and has been recut as a drain at S. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 17 October 2019

• RO011-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular feature (diam. c. 20m). Situated at the W edge of a low shelf with a W-E section of River Shannon c. 100m to the N, it is now planted with mature coniferous trees within a forest. It is a circular area (diam. 27.2m E-W; 26.7m N-S) defined by a slight bank at N (Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m) and S (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m), with traces of a fosse (Wth of base 1.7-2m) SE-SSW, and by a scarp (H 0.7-1m) elsewhere. The probable entrance (Wth of base 1.8m) is at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 8 June 2015

• RO011-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an arc of hachures (C c. 50m) N-E-S. On a gentle SW-facing slope with a SE-NW section of the River Shannon, c. 150m to the SW. An earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. 0.3-0.7m; ext. H 1.2m) survives NE-SE in a coniferous forest (C c. 30m). There is no visible evidence of a fosse or of the continuation of the perimeter. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO012-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope in a loop of the River Shannon which is c. 550m to the SW and c. 330m to the NE. Circular overgrown area which remains unplanted in a coniferous forest (diam. c. 50m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.4-1m; ext. H 1.4-2m). There is no recognisable fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO012-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise on the W bank of a N-S section of the River Shannon with the stream immediately to the E. It was first identified by S. Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is now a D-shaped area that remained unplanted within a coniferous forest but is now covered in mixed woodland. It is a D-shaped area (dims 37m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.3-5.1m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 1.5-1.6m) SSE-W-N with E-W scarps (H c. 1-1.5m) at N and S that extend to the river bank. There is an outer fosse (Wth of top 6.4-6.7m; Wth of base 2-2.7m; ext. D 0.4-0.5m) SW-N. The W part of the interior is level but the E part slopes down to the river bank and was probably damaged at some time. There is a wide, modern entrance at NW but the probable original entrance (Wth of base 2.2m) at SSE may have been widened. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 April, 2013 Amended: 15 April, 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.