Ramooney

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ramooney, from 2,481 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 129,726 m² (12.97 ha, 32.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.

• C6Enterprise and Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Sept 2024Conditional

  1.Construction of a slatted/dry bedded agricultural shed, 2. construction of a machinery storage shed, 3. retention of the existing 2 number dry bedded agricultural sheds on site and all ancillary works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2460184

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976

Recorded monuments

• LE011-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a small drumlin on the floor of the Bonet River valley. Grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 24.5m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a steep-sided, round-topped bank of earth and stone (at S: Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.15m), reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m) at E and W. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE011-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low drumlin with the E-W Owenmore River c. 120m to the N. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 24m E-W; 22.9m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1m) which is separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4.55m) from an outer bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.45m). Field banks were superimposed on the E part of the monument, and the enclosing elements are reduced to a scarp NE-E. 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE011-020 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Located on the W-facing slope of a hill. Overgrown circular area (int. diam. 24.5m N-S; 23.5m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.8m; H 0.2-0.3m) reduced to a scarp at W. 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE011-021 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on top a natural rise on the NW-facing slope of a hill. Grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims. 20.5m E-W; 17.1m N-S) defined by a grass-covered and overgrown stone spread (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.85m) with the intermittently visible facing-stones of a wall (Wth 1.1m). The entrance (Wth 1.9m) is at ENE and the perimeter at E forms the townland boundary with Tullyskeherny. Cashel (LE011-022----) is c. 50m to the S. 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE011-022 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Located on a NW-facing slope. This is a grass and reed-covered circular area (int. diam. 24m N-S; 22.5m E-W) defined by a grass- and overgrown covered stone spread (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.8m) reduced to a scarp at NW. The entrance (Wth 1.1m) is at N and the perimeter at E forms the townland boundary with Tullyskeherny. Cashel (LE011-021----) is c. 50m to the N. 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ramooney.

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 Ramooney, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1394 (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 Ramooney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Ramooney · Ráth Maonaigh

Area

624,328 m² (62.43 ha, 154.27 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonclare, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Manorhamilton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,064 people lived in 854 households in the Manorhamilton electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonclare, Donagh More, Manorhamilton, Ross, Tawnymanus, Tuckmillpark, Tullyskeherny

Placenames

Ramooney 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.