Gortnacrannagh

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnacrannagh, from 68 m² to 377,038 m² (37.7 ha, 93.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Gortnacrannagh 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 Feb 2018Conditional

  for the following development: To construct a new 4 bay double sided Slatted Sheep Shed and also a new Cattle Handling Pen, together with all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1858

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 Gortnacrannagh.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-031001 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a small arc of hachures only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the W edge of a small N-S ravine (Wth c. 30m; D c. 3m; L c. 50m). Subrectangular grass and thistle-covered area (dims 17m N-S; 9m E-W), which probably represents modern disturbance, backing onto the ravine. Standing stone (RO022-031003-) is c. 15m to the SE in the floor of the ravine. Rath (RO028----) is c. 190m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-031003 Standing stone
  Description

  On the floor of a small N-S ravine (Wth c. 30m; D c. 3m; L c. 50m) in reclaimed pasture. A bulbous stone (dims 0.7m N-S; 0.5m E-W; H 1.05m) is set into the ground. Enclosure (RO022-031001-) is on higher ground c. 15m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a D-shaped embanked feature (ext. dims c. 40m N-S; c. 25m E-W) truncated by a N-S field bank at E on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a circular feature overlain by a N-S field bank on the 1927 ed. It is situated on a shelf of a NW-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 30m N-S; c. 15m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 5m; max. D 0.2m) S-W. It is cut by a N-S field wall and no archaeological feature is visible E of this. Rath (RO022-033----) is c. 150m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 10 May 2018

• RO022-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight NW-SE ridge. Circular grass and reed-covered area (diam. 26.8m NNW-SSE; 26.4m ENE-WSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.5-0.8m), which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m) S-W, and a fosse (Wth of top 4.7m; Wth of base 2.4m; max. D 0.4m) ESE-WSW. There is an entrance (Wth 2m) at ESE. A flat-topped grass-covered mound (diam. of base 6m; H 0.4m) against the inside of the perimeter at NW may be spoil from shallow quarries in the E of the interior. Rath (RO022-032----) is c. 150m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise at the E end of a broad E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered area (33.4m N-S; 32.3m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-3.7m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.9-1.1m) SW-N-ENE, with a fosse (Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 2.4m; D 0.1m) W-NNW. The perimeter is defined by a scarp (H 0.8m) S-SW, but cannot be traced elsewhere. There are entrances at NNW (Wth 2.4m) and NNE (Wth 3m), and an E-W farm track overlies the S part of the monument. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-036 Pitfield
  Description

  Visible on aerial photograph (ACAP: V206/54, 53), and situated on the S-facing slope of a broad E-W ridge. An area of c. 3 ha (c. 7 acres) has a few shallow pits (dims c. 10m x c. 2m) generally aligned E-W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-167 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  First identified in an unpublished archaeological LiDAR report (Davis, 2015) and unpublished archaeo-geophysical report (Bonsall & Gimson 2015) commissioned by Roscommon County Council as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the N5 Ballaghaderreen - Scramoge road development. It is located on a gentle NE-facing slope. While the LiDAR image shows a small circular feature that might be surrounded by a bank (Davis 2015, 116, No. 45.4) there is no surface indication of an antiquity. The area has also been tested archaeologically (Licence 15E0588) by Aidan O’Connell, who identified two linear features likely to be furrows and an isolated sub-oval pit (dims 1.7m E-W; 1.45m N-S; D 0.13m) (O’Connell, forthcoming). Compiled by : Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 5 August, 2016

• RO022-169 Fulacht fia
  Description

  First identified in an unpublished archaeological LiDAR report (Davis, 2015) commissioned by Roscommon County Council as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the N5 Ballaghaderreen - Scramoge road development. It is situated in pasture at the bottom of a S-facing slope with a small W-E stream c. 18m to the S. This is a low, grass-covered and horseshoe-shaped mound (dims 11.5m N-S; 8m E-W; max. H 0.2m), which curves around an opening (dims 4m N-S; 2.2m E-W) at S. However, a composition of burnt stone material cannot be confirmed. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 5 August, 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortnacrannagh, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortnacrannagh

Area

1,317,725 m² (131.77 ha, 325.62 acres)

Civil parish

Shankill, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Rossmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

169 people lived in 58 households in the Rossmore electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cherryfield or Drishagan, Creeve, Killeen West, Ross Beg, Runnaruag, Shankill

Placenames

Gortnacrannagh 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.