Caldragh

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caldragh, from 42 m² to 85,492 m² (8.55 ha, 21.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Caldragh 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.

• 27 Feb 2020Conditional

  For (1) the demolition of an existing dwelling house (2) the demolition of 3 no. existing sheds (3) the construction of a new dwelling house (4) the installation of a sewage treatment unit and percolation area (5) along with connections to all site services and all associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2075

• 15 Jun 2018Conditional

  The development consists of: (a) The Retention of the change of use of an attached garage to residential use and all associated building alterations; (b) Retention of a constructed shed; (c) Retention of as constructed hobby shed at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18292

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 Caldragh.

Recorded monuments

• RO016-015001 Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular
  Description

  A monastery known as 'Ceall Braighe Uallaighe' was probably taken over by the Third Order of Regular Franciscans before 1487 when it was plundered by Aodh Rua O'Donnell (AFM vol. 4, 1153). There is no record of any structures or that it was a nunnery, or of its supression, but in 1582 60 acres belonging to the church was leased to a Bryan McDermot (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 269). There was a local tradition in the 19th century that it was a nunnery (O'Flanagan 1837, vol. 2, 1). Situated in a fold in an undulating landscape. Rectangular graveyard (RO016-015002-) (dims 55.5m ENE-WSW; 36.5m NNW-ESE) defined by masonry walls contains burials from the 18th to the 20th centuries. There is no visible evidence of a church or other structures. Field system (RO-016-015003-) is in the surrounding area. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO016-015002 Graveyard
  Description

  Rectangular graveyard (dims 55.5m ENE-WSW; 36.5m NNW-ESE) defined by masonry walls contains burials from the 18th to the 20th centuries. There is no visible evidence of a church or other structures. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO016-015003 Field system
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope around the church site (RO016-015001-). An area of c. 10 ha (c. 28 acres) containing field banks is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: AV1, 23, 24). These survive SW of the graveyard, consisting of a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 43m NE-SW; 27m NW-SE) defined by low banks, with fragments of other banks in the vicinity. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO016-051 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  On a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular, round-topped and grass-covered earthen mound (diam. 5.5m; H 0.75m at W to 1.2m at S) with traces of a kerb at SE. 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 Caldragh.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Caldragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Caldragh

Area

861,233 m² (86.12 ha, 212.82 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacumsy, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Lisgarve, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowcrin, Carrowkeel, Carrowmoneen, Carrowncaran, Cleenraugh, Martry, Runnaroddaun, Stonepark

Placenames

Caldragh 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.