Faus

111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faus, from 177 m² to 152,277 m² (15.23 ha, 37.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Faus 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 Jun 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a new 4 bay slatted cattle shed, together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 24101

• 28 May 2024N/a

  Planning Permission to extend and renovate an existing dwelling house. The works will include: 1. The demolition of an existing extension and the construction of a new extension to the rear of the dwelling. 2. The removal of 2 no. existing chimneys. 3. The widening of 2 no. existing rear window openings and to construct a new window opening. 4. The construction of a new double-door opening, in the west gable elevation together with all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2487

• 14 May 2024N/a

  Permission to extend and renovate an existing dwelling house. The works will include 1. The construction of an extension to the rear of the dwelling 2.The removal of 2 no. existing chimneys 3. The widening of 2 no. existing rear window openings and to construct a new window opening 4. The construction of a new double-door opening, in the West gable elevation together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2476

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 Faus.

Recorded monuments

• RO010-042 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  At the W end of a slight E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 38.5m E-W; 36.5m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.7m at N to 4.2m at W; int. H 0.2m at S to 0.6m at N; ext. H 0.2m at S to 0.6m at W). A gap (Wth 4m) at S may be an enlarged original entrance. A N-S relict field wall, visible as a grass-covered stone spread (dims 15m N-S; 2m E-W; H 0.2m), overlies the N interior, and a modern drain skirts the perimeter at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the NE end of a low NE-SW ridge. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 34.5m N-S; 33.5m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 3-3.6m; int. H 0.2-0.45m; ext. H 0.55-0.8m), with an outer fosse (Wth of top 3m; Wth of base 2-2.5m; D 0.2m) S-W. There is no identifiable original entrance, but an ENE-WSW field bank and drain overlie the monument towards the perimeter at N. 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 Faus.

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 Faus, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Faus

Area

2,371,979 m² (237.2 ha, 586.13 acres)

Civil parish

Estersnow, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Croghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

416 people lived in 152 households in the Croghan electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardglass, Ardmore, Cavetown or Ballynahoogh, Derrylow, Enagh, Estersnow, Farranagalliagh, Lugnashammer, Rinn

Placenames

Faus 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.