Rathbarna

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathbarna, from 283 m² to 146,671 m² (14.67 ha, 36.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Rathbarna 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.

• 23 Apr 2026Conditional

  Permission for proposed development which will consist of the renovation of a derelict single-storey dwelling house, along with the construction of an adjoining extension (c. 54m²) to the rear. The works will also include the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system, connection to services, and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660185

• 15 Aug 2025Conditional

  Permission for development which will consist of the renovation of a derelict single storey dwelling house and construction of adjoining extension (80.41m²), together with proprietary wastewater treatment system, connection to services and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560395

• 14 Jul 2025N/a

  Permission for development consisting of the renovation of a derelict single storey dwelling house and construction of adjoining extension (80.41m2), together with proprietary wastewater treatment system, connection to services and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560339

• 26 Sept 2023Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a detached single storey dwellinghouse and domestic garage, together with proprietary wastewater treatment system, connection to services and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360134

• 29 Mar 2023Refused

  Permission for the construction of a detached single storey dwelling house and domestic garage, together with proprietary wastewater treatment system, connection to services and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2398

• 4 Apr 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a new dwelling house and detached domestic garage, installation of packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17137

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 Rathbarna.

Recorded monuments

• RO027-012003 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  In the N interior of ceremonial enclosure (RO027-012001-). Grass-covered earthen mound (diam. of base 9-10m; H 0.6m at S to 1.2m generally), which had standing stone (RO027-012004-) on its summit (Knox 1911, 219, Fig. 4), but this is no longer visible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO027-012004 Standing stone
  Description

  On a W-facing slope. The barrow (RO027-014003-) at Rathra ceremonial enclosure (RO027-012001-) had the stump of a standing stone on its summit (Knox 1911, 219, Fig. 4) which is no longer visible. 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 Rathbarna.

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 Rathbarna, about 1 in 5 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathbarna

Area

446,662 m² (44.67 ha, 110.37 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeevin, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Castlereagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,268 people lived in 1,240 households in the Castlereagh electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowgarve, Mewlaghmore, Southpark Demesne

Placenames

Rathbarna 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.