Ross Beg

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ross Beg, from 60 m² to 69,704 m² (6.97 ha, 17.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ross Beg 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.

• 22 Sept 2026N/a

  Retention permission to retain site boundaries as constructed, which differ from the site boundaries previously granted under Planning Ref. PD/07/1417, and all ancillary site development works at Ross Beg, Elphin, Co. Roscommon, F45 DH28.

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660494

• 5 Jun 2026Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain as constructed dwelling house and domestic garage with all ancillary site development works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660278

• 26 Nov 2025N/a

  Permission to construct domestic dwelling house, new treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560557

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 Ross Beg.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a shelf at the W end of an E-W valley. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 33.6m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.2m) SW-NW and a scarp (H 0.3m at E to 1.4m at N) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth 3m) is at SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the top of the N-facing slope of an E-W ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 36m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m) NW-E, but it is truncated by a N-S field bank at W and an E-W field bank at S. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO022-041----) is c. 150m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of an E-W ridge. It is described as 'Lissabully' on the OS 6-inch maps. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 47.5m N-S; 47.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 1.8-2m generally to 3.1m at W) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.7m) WNW-NE. This is separated by a complete rounded fosse (Wth of top 8-9m; Wth of base 3.5-4m; D 0.5-1.3) from an outer bank (Wth 1.5-3.3m; H 0.3m) that survives ENE-S-WNW (max. ext. diam. 71m E-W). There is a widened entrance (Wth 7m), but no causeway, at ENE. Rath (RO022-040----) is c. 150m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-042001 Enclosure
  Description

  On a NW-SE spur at the bottom of the S-facing slope at the E end of an E-W ridge. It is described as 'Lismanmoon' on the OS 6-inch maps. Subcircular grass-covered platform (dims 25m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown scarp (H 0.8m at SE to 2m at SW) N-E-W, with an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.9m) on the perimeter W-N, across the neck of the spur. There is a berm (Wth 5-8m) at the base of the scarp N-E and S-NW, and a modernised entrance (Wth 4.4m) at NW. At the centre is a grass-covered cairn (RO022-042002-) (dims 10.5m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW; H 0.3-0.4m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-042002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  On a NW-SE spur at the bottom of the S-facing slope of an E-W ridge, and at the centre of enclosure (RO022-042001-). Circular grass-covered cairn (diam. 10.5m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW; H 0.3-0.4m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-164 Mound
  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 rough pasture and meadow grass on a level landscape. This is a slightly raised, grass and rush-covered circular area (diam. c. 16m N-S; c. 15m E-W; H 0.2m), with no distinguishing features. It may be natural. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 5 August, 2016

• RO022-168 Ringfort - rath
  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 located in rough pasture on a low E-W ridge. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 29m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a scarp that increases from NE (at E: Wth 3m; H 0.4m) around to SW (at: S: Wth 6m; H 1.05m). There is no visible fosse or an identifiable original entrance, but it is truncated by an E-W field bank at N and a N-S field bank at W. 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 Ross Beg.

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 Ross Beg, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ross Beg · An Ros Beag

Area

1,109,359 m² (110.94 ha, 274.13 acres)

Civil parish

Elphin, 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

Gortnacrannagh, Killeen West, Lisnagard, Ross More East, Ross More West, Runnaruag

Placenames

Ross Beg 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.