Scregg

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scregg, from 279 m² to 155,417 m² (15.54 ha, 38.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Scregg 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Scregg in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Scregg.

Recorded monuments

• RO011-035 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a terrace overlooking lower ground to the N and E. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 28.5m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.3m at N to 4m at E; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.2m generally to 0.8m at E). There is no visible entrance but there is an outer berm (Wth 1.5-3m) defined by the natural slope (H up to 3m) N-SE and by a scarp (H 0.6m) elsewhere. There is a shallow quarry (D 0.3m) inside the perimeter E-S-W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 29.2m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5-2.8m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.5-0.6m) ENE-SE and a scarp (H 0.55m at N to 0.8m at W) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance, and a field bank circumscribes the perimeter at SE. Rath (RO011-037----) is c. 130m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 38.5m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at WSW: Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m; at N: Wth 6.7m; int. H 1.65m; ext. H 1.65m) incorporated in a field bank and hedge WSW-N and a slight scarp (H 0.1-0.4m) elsewhere, with an outer, partly quarried fosse (Wth 4-5m; D 0.6m) W-NNW. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO011-036----) is c. 130m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-169 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on improved pasture in a fairly level landsacpe. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 36m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a complete but low scarp (at SSE: Wth 1.4m; H 0.2m), and an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.2m; Wth of base 2.4m; D 0.2m) ESE-S-N. There is a possible causewayed entrance (Wth c. 4.5m) at NNW, where there is a dip in the lip of the scarp and the slight depression of the fosse is not traceable. The interior is slightly dished. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 May 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1424 (ZIP).

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

Name

Scregg

Area

706,425 m² (70.64 ha, 174.56 acres)

Civil parish

Killukin (Boyle Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Danesfort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Danesfort electoral division: 963 people in 378 households; 60% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumlion, Killukin, Knockadalteen, Knockananima, Lodge, Mullaghmore

Placenames

Scregg 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.