Ratallen

120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ratallen, from 17 m² to 229,019 m² (22.9 ha, 56.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ratallen 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.

• 17 Apr 2024Conditional

  Permission for 1. The construction of a four-bay dry shed extension to an existing slatted shed, which will be used to store feedstuff and machinery 2. To roof an existing animal holding yard, which contains a crush together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2461

• 31 Dec 2018Conditional

  Permission for Retention and completion of unfinished house, garage and site entrance, at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18655

• 3 Dec 2018N/a

  Permission for Retention and completion of unfinished house, garage and site entrance at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 18594

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 Ratallen.

Recorded monuments

• RO010-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the summit of a small ENE-WSW ridge, towards the E end. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 5-5.5m; int. H 0.4-0.95m; ext. H 2.1-2.8m) reduced to a scarp (H 1.5m) WNW-NNW, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 8.7m; Wth of base 5.5m; D 0.45-0.8m) WSW-NNW. The entrance (Wth 3.4m) is at SE. There is a quarry outside the bank N-ENE, and modern field banks radiate from the perimeter at ENE, SW and NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-135 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated in a slight hollow in a gently undulating landscape with a small E-W stream that forms the townland boundary with Runnaboll c. 14m to the S. This was discovered in advance archaeological testing (12E0264) for a realignment of the N61 Boyle – Tulsk road when it was visible as a low mound in the landscape and set aside for resolution as Ratallen 1 (Bayley 2012). It was completely excavated (13E0126) in May 2013 and consisted of a spread of burnt and broken stone (dims c. 11.2m E-W; c. 7m N-S; max. T 0.47m) with a slight indentation at N where the primary trough, a wood-based rectangular cut (dims 1.65m N-S; 1.1m E-W; D 0.1m) was overlain directly by a secondary trough, which was an oval cut (dims 2m N-S; 1.65m E-W; D 0.1m) with a wood-lined base. (Delaney 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 December, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ratallen, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ratallen

Area

2,899,766 m² (289.98 ha, 716.55 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolagh, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Kilmacumsy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

473 people lived in 194 households in the Kilmacumsy/kilcolagh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigeencarragh, Croghan, Kilcolagh, Killappoge, Knocknafushoga, Lackan, Portobello, Runnaboll

Placenames

Ratallen 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.