Arraghan

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Arraghan, from 61 m² to 472,258 m² (47.23 ha, 116.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Arraghan 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 Arraghan 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Bellanagare Bog SAC 000592
• Special Protection Area: Bellanagare Bog SPA 004105
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bellanagare Bog 000592

Recorded monuments

• RO021-006001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (int. diam. 24m NNW-SSE) defined by a stone spread (Wth 2-2.6m; H 0.2-0.4m) with some facing stones. There is a tradition of use as a children's burial ground (RO021-006002-) (Gannon 1972) but there is no evidence of burial. It is situated in the N interior of rath (RO021-006003-) with a relict field wall running S from the perimeter to the edge of the rath. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-006002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope. There is a tradition of use of the interior of cashel (RO021-006001-) as a childrens burial ground (RO021-006002-) (Gannon 1972) but there is no evidence of burial. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-006003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (diam. 42m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m at N), and by a fosse (Wth of top 5m; int. D 1.2m; ext. D 0.3m) E-SW. There is no identifiable original entrance, and cashel (RO021-006001-) is situated in the N interior. 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 Arraghan.

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Arraghan

Area

1,399,085 m² (139.91 ha, 345.72 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcorkey, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Bellanagare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bellanagare electoral division: 693 people in 279 households; 85% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincool, Cashelnagole, Cornamucklagh and Falmore, Kilcorkey, Leitrim, Lugakeeran

Placenames

Arraghan 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.