Jamestown

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Jamestown, from 100 m² to 208,752 m² (20.88 ha, 51.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Jamestown 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.

• 5 Nov 2020Conditional

  for erection of new dwelling house with septic tank and percolation area and ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20459

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 Jamestown.

Recorded monuments

• RO044-081001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 56m E-W; 55m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earth and stone bank (Wth of base 4.5-7m; Wth of top 1-2m; int. H 0.9-1.15m; ext. H 1.7-2.5m) and hedge, and a rounded fosse surviving NNE-SE (Wth of top 7m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.8m) and SW-NW (Wth of top 7m; Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.25m). There is a house platform (RO044-081002-) (dims 8.5m E-W; 5.5m N-S; H 0.3m) at the centre and another (RO044-081003-) (dims 6.4m NE-SW; 4.4m NW-SE) defined by a fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.2m) inside the perimeter at SE. There is a widened entrance (Wth 4m) at NW. See the attached aerial image taken from the SW Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO044-081002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. There is a house platform (dims. 8.5m E-W; 5.5m N-S; H 0.3m) at the centre of rath (RO044-081001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO044-081003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. There is a house platform (dims 6.4m NE-SW; 4.4m NW-SE) defined by a fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.2m) inside the perimeter of rath (RO044-081001-) at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO044-082001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the crest of the NE-facing slope of a SE-NW spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 51.5m NE-SW; 47.2m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4-7m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 1.7-2m) with some bushes and a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.4-6.8m; Wth of base 2-3.2m; D 0.4-0.9m). There is an entrance (Wth 1.3m) and causeway at SSE. An outer bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.2m) SW-N-E departs from the outer edge of the fosse at E to join the outer bank of rath (RO044-082003-) which is 5m to the SE. There is a quarry (dims 18m NW-SE; 13m NE-SW; D 1.4m) outside the fosse at SW (max. ext. dims 66m NE-SW; 59m NW-SE). See the attached aerial view taken from the W with this monument in the foreground. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO044-082003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the crest of the NE-facing slope of a SE-NW spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33.5m NE-SW; 32.5m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.7-7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.2-1.8m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.5m) at SE, separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 6-8m; Wth of base 1.5-3m; D 0.65-1m) from an outer bank (Wth 3-3.5m; ext. H 0.25-0.75m). The entrance (Wth 1.8m) and causeway are at NE, and there are lazy beds in the interior (max. ext. dims 49.5m NE-SW; 47m NW-SE). Rath (RO044-082001-) is c. 5m to the NW. See the attached aerial view taken from the W with this monument in the background. 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 Jamestown.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Jamestown.

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

Name

Jamestown

Area

1,440,008 m² (144 ha, 355.83 acres)

Civil parish

Taghboy, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Taghboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Taghboy electoral division: 535 people in 177 households; 74% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownurlar, Cloghan, Curraghadoon, Liswilliam, Mullaghardagh

Placenames

Jamestown 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.