Rathleg

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathleg, from 112 m² to 121,618 m² (12.16 ha, 30.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Rathleg 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.

• 13 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission for development which will consist of the extension of the operational lifespan of a solar farm permitted by Roscommon County Council under Planning Register Ref. PD/17/295 from 30 No. years as permitted to 40 No. years. This proposed extension of the operational lifespan will consist of a material change in the use of the land from agricultural use to solar farm use and will maintain the permitted solar farm structures on site during the extended operational period from 30 to 40 years at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360172

• 22 Aug 2023N/a

  Permission for development consisting of the extension of the operational lifespan of a solar farm permitted by Roscommon County Council under Planning Register Ref. PD/17/295 from 30 No. years as permitted (by reason of condition No. 20 of permission Planning Register Ref. PD/17/295) to 40 No. years at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360066

• 3 Aug 2023N/a

  Planning permission for development consisting of the extension of the operational lifespan of a solar farm permitted by Roscommon County Council under planning register Ref. PD/17/29 from 30 No. years as permitted (by reason of condition No.20 of permission planning register Ref. PD/17/295) to 40 No. years at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23331

• 3 Aug 2023Conditional

  Planning permission for development consisting of the replacement of a permitted single storey terminal electrical station and separate permitted switchgear enclosure (both previously permitted as part of a solar farm permission by Roscommon County Council under Reg. Ref. PD/17/295) with 1 no. proposed single storey 20KV substation building on the site of the previously permitted terminal station. The development also includes ancillary revisions to the access track and security gate adjacent to the substation (as previously permitted under Reg. Ref. PD/17/295) comprising of a localised alteration to the alignment of the track and a slight repositioning of the gate at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23332

• 29 May 2023N/a

  Permission for the construction of an extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house together with the demolition of existing sun room, minor elevation changes, upgrade works to existing effluent treatment system and all ancillary developments at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23222

• 9 May 2023N/a

  Permission for the construction of an extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house together with minor elevation changes, upgrade works to existing effluent treatment system and all ancillary developments at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23184

• 19 Dec 2022Conditional

  Retention Permission to: (1) Retain milking parlour shed; (2) Retain roofed dung stead; (3) Retain and complete slatted shed with feeding passage and cow cubicle accommodation and associated site works; (4) PERMISSION to roof existing cow collection yard at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 22672

• 30 Jun 2017Conditional

  development at a site within the townland of Rathleg, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon. The application is for a 10 year planning permission. The development will consist of A Solar Farm with an export capacity of approximately 4.2 MVA comprising Photovoltaic Panels on ground mounted frames, an enclosed single storey ESB Terminal Station, a single storey switchgear enclosure with storage contained, 4 No. single storey inverter stations, ducting & underground electrical cabling, perimeter fencing mounted CCTV cameras, provision of new access to public road as well as internal access track, and all associated site development and landscaping works.

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17295

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 Rathleg.

Recorded monuments

• RO027-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a low-lying position at the S edge of a basin. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 41.6m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.3m at E to 6.8m at N; int. H 0.3m at N to 0.7m at S; ext. H 1.7-2.2m), which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.6m) NW-NE. This is separated by a fosse (Wth of top 8.2-10.3m; Wth of base 3.6-5m; D 1-1.6m) from an earthen bank (Wth 3.3-4.8m; ext. H 0.4-0.6m) with some bushes, which is missing NE-SE. A second fosse (Wth of top 7-8.2m; Wth of base 2.5-5m; D 0.6-1.1m) separates this middle bank from an outer bank (Wth 6.5-8m; ext. H 0.1-0.8m) with some bushes which has been removed SE-S (max. ext. diam. 84m N-S; 83m E-W). The entrance through the inner (Wth 1.3m), middle (Wth 4.5m) and outer banks (Wth 5m) is at SE. See the attached aerial image taken from the SW. 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 Rathleg.

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 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_1113 (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 Rathleg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Rathleg

Area

703,574 m² (70.36 ha, 173.86 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeevin, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Castlereagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlereagh electoral division: 3,268 people in 1,240 households; 64% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardass, Demesne, Knockmurry, Rampark, Southpark Demesne, Termon More

Placenames

Rathleg 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.