Castleruby
Castleruby is a townland in the civil parish of Baslick, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 716700
- Area
- 28,297 m² (2.83 ha, 6.99 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Castleruby
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- RO027-023001 Castle - unclassified
Description
Located on a slight E-W ridge of rock outcrop at the bottom of a S-facing slope. Traditionally owned by a Ruby O'Conor, it was O'Conor Roe land into the seventeenth century (Gormley 1989, 89, 148). In 1641 land at Castlerew was owned by Hugh Morgagh Ó Connor Dunn, but by 1684 ownership had been transferred to Ellen and George Talbot, Countess of Fingal by Act of Settlement, c. 1662-84 (Simington 1949, 48), whose daughter Mary married Patrick Plunkett of Castleplunket (RO027-028001--) (Tiernan 2016). The castle is a rectangular area (ext. dims 15m N-S; 7.3m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2-3m; H 0.2m), which may be a house built by the Talbots on the site of an older O'Conor castle. This is at the centre of an area of c. 1.5 ha. (c. 4 acres) containing three small rectangular fields (RO027-023003-) (dims c. 40m x c. 30m) defined by low banks or scarps. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 11 August 2017
- RO027-023003 Field system
Description
On a slight E-W ridge of rock outcrop at the bottom of a S-facing slope. An area of c. 1.5 ha (c. 4 acres) surrounding castle (RO027-023001-) containing three small rectangular fields (dims c. 40m x c. 30m) defined by low banks or scarps. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 110.9 ha
- 274 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 28,647 m² (2.86 ha, 7.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castleruby, from 816 m² to 110,552 m² (11.06 ha, 27.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Castleruby 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Castleruby 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castleruby.
Recorded monuments
- RO027-021003 Barrow - unclassified
Description
Marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature (diam. c. 20m) and situated on the crest of a NW-SE ridge. Grass-covered and round-topped earthen mound which has a sub-rectangular base (dims 11.2m N-S; 11m E-W; H 1.6m at N to 2.4m at S) where some old field banks have been removed. The base of the mound is overlain by a N-S field bank at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO027-023001 Castle - unclassified
Description
Located on a slight E-W ridge of rock outcrop at the bottom of a S-facing slope. Traditionally owned by a Ruby O'Conor, it was O'Conor Roe land into the seventeenth century (Gormley 1989, 89, 148). In 1641 land at Castlerew was owned by Hugh Morgagh Ó Connor Dunn, but by 1684 ownership had been transferred to Ellen and George Talbot, Countess of Fingal by Act of Settlement, c. 1662-84 (Simington 1949, 48), whose daughter Mary married Patrick Plunkett of Castleplunket (RO027-028001--) (Tiernan 2016). The castle is a rectangular area (ext. dims 15m N-S; 7.3m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2-3m; H 0.2m), which may be a house built by the Talbots on the site of an older O'Conor castle. This is at the centre of an area of c. 1.5 ha. (c. 4 acres) containing three small rectangular fields (RO027-023003-) (dims c. 40m x c. 30m) defined by low banks or scarps. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 11 August 2017
- RO027-023003 Field system
Description
On a slight E-W ridge of rock outcrop at the bottom of a S-facing slope. An area of c. 1.5 ha (c. 4 acres) surrounding castle (RO027-023001-) containing three small rectangular fields (dims c. 40m x c. 30m) defined by low banks or scarps. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO027-055001 Enclosure
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope. What looks like it might have been an enclosure (diam. c. 30m) is visible on aerial photographs (OS 4, 20384-3) in the field system (RO027-055----), but the area is reclaimed and no feature is now visible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 28 July 2015
- RO027-055002 Enclosure
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope. What looks like an earthwork enclosure (diam. c. 70m) is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M, 82-3), although it may represent a number of small fields. The area is now reclaimed and no feature is visible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO027-055003 Field system
Description
On the floor of a WNW-ESE valley. Aerial photographs (GSIAP: M, 82-3) show a series of small fields (dims c. 30m x c. 20m) extending in a NE-SW line and covering c. 10 acres (c. 4 ha). They are no longer visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO027-068 Road - road/trackway
Description
A linear earthwork is visible in Castleruby on aerial photographs (ACP: V206/8) running parallel with the stone wall and townland boundary with Tonroe. Situated on the crest of an E-W ridge, extending W from the ceremonial enclosure (RO027-022---). No feature is visible at ground level in pasture but the cropmark of two ditch-features placed c. 10m apart can be seen running ESE from the enclosure (total L c. 500m) on OSI images c. 2010. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 24 July 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castleruby.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Castleruby, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castleruby.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Castleruby with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Castleruby
- Area
- 1,108,554 m² (110.86 ha, 273.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Baslick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Castleplunket, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 563 people lived in 208 households in the Castleplunket electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balloony, Carrowkeel, Drishaghaun West, Farranawillin, Gortnasillagh, Lissawaddy, Tonroe
- Placenames
- Castleruby 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.