Castlecoote

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlecoote, from 29 m² to 147,389 m² (14.74 ha, 36.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Castlecoote 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.

• 9 May 2017Conditional

  To construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17209

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 Castlecoote.

Recorded monuments

• RO039-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) with trees on the 1837 and 1927 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle NE-facing slope c. 450m SW of Castlecoote fortified house (RO039-061002-). It is not visible at ground level in pasture, but can be seen as a vegetation mark (diam. c. 50m) on aerial photographs (ASIAP (291) 18, 19) and on OSI aerial images (2005). Earthwork (RO039-060----) is c. 70m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-060 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 40-45m) with trees on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle SE-facing slope c. 450m SW of Castlecoote fortified house (RO039-061002-). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Ringfort (RO039-059----) is c. 70m to the NNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-061001 House - fortified house
  Description

  Ballymageraghty, a territory of the Mageraghty chieftains, was leased from the Crown in 1577 by Sir Nicholas Malby, president of Connaught, and granted to him in 1579. He built a house here, described as a castle or stone fortalice with a watermill (RO039-061004-) in 1584 (Connellan 1962-3, 4) when it was tenanted by Thomas Ruttledge (Cronin 1980, 112). Situated on a rise on the S bank of a W-E section of the River Suck at a point where the river turns S c. 60m to the E. (Conboy 1988) Sections of two hexagonal towers (int. dim. c. 12m) survive, each consisting of one wall surviving complete to four storeys with a fireplace at each floor, and parts of the adjacent walls. The towers would have been c. 30m apart, projecting E from the main house, of which nothing survives. When Sir Charles Coote acquired the land in 1616 he built a second fortified house (RO039-061002-) just to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-061002 House - fortified house
  Description

  Sir Charles Coote built a fortified house just W of the site of Malby's fortified house (RO039-061001-) sometime after 1616. It is situated on a rise on the S bank of a W-E section of the River Suck at a point where the river turns S c. 60m to the E. By c. 1636 Coote had built a bridge (RO039-061003-) crossing the Suck, E of the house, and the house withstood three assaults in the 1640s (Conboy 1988). An ice-house (RO039-061-011-) was added probably in the late 17th or early 18th century. The house is a rectangular structure (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 9m E-W) of two storeys over a basement and three bays with projecting, slightly rhomboid towers (dims c. 6m x c. 6m) of three stories at the NE and SE angles. It was re-styled in the 18th century with additions, especially on the N side, and it is still occupied. A bawn (RO039-061010-) (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 40m N-S) surrounded the house, but nothing remains of it apart from the NE and SE towers which were part of Malby's house, mirrored by a featureless and poorly built hexagonal tower at the NW angle. The foundations of the SW tower, and the W wall (T c. 1.6m) of the bawn were uncovered c. 1960 (Connellan 1962-3). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-061003 Bridge
  Description

  Sir Charles Coote built a fortified house (RO039-061002-) at the site of Malby's house (RO039-061001-) after 1616, and between then and c. 1636, the date of the Strafford map where it is marked (Simington 1949), a bridge was built from the house across the River Suck at a point where the W-E section of the river has turned S. It is also marked on Petty's map (1683) of Athlone North barony. The bridge would have been c. 60m long, and a section on the W bank (L 10.4m; Wth 5m; max. H 3.6m) with portions of the parapet and two broken arches (Wth c. 4m) survives. Archaeological testing (10E0293) for a new bridge just 5m to the N produced no related archaeological material, but evidence of the original bridge abutments on both sides of the river was recorded (McQuade 2010; 2013). However, further monitoring revealed no other archaeological or architectural features (Henry 2012). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 September 2012

• RO039-061004 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  A watermill is listed in inquisitions of 1584 and 1611 (Connellan 1962-3, 4). A millrace departed from the River Suck just W of the point where the W-E section of the river turns S. It ran S (L c. 200m) at the base of the bluff on which the fortified houses (RO039-061001-; RO039-061002-) were built. It was widened in the 18th century and survives (Wth c. 5m) revetted with stone walls where it passes Castlecoote House (L c. 40m), but defined by an eathen bank (Wth 5m; H 1.5m) on the E side futher S. The mill would have been in Casltecoote village where the it was developed further in the 18th century and no evidence of an early structure survives. The widened millrace could have destroyed the most westerly arch of the bridge (RO039-061003-), and truncated the W side of the spherical chamber of the ice-house (RO039-0611-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-061008 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  In 1616 Sir Charles Coote was granted 'the castle, town and lands of Ballymacgeraghty. The 'town' probably refers to the townland. Although there was undoubtedly settlement around the castle and a watermill, it did not consititute a town or borough. Its location cannot be definitively identified but it was probably close to the fortified house the Malby had built (RO039-061001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-061009 Gatehouse
  Description

  A 'castle or stone fortilace' is mentioned in inquisitions of 1584 and 1611 (Connellan 1962-3, 4). This is the fortified house built by Malby (RO039-061001-), and while there is no literary or physical evidence that a gatehouse was at this site it is very safe to presume that there was one on the wall of the bawn (RO039-061010-), probably on the S side. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-061010 Bawn
  Description

  Sir Charles Coote built a fortified house (RO039-061002-) and bawn at the site of Malby's fortified house (RO039-061001-) after 1616. Situated on a rise on the S bank of the W-E River Suck at a point where the river turns S c. 60m to the E. The bawn (dims. c. 60m E-W; c. 40m N-S) surrounded the house, but nothing remains of it apart from the NE and SE towers which were part of Malby's house, mirrored by a featureless and poorly built hexagonal tower at the NW angle. The foundations of the SW tower and the W wall (T c. 1.6m) of the bawn were uncovered c. 1960 (Connellan 1962-3), and there is a well, recently conserved, ouside the NW angle of the bawn. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-061011 Icehouse
  Description

  Sir Charles Coote built a fortified house (RO039-061002-) at the site of Malby's fortified house (RO039-061001-) after 1616. By the time of the Strafford survey (1635-8) a bridge (RO039-061003-) crossing the Suck E of the house had been built since it is marked on the Strafford map of Athlone barony (Simington 1949). The ice-house was constructed probably in the late 17th or early 18th century on low-lying ground c. 10m S of the bridge. The base of a spherical chamber (int. diam. c. 4m) constructed of masonry (T 0.9m) survives with a vaulted rectangular chamber (int. dims 4.1m N-S; 2.8m E-W; present H 1.2m) on its S side which communicated with the ice-chamber by means of two hatches (Wth 0.5m; H 0.45m; L 1m). The mound has been removed, and the spherical chamber is truncated by the E side of the expanded mill-race (RO039-061004-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (ASIAP (291) 20-22), and situated on a knoll in an undulating landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 22.8m NE-SW; 20.3m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m at SE to 1m at NW) SE-W-NE and berm (Wth 2-3m) S-W-N, with a slight fosse (Wth c. 4m; D 0.1m) NE-SE. There is no identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Castlecoote House, country house, 1610–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey country house over raised basement, built c.1770, with single-bay flanking projecting wings from seventeenth-century fortified house of c.1630. Full-height bows to south and west elevations. Abutting two-storey block and ranges of stone outbuildings to north. Hipped replacement slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cut-stone coping and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined render to basement with limestone string course. Roughcast-rendered walls to upper storeys with cut-stone cornice and limestone quoins. Round-headed doorway with timber panelled door flanked by engaged Ionic columns supporting entablature surmounted by replacement fanlight, approached by flight of limestone steps. Square and round-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows. Oculus window to rear elevation. Ranges of eighteenth-century outbuildings to southwest of house. Derelict stable complex with random coursed stone walls and slate roof partially surrounding yard. Ruin of seventeenth-century castle tower to east of house. Well to northeast with recent opening. Garden wall of random coursed stone. Site bounded by River Suck to north and east. Rock-faced gate piers flanked by cast-iron pedestrian gates to entrance.

• Mill (water), 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay five-storey former corn mill, built c.1860, abutted by ruinous mid-twentieth-century structures including grain store. Now derelict. Pitched corrugated-asbestos roof. Random coursed stone to front and side elevations with tooled quoins, tooled eaves course and voussoirs to openings. Concrete ties projecting from façade. Brick cambered-arched and cut stone flat-arched window and door openings, now blocked up. Rear elevation rebuilt with concrete blocks after fire c.1965. Ancillary stone buildings to south have been remodelled. Possible remains of weir to river. Site is now used as a grain depot.

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 Castlecoote, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castlecoote · Baile Mhic Oireachtaigh

Area

2,148,901 m² (214.89 ha, 531.01 acres)

Civil parish

Fuerty, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Fuerty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

796 people lived in 283 households in the Fuerty electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bracklin, Cooly, Creemully and Aghagad Beg, Dunamon, Emlaghkeadew

Placenames

Castlecoote 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.