Scardaun

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scardaun, from 2,236 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 213,465 m² (21.35 ha, 52.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Scardaun 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.

• 11 Mar 2024Conditional

  Permission to (i) demolish existing rear extension (ii) to construct new rear extension and front porch and (iii) to upgrade septic tank system and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460119

• 1 Sept 2022Refused

  Permission to construct domestic dwelling house, along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22471

• 26 Aug 2022N/a

  Permission to construct domestic dwelling house, along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22460

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 Scardaun.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Scardaun.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's National School, school, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former national school, built c.1900, with entrance porch to rear elevation providing separate entrances to each classroom. Pitched slate roof with ashlar chimneystacks, roof vents and decorative bargeboards. Random coursed limestone walls with limestone quoins. Irish name plaque to entrance porch. Square-headed window openings with yellow brick surrounds, concrete sills and timber sash windows. Timber battened doors with yellow brick surrounds to entrance porch. Concrete boundary wall to site.

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 Scardaun, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1372 (ZIP).

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

Name

Scardaun

Area

811,449 m² (81.14 ha, 200.51 acres)

Civil parish

Athleague, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Athleague East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

510 people lived in 184 households in the Athleague East electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrineel, Knockadangan, Knockmeane, Lisnalannow, Tromaun

Placenames

Scardaun 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.