Roscrib West

Area

487,424 m² (48.74 ha, 120.44 acres)

Buildings

10 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 2,715 m².

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

Roscrib West

Planning applications on this parcel

• 6 May 2026Conditional

  Construct an agricultural storage shed (total floor area 380 sq.m ) and carry out ancillary site development works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660174

• 6 Jul 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a slatted cubicle shed and loose area with underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20207

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 4 recorded monuments.

• SL033-125 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a slight SE-facing slope. A slightly raised roughly circular area (48m N-S; 52m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.15m) ENE-SE and by a low discontinuous scarp elsewhere. Where the bank survives, the interior has been slightly raised to compensate for the hillslope. The interior is undulating and clear of overgrowth. The 'Red' Earl's Road (SL033-147----) is c. 20m to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL033-146 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the slight SE-facing slope of a drumlin. A roughly circular raised area (18m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a scarp with an inner lip and an external fosse. The scarp with the inner lip (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.05m) is evident WSW-SSE but is very degraded elsewhere. The fosse (D 0.15m) is evident only SSE-NW. The interior slopes slightly down to SE and is clear of overgrowth. A NW-SE field boundary crosses the S half of the interior, through the scarp at WSW and SSE. A relict field boundary (on a NNW-SSE axis) abuts the scarp at NNW where it turns at a right angle to extend in a straight line along the top of the scarp NW-NNE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL033-147 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  The Red Earl's Road, probably of medieval origin, linked the towns of Ballymote, Co. Sligo and Boyle, Co. Roscommon, by a route around the N and E sides of the Bricklieve Mountains (M. A. Timoney 1998, 155), a distance of c. 21km. It is said to have been built by Richard de Burgh, The Red Earl of Ulster, after the Norman conquest, to link his castle (SL033-092----) at Ballymote with Boyle Abbey (RO006-068005-), Co. Roscommon. The road traverses a number of townlands over a number of 6-inch sheets (OS 33: Bellanascarrow West/Roscrib East/Roscrib West/Ballinvoher; OS 34: Drumcormick/ Bricklieve/Tiraree; OS 40: Cloghoge Lower/Carrowkeel/Mullaghfarna/ Doonaveeragh/Knockroe/Cuilsheeghary More/Mountgaffeny/Ballinafad/Gortalough/ Ballaghboy/Cartron; OS 45: Ballaghboy/Cartron). Sections of the road are recorded under five records (SL033-147----; SL034-159----; SL040-023----; SL040-197----; SL040-190----) commencing at Ballymote and following the route E and then S to the county boundary with Roscommon. Only sections of the road are indicated on the 1914 and 1941 OS 6-inch maps even though it was, of course, continuous. A possible link road between Bothar an Iarla Ruaid and Bothar an Corran (SL033-145----) goes from Greenan townland, around the S side of the Bricklieve Mountains, to Ballinafad. At its nearest point, Bothar an Corran is c. 0.8km to the SW. This section (SL033-147----) of the Red Earl's Road (L c. 2.5km) crosses undulating pasture with no obvious preference for ground conditions. Views vary along the route according to the terrain. It has been replaced by a modern tarred road (Wth 12-15m), bounded by earthen banks or stone walls, where it passes through the townlands of Bellanascarrow East and Roscrib West as far as the rath (SL033-125----) which is c. 20m to the N of the road in Roscrib East. To the E of this rath the road extends cross-country through Ballinvoher, following a large field boundary on its N side and is also visible in sections as a band of dark grass (Wth 6m). For the remainder of this section the road is beneath a disused lane (Wth 8-10m). According to local information, it continued to the W under a modern lane to meet the main road to the W of the Presbyterian Church at Graniamore. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of revision: 1 June 2011

• SL033-205 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying wet pasture. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 267-8) as a dark circular cropmark (diam. c. 60m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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 moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1106 (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.

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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.