Araghty

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Araghty, from 16 m² to 211,456 m² (21.15 ha, 52.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Araghty 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.

• 16 Feb 2021Conditional

  for erection of dwelling house and domestic garage with septic tank and percolation area and ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2188

• 17 May 2019Refused

  for the erection of a single-storey dwelling house, garage and domestic wastewater treatment plant and percolation area including all other ancillary site works for site located at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19264

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
• Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222

Recorded monuments

• RO041-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope. Circular grass and scrub-covered platform (diam. 35.6m N-S; 33.1m E-W) defined by an overgrown scarp (H 0.5-0.8m) SW-W-NE, with an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.75m) on the perimeter separated by a berm (Wth 3m) from an outer bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.2m) NE-E. A stone wall defines the perimeter E-SW, but there is a quarry inside it, and a NE-SW field wall overlies the interior towards the perimeter at NW. There is an entrance (Wth 6m) at E, and a modern entrance at SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the E end of a low WNW-ESE ridge. Described in 1964 as a D-shaped area (dims c. 40m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H c. 1.5m) which had been straightened by a road bank and replaced by a stone wall at NE and with slight traces of a fosse at NW (SMR file). It has been removed since 1964 and is no longer visible in reclaimed pasture. Rath (RO041-071001-) is c. 95m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-071001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1928 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an arc (C c. 30m) of hachures N-E, and situated on a gentle SW-facing slope at the E end of a low WNW-ESE ridge. This is a D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (dims 30m NNE-SSW; 30m WNW-ESE) defined by an overgrown flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 1.5m; H 0.6m) NW-E-SW, but there is no evidence of the perimeter SW-NW or of a fosse or an identifiable original entrance. A boulder (RO041-071002-) (dims 0.6m x 0.6m; H 0.35m) inside the perimeter at SE has a rough-out for a quernstone (diam. 0.35m) with a central hole (diam. 0.07m; D 0.05m) and a cross inscribed on its upper surface. Rath (RO041-070----) is c. 95m to the N. 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 Araghty.

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_1308 (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 Araghty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Araghty · Arrachta

Area

2,319,988 m² (232 ha, 573.28 acres)

Civil parish

Athleague, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Athleague West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Athleague West electoral division: 610 people in 245 households; 69% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athleague, Cloondarah, Corra Beg, Gorteencloogh or Corra More, Keenagh (Clanrickard), Kilnagralta, Lismaha, Rookwood or Bellagad (Co. Galway)

Placenames

Araghty 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.