# Ballygortagh, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Creagh, barony of Moycarn, Co. Roscommon.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 457,854 m² (45.79 ha, 113.14 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 49,342 m² (4.93 ha, 12.19 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Creagh, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/creagh.md
- Barony: Moycarn
- Electoral division: Creagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,005 people lived in 370 households in the Creagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42466
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 190184
- Centre: latitude 53.347892, longitude -8.213605 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygortagh, from 1,685 m² to 255,950 m² (25.6 ha, 63.25 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 683487: 255,950 m² (25.6 ha, 63.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/683487.md
- Parcel 661873: 72,618 m² (7.26 ha, 17.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/661873.md
- Parcel 667028: 63,148 m² (6.31 ha, 15.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/667028.md
- Parcel 670654: 49,342 m² (4.93 ha, 12.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/670654.md
- Parcel 710971: 4,362 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/710971.md
- Parcel 705588: 1,695 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/705588.md
- Parcel 655607: 1,685 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/655607.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ballygortagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Ballygortagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballygortagh.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- RO053-001001: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO053-001001-. On a slight SW-facing slope in a low-lying landscape, c. 1 km E of the River Suck. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 22.2m E-W; 21m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 3.3-4.2m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 0.5-0.6m) with occasional facing-stones visible. There is no identifiable original entrance, but an oval house site (RO053-001003-) (int. dims 4m N-S; 2.4m E-W) defined by a low stony bank (Wth 1.2m; max. H 0.2m) is against the inner face of the perimeter at E. The children's burial ground (RO053-00102-) is in the interior of the cashel. The interior and the perimeter at E are disturbed by quarrying.. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO053-001002: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO053-001002-. On a slight SW-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. This is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 12m N-S; 5m E-W) occupied by boulder-like grave-markers (dims c. 0.8m x c. 0.2m; H c. 0.4m) placed 0.8-1.2m apart and occupying the S interior of cashel (RO053-001001-). It may have extended further N and E but is disturbed by grass-covered quarrying. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO053-001003: House - indeterminate date, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO053-001003-. On a slight SW-facing slope in a low-lying landscape, c. 1 km E of the River Suck. An oval house site (int. dims 4m N-S; 2.4m E-W) defined by a low stony bank (Wth 1.2m; max. H 0.2m) is against the inner face of the perimeter of cashel (RO053-001001-) at E and may have been circular originally. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygortagh.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballygortagh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1348, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1348.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ballygortagh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ballygortagh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ballygortagh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballygortagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ashford (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/ashford.md
- Atticorra (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/atticorra.md
- Clarary: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/clarary.md
- Creagh (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/creagh.md
- Laughil: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/laughil-191512.md
- Rooaun (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/rooaun-63726.md
- Rooaun Bog and Meadow: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/rooaun-bog-and-meadow.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ballygortagh
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