Cashel

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashel, from 51 m² to 84,373 m² (8.44 ha, 20.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Cashel 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 May 2018Refused

  to construct a dwellinghouse, garage and septic tank/foul effluent treatment system all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18228

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 Cashel.

Recorded monuments

• RO025-006 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked as a curved wall or boundary ENE-S-WNW (diam. c. 30m) only on the 1928 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle N-facing slope in reclaimed pasture. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO025-008001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a high, level landscape. D-shaped area (int. dims 28m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) defined by a stone wall (Wth 1m; H 1m), with large stones at the base of the wall SE-SSW. It is known locally as 'Cashel Beg', and is used as a vegetable garden. Cashel (RO025-010001-) is c. 110m to the SSE, and the possible cashel (RO025-009----) is c. 210m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO025-009 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 60m) and on the 1928 ed. as a subcircular field (dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W) with 5 field walls radiating off it. Situated on a high, level landscape, it was removed in the 1960s (Gannon 1972) and is not now visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Cashel (RO025-008001-) is c. 200m to the W and cashel (RO025-010001-) is c. 180m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO025-010001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope of a plateau. Circular grass-covered (int. diam. 34.1m N-S; 33.5m E-W) defined by a rebuilt wall (Wth 1.8-2.2m; int. H 1-1.3m; ext. H 1.2-1.9m) on the line of the cashel wall, the outer face of which survives (H 1.3m) N-E, and inner and outer facing stones can be seen at the base of the wall all around. There are modern entrances at WNW (Wth 1.1m) and NW (Wth 3.2m), but the wall has collapsed S-W. Cashel (RO025-008001-) is 110m to the NW, the possible cashel (RO025-009----) is 180m to the ENE, and building (RO025-011001-) is c. 100m to the SW. See the attached aerial images taken from NW (001) and E (002). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO025-011001 Building
  Description

  Marked as a chapel on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, but its idendity as a chapel could not be confirmed (OS Name Books). Situated on a N-facing slope of an oval grass-covered hillock (dims 50m NW-SE; 28.6m NE-SW at SE to 33m NE-SW at NW; max. H 5.2m at NW to 7.2m at SE), which was regarded as an ancient assembly point (ibid.). Rectangular structure (int. dims c. 10.3m NE-SW; c. 8.8m NW-SW) defined by a grass-covered mound (Wth c. 4m; H 0.5-0.9m) with some facing-stones visible. It is regarded as the site of a monastery (Fitzmaurice 1988), and it may be the site of a castle. Cashel (RO023-010001-) is c. 100m to the NE, and cashel (RO025-008001-) is c. 160m to the NNE. 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 Cashel.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cashel · An Caiseal

Area

543,444 m² (54.34 ha, 134.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Ballinlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinlough electoral division: 1,138 people in 465 households; 78% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clydagh Lower, Clydagh Upper, Coolnafarna (Co. Mayo), Leo (Co. Mayo), Scregg

Placenames

Cashel 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.