Castlenode

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlenode, from 640 m² to 715,104 m² (71.51 ha, 176.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Castlenode 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.

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

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 Castlenode.

Recorded monuments

• RO029-076001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 32m NNE-SSW; 28m WNW-ESE) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 3.5-4m; Wth of base 2-2.2m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.3-4.1m; int. H 0.7-0.9m; ext. H 0.3-0.8m). There is no identifiable original entrance (max. ext. diam. 44.6m NNE-SSW). Gannon (1972) records a possible structure in the N interior, but there is no clear evidence of this now. Rath (RO029-146001-) is c. 200m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-076002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope. Gannon (1972) records a possible structure in the N interior of rath (RO029-076001-), but there is no clear evidence of this now. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-146001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the bottom of a N-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (int. dims 28.7m WNW-ESE; 26.6m NNE-SSW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4-5.2m; H 0.2m) NW-E-SW which is best preserved (Wth 3.3m; H 0.5m) SE-SW. There is no visible fosse but there is an entrance gap (Wth 3m) at NE. The monument is cut by a NNE-SSW field wall at W and does not survive W of this feature. A rectangular house-site (RO029-146002-) (int. dims 10.9m NW-SE; 3.5m NE-SW) defined by the base of grass-covered stone walls (Wth 0.5-0.7m; H 0.2m) is c. 50m to the SE. Rath (RO029-076001-) is c. 200m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-146002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  At the bottom of a N-facing slope c. 50m SE of rath (RO029-146001-). Rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims 10.9m NW-SE; 3.5m NE-SW) defined by the base of grass-covered stone walls (Wth 0.5-0.7m; H 0.2m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-148 Moated site
  Description

  At the bottom of a NE-facing slope and at the edge of the flood-plain of the S-N Scramoge river, c. 100m to the NE. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 34m NW-SE; 29.6m NE-SW) defined by moats (Wth of top 4.7-7.5m; Wth of base 2.2-4m; int. D 0.2-0.7m; ext. D 0.2-0.6m) on all sides, with an outer bank (Wth 4.7m; H 0.1-0.2m) at SW. The perimeter of the platform at SW is overlain by a NW-SE drystone wall and hedge (max. ext. dims 49.3m NW-SE; 41.5m NE-SW). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29th September, 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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

Name

Castlenode

Area

739,463 m² (73.95 ha, 182.73 acres)

Civil parish

Bumlin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Strokestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Strokestown electoral division: 1,232 people in 529 households; 63% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashbrook or Knocknabarnaboy, Ballyhammon, Bellmount or Cloggernagh, Bumlin, Corhawny, Lissaphobble, Newtown, Treanacreeve

Placenames

Castlenode 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.