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

Townland in the civil parish of Baslick, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,108,554 m² (110.86 ha, 273.93 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,647 m² (2.86 ha, 7.08 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Baslick, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/baslick.md
- Barony: Castlereagh
- Electoral division: Castleplunket, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 563 people lived in 208 households in the Castleplunket electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/43464
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 190525
- Centre: latitude 53.773806, longitude -8.329856 (WGS 84)

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

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castleruby, from 816 m² to 110,552 m² (11.06 ha, 27.32 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 679120: 110,552 m² (11.06 ha, 27.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/679120.md
- Parcel 705382: 104,182 m² (10.42 ha, 25.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/705382.md
- Parcel 710673: 93,878 m² (9.39 ha, 23.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/710673.md
- Parcel 717206: 91,355 m² (9.14 ha, 22.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/717206.md
- Parcel 695662: 90,902 m² (9.09 ha, 22.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/695662.md
- Parcel 725664: 70,015 m² (7 ha, 17.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/725664.md
- Parcel 716889: 57,455 m² (5.75 ha, 14.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/716889.md
- Parcel 649684: 53,256 m² (5.33 ha, 13.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/649684.md
- Parcel 649296: 39,603 m² (3.96 ha, 9.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/649296.md
- Parcel 651793: 37,468 m² (3.75 ha, 9.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/651793.md
- Parcel 4762131: 34,474 m² (3.45 ha, 8.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4762131.md
- Parcel 685322: 33,523 m² (3.35 ha, 8.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/685322.md
- Parcel 725665: 30,624 m² (3.06 ha, 7.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/725665.md
- Parcel 649824: 29,932 m² (2.99 ha, 7.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/649824.md
- Parcel 695096: 28,647 m² (2.86 ha, 7.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/695096.md
- Parcel 716700: 28,297 m² (2.83 ha, 6.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/716700.md
- Parcel 4985226: 20,274 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4985226.md
- Parcel 5540010: 19,041 m² (1.9 ha, 4.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5540010.md
- Parcel 655914: 10,610 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/655914.md
- Parcel 5540095: 5,556 m² (0.56 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5540095.md
- Parcel 4762134: 4,972 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4762134.md
- Parcel 2819404: 4,778 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2819404.md
- Parcel 723581: 4,629 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/723581.md
- Parcel 5687249: 2,556 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5687249.md
- Parcel 640254: 2,123 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/640254.md
- Parcel 643217: 2,076 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/643217.md
- Parcel 662654: 1,980 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/662654.md
- Parcel 701610: 1,858 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/701610.md
- Parcel 651240: 816 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/651240.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Castleruby 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 Castleruby 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 Castleruby.

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

- RO027-021003: Barrow - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO027-021003-. Marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature (diam. c. 20m) and situated on the crest of a NW-SE ridge. Grass-covered and round-topped earthen mound which has a sub-rectangular base (dims 11.2m N-S; 11m E-W; H 1.6m at N to 2.4m at S) where some old field banks have been removed. The base of the mound is overlain by a N-S field bank at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO027-023001: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO027-023001-. Located on a slight E-W ridge of rock outcrop at the bottom of a S-facing slope. Traditionally owned by a Ruby O'Conor, it was O'Conor Roe land into the seventeenth century (Gormley 1989, 89, 148). In 1641 land at Castlerew was owned by Hugh Morgagh Ó Connor Dunn, but by 1684 ownership had been transferred to Ellen and George Talbot, Countess of Fingal by Act of Settlement, c. 1662-84 (Simington 1949, 48), whose daughter Mary married Patrick Plunkett of Castleplunket (RO027-028001--) (Tiernan 2016). The castle is a rectangular area (ext. dims 15m N-S; 7.3m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2-3m; H 0.2m), which may be a house built by the Talbots on the site of an older O'Conor castle. This is at the centre of an area of c. 1.5 ha. (c. 4 acres) containing three small rectangular fields (RO027-023003-) (dims c. 40m x c. 30m) defined by low banks or scarps. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 11 August 2017
- RO027-023003: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO027-023003-. On a slight E-W ridge of rock outcrop at the bottom of a S-facing slope. An area of c. 1.5 ha (c. 4 acres) surrounding castle (RO027-023001-) containing three small rectangular fields (dims c. 40m x c. 30m) defined by low banks or scarps. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO027-055001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO027-055001-. On a gentle S-facing slope. What looks like it might have been an enclosure (diam. c. 30m) is visible on aerial photographs (OS 4, 20384-3) in the field system (RO027-055----), but the area is reclaimed and no feature is now visible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 28 July 2015
- RO027-055002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO027-055002-. On a gentle S-facing slope. What looks like an earthwork enclosure (diam. c. 70m) is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M, 82-3), although it may represent a number of small fields. The area is now reclaimed and no feature is visible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO027-055003: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO027-055003-. On the floor of a WNW-ESE valley. Aerial photographs (GSIAP: M, 82-3) show a series of small fields (dims c. 30m x c. 20m) extending in a NE-SW line and covering c. 10 acres (c. 4 ha). They are no longer visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO027-068: Road - road/trackway, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO027-068----. A linear earthwork is visible in Castleruby on aerial photographs (ACP: V206/8) running parallel with the stone wall and townland boundary with Tonroe. Situated on the crest of an E-W ridge, extending W from the ceremonial enclosure (RO027-022---). No feature is visible at ground level in pasture but the cropmark of two ditch-features placed c. 10m apart can be seen running ESE from the enclosure (total L c. 500m) on OSI images c. 2010. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 24 July 2015

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 Castleruby.

## 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 Castleruby, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castleruby.
- 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/castleruby.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/castleruby.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/castleruby.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Castleruby 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)

- Balloony: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/balloony.md
- Carrowkeel: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/carrowkeel-190406.md
- Drishaghaun West: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/drishaghaun-west.md
- Farranawillin: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/farranawillin.md
- Gortnasillagh: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/gortnasillagh.md
- Lissawaddy: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/lissawaddy.md
- Tonroe: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/tonroe.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.

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