# Castletown, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aughrim, barony of Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 251,587 m² (25.16 ha, 62.17 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 103,090 m² (10.31 ha, 25.47 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aughrim, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/aughrim.md - Barony: Frenchpark - Electoral division: Creeve, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 137 people lived in 54 households in the Creeve electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42818 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 190530 - Centre: latitude 53.896721, longitude -8.223802 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 28,900 m² (2.89 ha, 7.14 acres) to 119,576 m² (11.96 ha, 29.55 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 708696: 119,576 m² (11.96 ha, 29.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/708696.md - Parcel 712860: 103,090 m² (10.31 ha, 25.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/712860.md - Parcel 640622: 28,900 m² (2.89 ha, 7.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/640622.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Castletown 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 Castletown 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 Castletown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - RO010-075: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO010-075----. The decendents of Gilchrist Clerig Mac Dermot (died 1325) settled in Leamgire in the 14th century. In 1549 Rory Mac Dermot (KM 1549-68) helped the sons of Donnchadh Dubh to build or re-build the castle. It was owned by Owen Grana, a grandson of Donnchadh Dubh in 1585 and in 1617. In 1622 the castle and bawn were sold to Josiah Lambert, who also owned Canbo (RO010-084001-), by two sons of Owen Gran. (Mac Dermot 1996, 303-04, 453-4) Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated towards the S end of a low N-S ridge and described as reduced to the foundations (T c. 1.8m) (OS Name Books). It is not visible at ground level. There is a punch-dressed stone in the gable of a disused farmhouse to the NE. Rath (RO010-076----) is c. 130m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 - RO010-076: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO010-076----. On a low N-S ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at W: Wth 3m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 1.25-1.5m) SSW-NNW reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m at N to 1.9m at E) elsewhere, with a fosse (Wth 3m of base; D 0.4m) SSW-SW. There is no visible entrance. Leamgire castle (RO010-075----) is c. 130m to the SW. 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 Castletown. ## 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 Castletown, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castletown. - 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/castletown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/castletown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/castletown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Castletown 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) - Assaun: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/assaun.md - Carrowmore: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/carrowmore-190424.md - Kilcolagh: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/kilcolagh.md - Portobello: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/portobello.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. --- 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/castletown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/castletown