Danesfort

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Danesfort, from 128 m² to 145,687 m² (14.57 ha, 36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Danesfort 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.

• 5 Mar 2018Conditional

  for a single storey sunroom extension to side of existing two storey dwelling, conversion of attached garage to living accommodation with minor alteration to front elevation and detached domestic garage at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1893

• 14 Feb 2018N/a

  for single storey sunroom extension to side of existing two storey dwelling, conversion of attached garage to living accommodation with minor alteration to front elevation and detached domestic garage at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 1856

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 Danesfort.

Recorded monuments

• RO011-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise on the floor of the S-N Killukin river valley with the stream c. 50m to the W. Oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims. 45m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) ENE-E and a scarp (H 0.4-0.7m) elsewhere, with a fosse (at SW: Wth of top 6.5m; Wth of base 1.7m; ext. D 0.4m; at SSE: Wth of top 4.2m; Wth of base 1.2m; ext. D 0.4m) NE-SE and SW-NW. There is no visible entrance. Holy well (RO011-045----) is c. 160m to the WSW on the other side of the stream. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the top of the W-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 56m NW-SE; 50m NE-SW) defined by a short length of earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 1.1m) at WSW and an overgrown scarp (H 0.6m at S to 1.5m at N) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse (Wth of base 4-4.3m) and overgrown outer earthen bank (at W: Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.3m; at N: 6.4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2m) SW-N-NE, while the fosse is continued by a band of wet ground (Wth 3-5m) E-SE. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO011-049----) is c. 120m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 and 1914 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the E-facing slope of a drumlin. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 31m N-S; c. 15m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m generally to 0.7m at E) N-E-S which merges into the slope elsewhere. Rath (RO011-048----) is c. 120m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-050 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 40m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) truncated by a NE-SW field bank at NW only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope with the River Shannon, c. 200m to the E. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 36.5m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE) defined by a field bank at NW and scarps (H 0.2-0.4m) elsewhere. Rath (RO011-051----) is c. 150m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope overlooking the River Shannon, c. 200m to the E. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m E-W; 32.5m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m W-NW to 0.7m at E). A field bank circumscribes the perimeter at SE. Enclosure (RO011-050----) is c. 150m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the SW-facing slope of a small NE-SW drumlin. Circular overgrown area (diam. 32m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.1m at E to 8m at W; int. H 0.25m at E to 1m at N; ext. H 1.1m at E to 1.85 at N) WSW-N-ESE and a scarp (H 0.8-1.2m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 4.1-4.3m; D 0.75-0.85m) W-NE. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-166 Inscribed stone
  Description

  On two stones of the surround over the doorway in the N wall of an 18th or 19th century cornmill, now disused. The digits 1640 are incised across two of the stones, but while they were probably carved in situ it is unlikely they were intended as a date. (Keenehan 2006b) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-183 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located in improved pasture on a slight SSE-facing slope. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 24m NE-SW; c. 22m NW-SE) defined by a slight earthen bank (at WSW: Wth of base 7.8m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.15m) ESE-S-NW but it merges into the slope elsewhere, The perimeter is slightly truncated at E by a N-S filed bank, now removed and evident as a green moss cropmark. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 May 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1441 (ZIP).

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

Name

Danesfort · Lios Lochlainn

Area

1,585,634 m² (158.56 ha, 391.82 acres)

Civil parish

Killummod, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Danesfort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Danesfort electoral division: 963 people in 378 households; 60% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartron, Cordrehid, Glebe, Killukin, Rock

Placenames

Danesfort 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.