Faltia
Faltia is a townland in the civil parish of Moore, barony of Moycarn, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Fáilte.
- Area
- 222 ha
- 549 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 9,903 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faltia, from 1,145 m² to 213,390 m² (21.34 ha, 52.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Faltia 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Nov 2025N/a
Planning permission to construct astro football pitch with associated fencing and lighting at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560559
4 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission for the erection of a dwelling house with a sewerage treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic garage, new road entrance, connection of all services and all ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460468
21 Sept 2018Conditional
development consisting of:- The erection of a two storey dwelling house, and the installation of a wastewater treatment system including polishing filter and all other associated ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18483
17 Nov 2017Conditional
Erection of dwelling house and domestic garage, with sewerage treatment plant and percolation area and ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17463
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Faltia.
Recorded monuments
- RO054-032 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
Marked only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a large embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 100m) and situated on a gentle S-facing slope. This is a circular area of mixed woodland defined by a scarp (Wth 2-5m; H 0.5-0.8m) SE-W-NW (diam. 83m NW-SE), which merges into the slope elsewhere where it is bordered by the edge of the wood. There is no evidence of a bank, fosse or original entrance. 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 Faltia.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Faltia, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Faltia with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Faltia · Fáilte
- Area
- 2,220,483 m² (222.05 ha, 548.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycarn
- Electoral division
- Ballydangan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 784 people lived in 263 households in the Ballydangan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- America, Cappantogher, Cornaveagh, Drumalagagh, Hillsend, Rooty, Tully
- Placenames
- Faltia 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.