Farranagalliagh West
Townland in the civil parish of Ardcarn, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 22.6 ha
- 56 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 3,947 m² (0.39 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- P6
- Zone 2
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranagalliagh West, from 665 m² to 73,616 m² (7.36 ha, 18.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P6Zone 2 (Other primary sector uses)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Farranagalliagh West 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.
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 Farranagalliagh West.
Recorded monuments
- RO006-104 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a steep E-facing slope. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (int. diam. c. 25m) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.9-3.6m; int. H 0.5-0.6m; ext. H 0.1m at W (upslope) to 1m at E). There is no visible entrance or internal features. Rath (RO006-105----) is c. 200m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO006-105 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 25m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 1.5-3m; int. H 0.1-0.7m; ext. H 0.4-1m) NW-E-SW and a scarp (H 0.5m) elsewhere. The bank is revetted internally and externally by upright stones and is surmounted by the foundations of a drystone wall (Wth 1-1.5m). There are traces of an outer fosse (Wth of top 5m; D 0.3-0.4m) at NE, but there is no visible entrance. Rath (RO006-106----) is c. 70m to the E, and cashel (RO006-104----) is c. 200m to the W. 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 Farranagalliagh West.
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
- About 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farranagalliagh West.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Farranagalliagh West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Farranagalliagh West
- Area
- 225,627 m² (22.56 ha, 55.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardcarn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Rockingham, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rockingham electoral division: 339 people in 134 households; 88% of households own their home; 14% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardcarn, Farranagalliagh East
- Placenames
- Farranagalliagh West 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.