Faus
Townland in the civil parish of Estersnow, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 237.2 ha
- 586 acres
- Land parcels
- 111
- registered freehold, median 3,864 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faus, from 177 m² to 152,277 m² (15.23 ha, 37.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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
No zone of a development plan covers Faus 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 Jun 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a new 4 bay slatted cattle shed, together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 24101
28 May 2024N/a
Planning Permission to extend and renovate an existing dwelling house. The works will include: 1. The demolition of an existing extension and the construction of a new extension to the rear of the dwelling. 2. The removal of 2 no. existing chimneys. 3. The widening of 2 no. existing rear window openings and to construct a new window opening. 4. The construction of a new double-door opening, in the west gable elevation together with all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2487
14 May 2024N/a
Permission to extend and renovate an existing dwelling house. The works will include 1. The construction of an extension to the rear of the dwelling 2.The removal of 2 no. existing chimneys 3. The widening of 2 no. existing rear window openings and to construct a new window opening 4. The construction of a new double-door opening, in the West gable elevation together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2476
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 Faus.
Recorded monuments
- RO010-042 Ringfort - cashel
Description
At the W end of a slight E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 38.5m E-W; 36.5m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.7m at N to 4.2m at W; int. H 0.2m at S to 0.6m at N; ext. H 0.2m at S to 0.6m at W). A gap (Wth 4m) at S may be an enlarged original entrance. A N-S relict field wall, visible as a grass-covered stone spread (dims 15m N-S; 2m E-W; H 0.2m), overlies the N interior, and a modern drain skirts the perimeter at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO010-044 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the NE end of a low NE-SW ridge. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 34.5m N-S; 33.5m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 3-3.6m; int. H 0.2-0.45m; ext. H 0.55-0.8m), with an outer fosse (Wth of top 3m; Wth of base 2-2.5m; D 0.2m) S-W. There is no identifiable original entrance, but an ENE-WSW field bank and drain overlie the monument towards the perimeter at N. 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 Faus.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Faus.
- 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 Faus with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Faus
- Area
- 2,371,979 m² (237.2 ha, 586.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Estersnow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Croghan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Croghan electoral division: 416 people in 152 households; 96% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardglass, Ardmore, Cavetown or Ballynahoogh, Derrylow, Enagh, Estersnow, Farranagalliagh, Lugnashammer, Rinn
- Placenames
- Faus 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.