Figh

117 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Figh, from 190 m² to 178,241 m² (17.82 ha, 44.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 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 Figh 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.

• 8 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission to construct new slatted shed together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21313

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 Figh.

Recorded monuments

• RO014-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low NW-SE ridge with lower ground to the N. Oval grass-covered area (dims 34m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m) which is best preserved (at S: Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.4m) S-W, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2-3.5m; D 0.2m) NW-NE. A berm (Wth 3.5m) separates the bank from field banks to the S and W. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO014-036 Moated site
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature (diam. c. 25m), and situated at the bottom of the SW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge and on the NE shore of Figh Lough, an amorphous bog lake (dims c. 900m NW-SE; c. 200m NE-SW). Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 23m N-S; 17m E-W; H 1.7-2.3m) defined by a fosse at N (Wth of top 4.2m; Wth of base 3m; int. D 2.3m; ext. D 1.8m), a fosse (Wth of top 6.7m; Wth of base 4.4m; int. D 1.7m; ext. D 1.5m) and outer bank (Wth 5.4m; ext. H 1m) at S, and scarps at W (H 1.8m) and E (H 2m). The W end of the outer bank at S is destroyed by a quarry which has also curtailed the perimeter at W, and there is a large swallow-hole called Pollaghadoon E of the monument. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO014-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a SW-facing slope on the E shore of Figh Lough, an amorphous bog lake (dims c. 900m NW-SE; c. 200m NE-SW). Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.7; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.6m) and fosse (Wth of base 2.3m; D 0.4m) SW-NW and by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 5.6m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.5m) and outer fosse (Wth of base 5.7m; D 0.7m) at E, but the perimeter and much of the interior has been quarried NW-NE and ESE-SW. The causeway (Wth 3m) survives at ENE. 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 Figh.

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 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Figh.

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

Name

Figh

Area

2,964,751 m² (296.48 ha, 732.61 acres)

Civil parish

Tibohine, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Artagh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Artagh North electoral division: 864 people in 334 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaderry, Aghadrestan, Corracoggil North, Corracoggil South, Creevy, Driney, Kilrooan, Kiltybranks

Placenames

Figh 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.