# Ganaveens, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rahara, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 242,679 m² (24.27 ha, 59.97 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 29,559 m² (2.96 ha, 7.3 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rahara, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/rahara.md - Barony: Athlone North - Electoral division: Lackan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 379 people lived in 126 households in the Lackan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/44195 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 191216 - Centre: latitude 53.541753, longitude -8.155505 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ganaveens, from 4,184 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres) to 118,830 m² (11.88 ha, 29.36 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 679452: 118,830 m² (11.88 ha, 29.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/679452.md - Parcel 695250: 51,505 m² (5.15 ha, 12.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/695250.md - Parcel 667075: 45,813 m² (4.58 ha, 11.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/667075.md - Parcel 701676: 13,305 m² (1.33 ha, 3.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/701676.md - Parcel 655650: 9,056 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/655650.md - Parcel 640643: 4,184 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/640643.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ganaveens in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Ganaveens in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ganaveens. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - RO045-005: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO045-005----. Towards the top of a SE-facing slope of Lackan Hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 42m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-4.5m; int. H 0.95-1.2m; ext. H 2.3-2.6m) with some scrub and inner facing-stones separated by a fosse (Wth of top 5.5-6.4m; Wth of base 2-2.3m; D 1.2-1.6m) from an outer grass-covered bank (Wth 3.4-3.9m; ext. H 0.65-0.8m) with some outer facing-stones, which is incorporated into a field bank ENE-SSW. There is a modern entrance at SSW, but the original entrance (Wth 2.4m) and causeway (Wth 4.4m) are at SE (max. ext. diam. 59.3m NE-SW). See the attached aerial view taken from the W Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ganaveens. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ganaveens, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ganaveens. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ganaveens.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ganaveens.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ganaveens.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ganaveens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrowmoney: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/carrowmoney.md - Curraghnaveen: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/curraghnaveen.md - Glenfin: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/glenfin.md - Gortnadarra: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/gortnadarra.md - Lackan: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/lackan-191505.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ganaveens - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/ganaveens