Glenfin

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Glenfin, from 180,519 m² (18.05 ha, 44.61 acres) to 180,519 m² (18.05 ha, 44.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Glenfin 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Glenfin 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.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Glenfin.

Recorded monuments

• RO042-075 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  At the crest of the S-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. of top 11.7m NE-SW; diam. of base 17m NE-SW; H 0.55-0.65m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 8.3-8.8m; Wth of base 3.5-5.5m; D 0.45m at NE to 1.55m at SW) from an outer bank (at NE: Wth 4.2m; ext. H 0.75m; at SW: Wth 8.5m; ext. H 1.75m). There is no identifiable entrance, but spoil has been added inside the bank NE-SSE and W-N (max. ext. diam. 38.6m NE-SW). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO045-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the top of an E-facing slope in a col with higher ground c. 300m to the NW and SW. It is not visible at ground level in an area of reclaimed pasture. 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 Glenfin.

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

At the centre of the townland of Glenfin, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Glenfin.

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.

No address of the register names Glenfin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Glenfin

Area

180,642 m² (18.06 ha, 44.64 acres)

Civil parish

Rahara, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Lackan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmoney, Ganaveens, Lackan, Skrine

Placenames

Glenfin 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.