Hawksford

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hawksford, from 67 m² to 173,039 m² (17.3 ha, 42.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 46 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 Hawksford 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.

• 11 Jul 2024Conditional

  Permission for the construction of an agricultural hay/storage shed to that which differs from planning granted under PD/16/378 with all associated site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460328

• 7 May 2019Conditional

  construct a silage slab with sidewalls and all associated site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19235

• 17 Apr 2019N/a

  to construct a silage slab with sidewalls and all associated site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19199

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 Hawksford.

Recorded monuments

• RO008C005001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a steep S-facing slope at the W end of an E-W spur. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 62m N-S; 57m E-W) defined by a rebuilt drystone wall (Wth 2.1-3m; int. H 1.6-1.9m; ext. H 0.9-2m). Some of the outer facing-stones are visible at SE and SSW, and inner facing-stones are visible at SW and NW. There are five modern entrances and the site is bisected by a NE-SW field wall. The possible children's burial ground (RO008C005002-) is in inside the perimeter at SW. See the attached aerial image taken from the NW with the children's burial ground under the bush. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C005002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Inside the perimeter of cashel (RO008C005001) at SW. Grass-covered cairn (dims 3m E-W; 2m N-S; max. H 1m) with a single whitethorn bush and some diplaced stones (dims 0.5m x 0.3m; T 0.15m) which may have been grave-markers, but there is no local information that it was used as a childrens burial ground. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C008 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On the crest of a NW-SE ridge. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 18.5m N-S; 12.5m E-W) defined by drystone walls with a stile to the remnant of a disused N-S track at E. It contains eight N-S rows of large grave-markers (dims c. 0.4m x 0.1m; H 0.6m) at the head and smaller stones (dims c. 0.3m x 0.1m; H 0.35m) at the feet of individual graves. One marker (H 0.75m; Wth 0.3m; T 0.15m) has a crudely-inscribed cross. See the attached view from the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C009 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature (diam. c . 10m), and situated on the crest of a NW-SE ridge. This is a trapezoidal grass-covered earth and stone mound (dims 13.5m E-W; 5.5m N-S at W to 9.5m N-S at E; H 0.3m at E to 1.1m at W) with quarries on the perimeter. Rath (RO008C010001-) and souterrain (RO008C010002-) are c. 70m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C010001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of a NW-SE ridge. Rectangular grass-covered platform (dims 16m E-W; 14.4m N-S) defined by scarps (H 0.3m at E to 1m at W), which has probably been cut back. The souterrain (RO008C010002-) is preserved near its SW edge. Earthwork (RO008C009----) is c. 70m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C010002 Souterrain
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a cave, it is situated at the crest of the S-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge and at the SW edge of rath (RO008C010001-). A NE-SW lintelled passage (L 4.8m; Wth 2.3m; H 1.4m) entered at the SW end is flooded (D 0.4m) and regarded locally as a holy well (RO008C010003-), but there is no evidence of veneration. Earthwork (RO008C009----) is c. 70m to the NW. See the attached view from the entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C010003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of a S-facing slope. The souterrain (RO008C010001-) is regarded locally as a holy well, but there is no evidence of veneration. 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 Hawksford.

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 high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Hawksford

Area

1,920,487 m² (192.05 ha, 474.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolman, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballaghaderreen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballaghaderreen electoral division: 3,254 people in 1,218 households; 58% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bohalas, Cloonlumney, Currinah, Derrynanaff, Gortanure, Tonregee

Placenames

Hawksford 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.