Heathfield
Heathfield is a townland in the civil parish of Baslick, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 106.4 ha
- 263 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 26,259 m² (2.63 ha, 6.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Heathfield, from 54 m² to 250,679 m² (25.07 ha, 61.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Heathfield 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
9 Mar 2026Conditional
Permission to construct new general storage agricultural shed, together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660102
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 Heathfield.
Recorded monuments
- RO027-071 Field system
Description
Visible on aerial photographs (OSAP: 4/2037), and situated on a gentle S-facing slope. An area of c. 14 acres (c. 5 ha) contains relict field banks parallel with or perpendicular to the present field banks creating small rectangular fields (dims c. 50m x c. 30m) that are not likely to be ancient. 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 Heathfield.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Heathfield, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Heathfield.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Heathfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Heathfield
- Area
- 1,063,832 m² (106.38 ha, 262.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Baslick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Castleplunket, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 563 people lived in 208 households in the Castleplunket electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drishaghaun East, Kilmurry, Knockalegan East, Knockalegan West, Lisheen, Lissalway, Pollranny, Rusheen
- Placenames
- Heathfield 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.