Inchiroe and Gortfree
Townland in the civil parish of Cam, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon; in Irish An Inse Rua
- Area
- 105.5 ha
- 261 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 4,623 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inchiroe and Gortfree, from 68 m² to 284,517 m² (28.45 ha, 70.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Inchiroe and Gortfree 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
No planning application touches the townland of Inchiroe and Gortfree 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Funshinagh SAC 000611
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Funshinagh 000611
Recorded monuments
- RO045-175 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in an undulating landscape, c. 350m S of the SE angle of Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 41.6m ENE-WSW; 40.6m NNW-SSE) defined by a poached earthen bank with a whitethorn hedge (Wth 5.3-6.2m; int. H 0.3-0.8m; ext. H 0.75-0.8m), and an outer fosse (at WSW: Wth of top 5.5m; Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.2m) S-W. There is an entrance (Wth 3.4m) at E. 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 Inchiroe and Gortfree.
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Inchiroe and Gortfree.
- 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 Inchiroe and Gortfree.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Inchiroe and Gortfree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Inchiroe and Gortfree · An Inse Rua
- Area
- 1,055,059 m² (105.51 ha, 260.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Caltragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Caltragh electoral division: 279 people in 91 households; 95% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardmullan, Ballagh, Carrick, Carrickbeg, Curraghboy, Kildurney, Lisfelim
- Placenames
- Inchiroe and Gortfree 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.