Rackans

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rackans, from 1,742 m² to 181,220 m² (18.12 ha, 44.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Rackans 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.

• 9 Jul 2026Conditional

  Permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660335

• 22 May 2025Conditional

  Retention permission to existing dwelling-house: Retention of alterations to dwelling from that previously granted under PD/06/1366 with reference to applicable conditions. Alterations include, i) addition of a two storey section that deviates from Condition 7, ii) the addition of natural cut stone work on front elevation to this two storey section, iii) to the rear of the dwelling, the removal of a dormer window, replacing with a roof window, iv) the single storey projection to the rear of the dwelling, change to roof pitch, removal of roof windows and addition of rear facing circular window and v) retention of the dwelling position and site boundary that deviates from Condition 10 at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2560238

• 9 Dec 2024N/a

  Permission and Retention Permission for alterations to dwelling from that previously granted under PD/06/1366. Alterations include, (i) the alteration to a dormer section on the front elevation, removal of roof windows and addition of a two storey section in replacement of dormer section, (ii) the addition of natural cut stone work on front elevation to the two storey section referred to under (i), (permission previously granted for plaster finish), (iii) the removal of a dormer window to the rear elevation and the installation of a roof balcony window in lieu of same and (iv) increase in roof pitch, removal of roof windows and addition of rear facing circular window to the single storey rear projection at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 24151

• 29 Oct 2024N/a

  Permission to construct a single storey garage and retention permission to existing dwelling for alterations to dwelling from that previously granted under PD/06/1366. Alterations include I) the removal of a dormer window to the rear elevation and the installation of a roof balcony window in lieu of same ii) the alteration to a dormer approved section on the front elevation and addition of a two storey section. iii) the addition of natural cut stone work on front elevation to the two storey section referred to under ii), (Permission previously granted for plaster finish) at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 24140

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 Rackans.

Recorded monuments

• RO048-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 20m N-S) only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle NE-facing slope. The arc of a bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.9m) survives NW-E (C 46m), but the grass-covered interior has been truncated by a WNW-ESE road at S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-184 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. Subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 28m E-W; 19.5m N-S at W to 24.5m N-S at E) defined by an earthen bank on all sides except E where it merges into the slope, but the bank is most substantial at W (Wth 5m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H. 1.25m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, and an oval depression (dims 9.2m E-W; 6.7m N-S; D 0.3m) is 9m E of the enclosure. It is regarded locally as a rath, which it probably is. 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 Rackans.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rackans

Area

720,611 m² (72.06 ha, 178.07 acres)

Civil parish

Cam, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Rockhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rockhill electoral division: 436 people in 151 households; 93% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmullan, Curraghboy

Placenames

Rackans 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.