# Rackans, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Cam, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 720,611 m² (72.06 ha, 178.07 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 68,386 m² (6.84 ha, 16.9 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Cam, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/cam.md
- Barony: Athlone South
- Electoral division: Rockhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 436 people lived in 151 households in the Rockhill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42572
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 191790
- Centre: latitude 53.483779, longitude -8.086594 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rackans, from 1,742 m² to 181,220 m² (18.12 ha, 44.78 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 683353: 181,220 m² (18.12 ha, 44.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/683353.md
- Parcel 661935: 150,288 m² (15.03 ha, 37.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/661935.md
- Parcel 705462: 122,693 m² (12.27 ha, 30.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/705462.md
- Parcel 5413654: 115,784 m² (11.58 ha, 28.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5413654.md
- Parcel 6151066: 105,719 m² (10.57 ha, 26.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6151066.md
- Parcel 6151093: 31,053 m² (3.11 ha, 7.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6151093.md
- Parcel 667084: 5,823 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/667084.md
- Parcel 640150: 3,440 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/640150.md
- Parcel 2493826: 2,631 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2493826.md
- Parcel 704751: 1,742 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/704751.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 9 Jul 2026, Roscommon County Council 2660335: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660335/0
- 22 May 2025, Roscommon County Council 2560238: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560238/0
- 9 Dec 2024, Roscommon County Council 24151: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/24151/0
- 29 Oct 2024, Roscommon County Council 24140: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/24140/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- RO048-016: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO048-016----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO048-184----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rackans.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Rackans, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Rackans.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/rackans.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/rackans.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/rackans.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rackans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ardmullan: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ardmullan.md
- Curraghboy: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/curraghboy.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/rackans
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