Rahardagh
Rahardagh is a townland in the civil parish of Baslick, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 134.3 ha
- 332 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 40,172 m² (4.02 ha, 9.93 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 Rahardagh, from 370 m² to 258,087 m² (25.81 ha, 63.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Rahardagh 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 Rahardagh 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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrowreagh Turlough 001624
Recorded monuments
- RO027-046001 Enclosure
Description
Visible as a rectangular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M, 65-6), and situated on a broad NW-SE ridge. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 33.5m NE-SW; 30.8m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) at NE and SE and by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.3m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 4.7-7.5m; Wth of base 2-2.5m; D 0.2m) at NW and SW. There is no identifiable original entrance. Traces of rectangular fields (RO027-046002-) (dims c. 40m x c. 40m) can be seen to the E and S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO027-046002 Field system
Description
Visible as a rectangular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M, 65-6), and situated on a broad NW-SE ridge. Traces of rectangular fields (dims c. 40m x c. 40m) can be seen to the E and S of rectangular enclosure (RO027-046001-). They cover an area of c. 1 Ha (c. 2.5 acres). 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 Rahardagh.
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 Rahardagh, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rahardagh.
- 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 Rahardagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Rahardagh
- Area
- 1,343,090 m² (134.31 ha, 331.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Baslick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Castleteheen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 324 people lived in 131 households in the Castleteheen electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bushfield, Caran, Carrowbaun, Carrowreagh, Emlagh, Milltown
- Placenames
- Rahardagh 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.