Rathbrenan

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathbrenan, from 176 m² to 121,323 m² (12.13 ha, 29.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathbrenan 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.

• 30 May 2026N/a

  Permission to construct dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660268

• 14 May 2026Conditional

  Permission and Retention Permission for the following: (1) To retain a roofed extension to existing slatted shed (2) To construct a new 4 bay double sided slatted cattle shed and (3) To construct a new 3 bay dry store/machinery shed, together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660227

• 16 Apr 2026N/a

  Permission & Retention Permission for the following development: 1. To retain a roofed extension to existing slatted shed. 2. To construct a new 4 bay double sided slatted cattle shed & 3. To construct a new 3 bay dry store/machinery shed together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660167

• 6 Nov 2025Conditional

  Retention Permission for retention of sheds and associated works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2560525

• 28 Apr 2025Conditional

  Planning permission for A: Demolition of chimneys to existing dwelling, B: Proposed alterations to existing dwelling including: 1: Demolition of porch and replacement with proposed porch, 2: Demolition of rear extension and replacement with proposed rear extension, 3: Proposed side window to kitchen, C: Proposed upgrade of existing septic tank to proposed proprietary treatment system & percolation area and associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560187

• 24 Sept 2024Conditional

  Retention permission for (a) an extension to an existing domestic garage, (b) stable block & hayshed, (c) stable block & associated siteworks at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460452

• 18 Aug 2023Conditional

  Permission for a Proposed Agricultural Entrance/ access to public road at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360059

• 28 Jul 2023N/a

  Permission for proposed new Agricultural Entrance / access to Public road at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360032

• 29 May 2019Conditional

  to construct new domestic fuel/storage garage at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19288

• 6 Feb 2019Conditional

  to refurbish and extend existing dwelling associated site development works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1948

• 29 Jan 2019N/a

  to refurbish and extend existing dwelling associated site development works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1931

• 22 May 2017Conditional

  For the construction of the following:- (1) Extensions to the rear and side of an existing dwelling house; (2) Alterations to all elevations; (3) A new detached domestic garage, together with all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17226

• 5 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct new dwelling house and domestic garage with proprietary treatment system & percolation area and carry out all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17139

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 Rathbrenan.

Recorded monuments

• RO039-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the crest of the SW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Described as a circular area (diam. 37m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 1.8m; int. H c. 0.6m; ext. H c. 1.2m) with no visible fosse or entrance (Knox 1915, 297). It is not visible now at ground level in pasture. Rath site (RO039-034001-) is c. 10m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-034001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the crest of the SW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Described as a circular area (diam. c. 32m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H c. 0.6m; ext. H c. 1.2m) with an enclosure or annexe (RO039-034002-) (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 24m N-S) or field attached to the N defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 1.2m) (Knox 1915, 297-8). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Rath site (RO039-033----) is c. 10m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-034002 Enclosure
  Description

  At the crest of the SW-facing slope of a broad NW-SE ridge. Described as an enclosure, or annexe (dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 24m N-S), or field attached to the N of rath (RO039-034001-) defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 1.2m) (Knox 1915, 297-8). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-035001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the crest of the SE-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 57.8m NW-SE; 53.8m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.6-5.4m; int. H 0.3-0.45m; ext. H 1.3-2.25m), and an outer rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.8-6.8m; Wth of base 1.8-3m; D 0.35-0.6m). There are entrances at NE (Wth 2m), S (Wth 3.5m), WNW (Wth 2m) and ESE (Wth 2m), the latter with a causeway connecting to rath (RO039-035002-), whose fosse appears to cut that of this rath, although the causeway might not be original (max. ext. diam. 66.4m N-S). There was a subrectangular enclosure or annexe (RO039-035004-) (dims c. 100m E-W; c. 70m N-S) or, more probably, a field bank to the S, connecting with rath (RO039-035002-) and defined by an earthen bank and fosse (Wth c. 2m; D c. 0.6m) (Knox 1915, 289) that no longer survives. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-035002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Legend associates St Patrick with Rathbrenan where he stopped overnight and was told by Caílte that this rath had originally had been called Rath Glas after a Scandinavian king, Glas Mac Drecán, who had been defeated in a great mythical battle here by the Fianna and who was buried under the mound in the interior (O’Grady 1892, 1, 121; 2 131-2; Dooley and Roe 1999, 39-41). There are references to Rathbrenainn in the annals in AD 600, AD 1143, and AD 1410 (Knox 1915 293). It is situated at the crest of the SE-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 60m NE-SW; 59.8m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-7.8m; int. H 0.25-0.4m; ext. H 2.2-2.85m) separated by a rounded fosse with some bushes (Wth of top 6.2-9.7m; Wth of base 2.2-4.4m; D 1.2m) from an outer bank (Wth 2m; H 0.5m) NW-E-SSE which is incorporated into a field bank SSE-SW (max. ext. diam. 78.4m E-W). There is an entrance (Wth 3.5m) and causeway, which are probably secondary, at NW connecting to rath (RO039-035001-), while the original entrance through the inner (Wth 4.5m) and outer (Wth 4.2m) banks and a causeway (Wth 5.2m) are at ESE. There is a grass-covered mound (RO039-035003-) (diam. 9.5m NW-SE; 8.7m NE-SW; H 0.5-1.3m) inside the perimeter at E. A subrectangular annexe or field (RO039-035004-) (dims c. 100m E-W; c. 70m N-S) to the S defined by a bank and fosse (Wth c. 2m; D c. 0.6m) which connected this monument and rath (RO039-035001-) (ibid. 289) no longer survives. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 8 October, 2015

• RO039-035003 Mound
  Description

  At the crest of the SE-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. This is the mythical burial place of Glas Mac Drecán, a Scandinavian king who had been defeated in a great battle here by the Fianna (O’Grady 1892, 1, 121; 2 131-2; Dooley and Roe 1999, 39-41). It is a grass-covered mound (diam. 9.5m NW-SE; 8.7m NE-SW; H 0.5-1.3m) inside the perimeter of rath (RO039-035002-) at E. The presence of a mound within the enclosure leads Knox (1915, 292-3) to compare the rath with ceremonial enclosures like Rathra (RO027-012001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-035004 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  At the crest of the SE-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge, and to the S of raths (RO039-035001-; RO039-035002-). An enclosure or annexe, or a subrectangular field (dims c. 100m E-W; c. 70m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and fosse (Wth c. 2m; D c. 0.6m) which connected the two raths (Knox 1915 289) no longer survives. 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 Rathbrenan.

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

At the centre of the townland of Rathbrenan, 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 Rathbrenan.

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.

No address of the register names Rathbrenan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Rathbrenan

Area

1,270,951 m² (127.1 ha, 314.06 acres)

Civil parish

Roscommon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober South

Electoral division

Fuerty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

796 people lived in 283 households in the Fuerty electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindall, Ballybride, Brackloon, Cams, Carrownabrickna, Cloonyquin, Lissagallan

Placenames

Rathbrenan 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.