Rathconor

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathconor, from 973 m² to 977,589 m² (97.76 ha, 241.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Rathconor 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.

• 10 Sept 2020Conditional

  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, 20352

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 Rathconor.

Recorded monuments

• RO035-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 ed. and as a fragment of a bank (C c. 40m W-N) on the 1928 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope at the W end of a low E-W ridge, it is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-035001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  At the W end of an E-W ridge. Circular, flat-topped and grass-covered mound (diam. of top 4.3m E-W; 4.2m N-S; diam. of base 5.1m E-W; 5m N-S; H 0.2-0.3m) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6.9-7.4m; Wth of base 2.2-3.2m; D 0.4-0.8m) and outer bank (Wth 3.6m; ext. H 0.1-0.2m). There is no identifiable original entrance (max. ext. diam. 21m E-W; 22.6m N-S). Ring-barrow (RO035-035002-) is c. 20m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-035002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  At the W end of an E-W ridge. D-shaped, overgrown platform (dims c. 10m N-S; c. 7m E-W; H 0.3m) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; Wth of base 1.7m; D 0.35m) and outer bank (Wth 3.6m; H 0.2m). The monument is truncated by a NE-SW field wall at E, and does not survive SE of this. There is an entrance in the bank and a causeway (Wth 2.5m) at NW (max. ext. diam. 20.5m NE-SW). Ring-barrow (RO035-035001-) is c. 20m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-056001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 41.5m E-W; 40.7m N-S) defined by an overgrown rounded fosse (Wth of top 8.1-8.3m; Wth of base 2.2-2.5m; int. D 1.4-1.8m; ext. D 1-1.2m) WNW-N-SE. A drystone wall circumvents the site SSW-NNW and NNE-SE on the outer edge of the fosse and a roadway occupied the fosse NE-SE, turning S away from the monument at SE. Just to the SW is rath (RO035-056002-) which appears to be cut by this rath. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-056002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.85m) and fosse (Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 2.4m; ext. D 0.55m) WSW-NNW. The perimeter extended by scarps (H 0.3-1m) to S and N (int. dim. c. 58m N-S; c. 40m E-W). It is truncated by a N-S field bank at E and its perimeter at NE has been cut by rath (RO035-056001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the crest of a W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 49.3m E-W; 47.4m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 3.4-5m; Wth of top 0.6-0.8m; int. H 0.25-0.35m generally to 0.7m at S; ext. H 0.8m at N to 1.25-1.7m generally) separated by a rounded fosse (at S: Wth of top 7.5m; Wth of base 1.8m; ext. D 1.35m) from an outer bank (at S: Wth 3.7m; H 0.35m) which survive SE-W. The fosse is truncated by a NE-SW road wall at SE and a NW-SE field wall at NE. The original entrance cannot be identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-058 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  At the crest of the N-facing slope of a broad hill. Overgrown circular platform (diam. c. 20m; H 0.2m) defined by a fosse (Wth of base 3m; D 0.85m) and an outer overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; H 0.35m). There is no identifiable original entrance (ext. diam. c. 30m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-080 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Marked only on the 1928 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a grass and furze-covered area towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 4.5m; H 0.05m) defined by a slight fosse (Wth of base 0.8-1.4m; D 0.05-0.1m) with an outer earthen bank (Wth 2.2-2.6m; H 0.3-0.6m). There is an entrance (Wth 1.1m) at ESE (max. ext. diam. 12.7m NE-SW). 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 Rathconor.

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 Rathconor, 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 Rathconor.

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

Name

Rathconor

Area

4,227,830 m² (422.78 ha, 1,044.72 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober South

Electoral division

Cams, the unit of the census

Census 2022

506 people lived in 164 households in the Cams electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinderry, Cashelmeehan, Coolteige, Gortcloonagh, Kinitty, Mullymucks, Rathmore, Smaghraan, Tonlegee

Placenames

Rathconor 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.