Rathfuadagh

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathfuadagh, from 452 m² to 183,195 m² (18.32 ha, 45.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Rathfuadagh 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.

• 21 Feb 2022Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works and Retention Permission for existing agricultural grain storage shed at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2299

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 Rathfuadagh.

Recorded monuments

• RO021-056001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the outer edge of a shelf on a gentle N-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area with potato ridges (dims 27.1m NNE-SSW; 23.3m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2-3m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.8-1.6m), with a slight external berm (Wth 0.8m) at the base of the bank NNW-SE. There is a complete outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 2.2-3.7m; D 0.1-0.3m), which may have been re-cut (Wth of base 1.7m) NNW-E, creating an outer bank (Wth c. 5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.1m) NNW-E. The original entrance cannot be identified, but there is a rectangular house-site (RO021-056002-) (int. dims 7.5m E-W; 3m N-S) abutting the inside of the bank at S defined by earthen banks (Wth 1.5-3m; H 0.1-0.3m) with an entrance (Wth 2.3m) at N. The rath bank is quarried at SW, and there is a quarry inside the perimeter at W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-056002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  There is a rectangular house-site (int. dims 7.5m E-W; 3m N-S) abutting the inside of the bank at S defined by clay banks (Wth 1.5-3m; H 0.1-0.3m) with an entrance (Wth 2.3m) at N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-073002 Field system
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: V206/10-11), and situated in a slight fold on an undulating landscape. Triangular area (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 30m E-W at S) SE of enclosure (RO021-073001-) divided into smaller plots by stone spreads (Wth c. 1m; H c. 0.2m). It encloses c. 1.5 acres (c. 0.5 ha). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 35.5m N-S; 34.6m E-W) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.8m) N-NNE and by a scarp (H 1.6m to 2.2m at W) elsewhere, with traces of a fosse (Wth of base 2-4m; D 0.2m) N-NNE and W-NW. The ramp entrance (Wth 4m) is at SW. Archaeological testing (07E0788) c. 30m to the W failed to produce any related material (Henry 2011). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20th June 2011

• RO021-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in an undulating landscape. Oval grass-covered area (dims 65.6m NNE-SSW; 51.7m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5-3.5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.6-1.1m generally to 1.5m at S). The flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 6.2m; D 0.1m) survives S-WSW, but the original entrance cannot be recognised. It is bisected by a WNW-ESE relict field bank. 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 Rathfuadagh.

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 Rathfuadagh, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathfuadagh

Area

1,370,597 m² (137.06 ha, 338.68 acres)

Civil parish

Baslick, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Castleplunket, the unit of the census

Census 2022

563 people lived in 208 households in the Castleplunket electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balloony, Ballyglass, Carnakit, Glenballythomas, Gortnasillagh, Kanefield, Rathnallog

Placenames

Rathfuadagh 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.