Rathmoyle

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmoyle, from 29 m² to 221,418 m² (22.14 ha, 54.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathmoyle 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rathmoyle 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.

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• RO021-047 Field system
  Description

  On the W and S-facing slope of a low rise. An area of c. 18 acres (c. 7 ha) contains the remains of earthen banks (Wth c. 2.5m; H 0.3m) and silted drains (Wth c. 1m) forming large rectangular fields (dims. c. 200m x c. 50-100m). One field bank truncates the perimeter of rath (RO021-065----) at the E of the complex. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-065001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1929 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a knoll on a gentle W and S-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered convex area (dims 26.5m N-S; 26.5m E-W; H 0.7m at E to 1.6-1.8m generally) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at W to 1.4m at S) at its base, with a berm (Wth 2-3m) NE-E and S-NW. The straight edge (L 14.5m) at N is parallel with a field bank, now removed, 6m distant of field system (RO021-047----). There is a ramp entrance (Wth 3m) at S Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-066 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Marked only on the 1929 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a polygonal wooded enclosure (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 40m N-S), and situated on a level landscape in full view of Rathmoyle House c. 1km to the NNE. Subrectangular grass-covered area (dims c. 35m N-S; c. 40m E-W) with old tree stumps defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m) with some scrub and an outer drain (Wth 1.2m; D 0.4m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-070 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Marked only on the 1929 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a subsicrular wooded area, and situated towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. Circular grass and rush-covered area (int. diam. 44m E-W) defined by a hedge and slight ditch (Wth 2.5m; D 0.1-0.2m) with some tree stumps in the interior. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-071 Field system
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope. An area of c. 9 ha (c. 23 acres) contains relict field banks (Wth c. 2m; H c. 0.5m) forming rectangular fields (dims. c. 50m x c. 100m to c. 100m x 200m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-101 Sweathouse
  Description

  On a level landscape with no houses in the immediate vicinity. D-shaped sunken area (dims. 2.2m NE-SW; 1.7m NW-SE; max. D 0.5m) within a D-shaped grass-covered mound (dims. 7.4m NE-SW; 6.6m NW-SE; H 0.8m) with an entrance (Wth 1.3m) in the centre of the straight NW side. 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 Rathmoyle.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Rathmoyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Rathmoyle

Area

2,203,742 m² (220.37 ha, 544.56 acres)

Civil parish

Baslick, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Castleplunket, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindollaghan (Knox), Ballyglass, Caddellbrook, Gortnasillagh, Kanefield, Kilmurry

Placenames

Rathmoyle 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.