Rathnallog
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcorkey, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 167.2 ha
- 413 acres
- Land parcels
- 77
- registered freehold, median 3,248 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathnallog, from 150 m² to 147,713 m² (14.77 ha, 36.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rathnallog 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
18 Nov 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to construct new straw bedded sheep shed to replace existing storm damaged hayshed, together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560543
9 Nov 2025N/a
Permission to construct a straw bedded sheep shed together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560527
21 Dec 2020Refused
to construct an agricultural shed for farm machinery together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20560
15 Dec 2020N/a
to construct agricultural shed for farm machinery together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20541
6 Oct 2020N/a
to construct an agricultural shed for farm machinery together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20409
8 Jul 2020Conditional
to construct a domestic garage together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20260
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathnallog.
Recorded monuments
- RO021-038 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 35.7m E-W; 34.7m N-S; H 2-2.2m) with slight traces of a bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.3m) at N, defined by a fosse (Wth of top 7.7m at S to 12.3m at N; Wth of base 3-5m; D 1.1-1.5m), with an outer bank (Wth 2-4m; H 0.2-0.3m) WSW-N-SE. The fosse is damaged by a stone structure (dims c. 10m E-W; c. 7m N-S) and pond at S (max. ext. dim. 56.4m E-W). There is a modernised entrance (Wth 3.4m) at NE. Relict field banks extend to the N (L 25m) and E (L 18m) until they encounter an old grass-covered stream bed (Wth 6m; D 0.3m) which approaches from the W, circumscirbes the site N-E and runs off to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO021-040 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle E-facing slope. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 47.6m E-W; 45m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-6m; int. H 0.8-1m generally to 1.5m at W; ext. H 1.6-1.7m) and flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 8.3-10m; Wth of base 4.5-5m; D 0.4-0.7m), with an outer bank (Wth 5m; H 0.2m) SE-WSW (max. ext. dim. 68m N-S). The entrance (Wth 3.4m) is at ESE, and the fosse has been extended into a pond WSW-NNW, while a farm road approaches the perimeter at NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO021-041 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle E-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 31.6m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m) and an outer fosse (Wth of base 3m; D 0.1m) N-E-S. The site is truncated by a NNE-SSW field bank and no visible feature survives W of this. The entrance (Wth 2.2m) is at SSE, and the perimeter at S is cut by a pond. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO021-054 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a broad plateau. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.4m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-4m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 1-1.5m) which is incorporated into a field bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.5m) SE-WSW. There is a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 2.5-3m; D 0.3-0.7m) N-SE, which has been re-dug as a drain SE-WSW. The entrance (Wth 1.6m) is at NNW. A field bank of the field system (RO021-055----) extends NE from the perimeter at NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO021-055001 Field system
Description
On a broad plateau. An area of c. 5 ha (c. 12 acres) contains relict field banks (Wth c. 2-3m; H c. 0.5m), one of which is incorporated into the bank of rath (RO021-054----) at NE. They create some large fields to the NE whose outer limits cannot be determined, and three small plots (dims c. 30-40m x c. 15-20m) running W from the rath. 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 Rathnallog.
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
- 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 Rathnallog.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rathnallog with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Rathnallog
- Area
- 1,671,647 m² (167.16 ha, 413.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcorkey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Bellanagare, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bellanagare electoral division: 693 people in 279 households; 85% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyconboy, Ballyglass, Carrowreagh, Glenballythomas, Moneylea, Rathfuadagh, Rathkineely
- Placenames
- Rathnallog 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.