Rathnarovanagh
Rathnarovanagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Ballintober North, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 73.3 ha
- 181 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 22,342 m² (2.23 ha, 5.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathnarovanagh, from 137 m² to 263,321 m² (26.33 ha, 65.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rathnarovanagh 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
No planning application touches the townland of Rathnarovanagh 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.
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 Rathnarovanagh.
Recorded monuments
- RO017-067 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the bottom of the gentle SW-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 49m NW-SE; 44m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at SW: Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.1m) SE-W-NNW, and elsewhere by a scarp (at NE: H 1.1m) and hedge. The fosse (at NE: Wth of top 3.9; Wth of base 1.7m; D 0.9m; at SW: Wth of top 4.4m; Wth of base 2.8m; D 0.4m) E-S-NW is re-cut as a drain NW-E. There is an outer bank (at SW: Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m) SW-WNW, and a NW-SE field bank bisects the interior. There are modern entrances (Wth 2-2.5m) at S and NW, but the original entrance (Wth 0.9m) is at NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO017-068 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a knoll on the gentle NE-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular grass and rush-covered area (dims 31m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 4.2-4.9m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 1-1.5m), with internal facing stones at NE, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.1-5.7m; Wth of base 2.6-3m; D 0.3m). There is an entrance (Wth 2m) is at ESE. 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 Rathnarovanagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Rathnarovanagh, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathnarovanagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rathnarovanagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Rathnarovanagh
- Area
- 732,957 m² (73.3 ha, 181.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober North
- Electoral division
- Kilmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 184 people lived in 69 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardmacroan, Carrowcuill, Cloonsillagh, Fearagh (Caddell), Rathevin, Tully
- Placenames
- Rathnarovanagh 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.