Ratra

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ratra, from 96 m² to 95,813 m² (9.58 ha, 23.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Ratra 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.

• 11 Jun 2019Conditional

  to retain the following:1) Office building with stores and workshop circa 406.5 sq.m. 2) Parts Storage Shed circa 47.2 sq.m. 3) Barn for compressor and equipment circa 39.1 sq.m. 4) Large workshop and shed circa 928.5 sq.m. 5) Storage shed for used machinery parts circa 372.4 sq.m.6) Portacabins circa 35sq.m. 7) Insitu Shipping Containers circa 124 sq.m. 8) Change of use of land from agricultural to commercial use for keeping and parking machinery on and all ancillary wash down bays, pits, petrol interceptors, concrete yard, perimeter fencing , septic tank and all other ancillary site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19309

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Callow Bog SAC 000595
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gara 000587

Recorded monuments

• RO008-049001 Crannog
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map in a bend in a N-S field drain, and situated on a flat, low-lying, peat-covered landscape. Circular grass-covered mound (diam. 13.3m N-S; H 0.4-0.6m) with a drain curving around it to the E. Crannog (RO008-049002-) is c. 20m to the N on the other side of an E-W drain. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a level, low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 31.6m N-S; 30.6m E-W) defined by a an earthen bank (Wth 3.6-3.9m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.6m at E to 1.2m at N) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 1.3m at E to 3m at S; D 0.4-0.6m) from an outer bank (at S: Wth 2.7m; H 0.3m), which is incorporated into a N-S field bank W-WNW and removed WNW-N. There is an entrance (Wth 1.4m) in the inner bank and a causeway (Wth 3m) at E, but the outer bank is eroded here. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low knoll. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 44.5m N-S; 42.8m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4-4.9m; int. H 0.3-0.7m; ext. H 1.3m at E to 1.9m at N to 2.7m S-W), and a fosse (Wth of base 2.5-4.5m; D 0.2m) SW-W-NE. There is a modernised entrance (Wth 4.1m) at ESE, and an E-W road immediately S of the bank at S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

• Ratra, Tibohine5 sales

Name

Ratra · Ráth an tSratha

Area

1,360,857 m² (136.09 ha, 336.28 acres)

Civil parish

Tibohine, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Frenchpark, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cartron Beg, Clashcarragh, Cloonmagunnaun, Glebe East, Keelbanada, Rathkeery, Teevnacreeva, Turlagharee

Placenames

Ratra on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.