Raveege
Raveege is a townland in the civil parish of Ballintober, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Ráth Mhíog.
- Area
- 86.9 ha
- 215 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 34,437 m² (3.44 ha, 8.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raveege, from 247 m² to 256,995 m² (25.7 ha, 63.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Raveege 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
15 Sept 2023Conditional
Permission to (1) upgrade septic tank system and (2) retain extensions to side (North West) and rear (South West) elevations and all associated site works at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23371
18 Dec 2018Conditional
construct an extension to side of existing dwelling house and carry out all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18627
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 Raveege.
Recorded monuments
- RO027-053 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the S edge of a broad hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 44.4m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 3-4.5m generally to 7m at E; int. H 0.6-0.9m; ext. H 1.5-1.7m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.4m at S to 8m at E; Wth of base 3-4m; D 0.5-0.8m) from an outer bank (Wth 2m; H 0.3m) which only survives WNW-N-E. There is a stone-lined entrance (Wth 1.7m), but no causeway, at SE, and a modern entrance through both banks at N (max. ext. diam. 63m E-W). 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 Raveege.
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 Raveege, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Raveege.
- 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 Raveege with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Raveege · Ráth Mhíog
- Area
- 869,229 m² (86.92 ha, 214.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballintober, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Castleteheen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 324 people lived in 131 households in the Castleteheen electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowbaun, Enfield, Knockalaghta (Sandford), Knockalaghta (Wills), Rathnalulleagh
- Placenames
- Raveege 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.