Runnaruag

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Runnaruag, from 1,691 m² to 333,860 m² (33.39 ha, 82.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Runnaruag 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 Runnaruag 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 Runnaruag.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a rise in a gently undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 22m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.6-5.7m; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 1.1.-1.5m) SE-W-NE which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.9m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-028001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope at the tip of a W-E spur overlooking a slight coll with valleys off it to the N and S. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 28.5m NE-SW; 28.2m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3-4.5m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 1-1.7m) SE-W-NNW which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.6-2.2m) elsewhere. The ramp entrance (Wth 2.2m) is at SE, the lowest point of the perimeter, and a rectangular grass-covered enclosure or annexe (RO022-028002-) (dims 30m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) defined by scarps (H 0.5-1m) is attached to the W. Enclosure (RO022-031001-) is c. 190m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-028002 Enclosure
  Description

  On an E-facing slope at the tip of a W-E spur overlooking a slight coll with valleys off it to the N and S. A rectangular grass-covered enclosure or annexe (dims 30m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) defined by scarps (H 0.5-1m) is attached to the W of rath (RO022-028001-). 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 Runnaruag.

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

At the centre of the townland of Runnaruag, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Runnaruag with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Runnaruag

Area

601,773 m² (60.18 ha, 148.7 acres)

Civil parish

Elphin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Rossmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

169 people lived in 58 households in the Rossmore electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clogher More, Creeve, Gortnacrannagh, Lisnagard, Raheen, Ross Beg

Placenames

Runnaruag 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.