Usna

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Usna, from 131 m² to 269,017 m² (26.9 ha, 66.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Usna 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 Usna 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Drumharlow 001643

Recorded monuments

• RO006-114 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of a rise. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 30m E-W; 26.8m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.2m generally to 1.2m at N; ext. H 0.6-1m) WNW-E, which is the townland boundary with Toberataravan, but the perimeter is reduced to a scarp (H 0.5-0.8m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, and the interior now functions as a golfing green with bunkers outside the perimeter ESE-SSW. Cashel (RO006-115001-) is c. 190m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 25 May 2015

• RO006-115001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a shelf on a SE-facing slope overlooking the floodplain of the Boyle River and Lough Eiden, c. 350m to the E. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 30.5m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by an overgrown stone spread (Wth 2.7m at N to 4.3-5m generally; int. H 0.3m at E to 0.6-0.8m generally; ext. H 0.3-0.5m E-S to 0.7-0.9m W-N). There is no visible entrance, but there is a house site (RO006-115002-) (int. dims 10m N-S; 5.2m) inside the perimeter at NE defined by the base of stone walls (Wth 0.8m) at N and W and the inner edge of the cashel perimeter at E. Rath (RO006-114----) is c. 190m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-115002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  On a shelf on a SE-facing slope overlooking the floodplain of the Boyle River and Lough Eiden, c. 350m to the E. There is a house site (int. dims 10m N-S; 5.2m) inside the perimeter of cashel (RO006-115001-) at NE defined by the base of stone walls (Wth 0.8m) at N and W and the inner edge of the cashel perimeter at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-169 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the top of the NW-facing slope of a rise. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.7-1m) E-S-W, and a scarp (max. H 1m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or recognisable entrance, and the interior is overlain by an E-W field bank towards the perimeter at N. Rath (RO006-168---) is c. 160m to the NW and rath (RO006-172----) is c. 200m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-171 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On a flat low-lying landscape within a golf-course. Described (de Valera and O 'Nuallain 1972, 33-4) as a gallery (dims 8.5m E-W; 1-1.7m N-S) with seven side-stones on the N and ten on the S sides, and with one lintel at the E end. The W end is separated by a septal stone from a portico (dims 1.5m x c. 1.5m) which has two facade stones to the N. It was within a trapezoidal cairn or mound (dims c. 10m E-W; c. 2.5m N-S at E to c. 7.5m N-S at W) defined by kerbstones at N and S. It is now visible as a circular, rounded and grass-covered mound (diam. c. 24m; H 1.6-2m) with the capstone of the gallery just visible on its summit. Rath (RO006-172----) is c. 80m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

• RO006-172 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a hill within a golf course. Oval grass-covered area (dims. c. 48m NE-SW; c. 33m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (max. H 1.4m) NE-S and as a scarp down to the interior (H 0.5m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (RO006-169----) is c. 200m to the W. Wedge tomb (RO006-171----) is c. 80m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-206 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a low-lying landscape with an E-W stream to the N. The excavation (Henry 2000b) of an oval mound of broken and burnt stones (dims. 10m E-W; 7.6m N-S; T 0.1m) revealed an trough (dims. 2.1m E-W; 1.3m N-S) which had a base of ash planks and one side composed of wattle. A plank produced a C14 date of 3783 +- 56 BP. Two paved areas (upper: dims. 12m E-W; 4m N-S; lower: dims. 14m E-W; 5m N-S) overlying each other and post-dating the mound were recorded just W of the mound. 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 Usna.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1396 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Usna

Area

830,335 m² (83.03 ha, 205.18 acres)

Civil parish

Tumna, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Oakport, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Oakport electoral division: 523 people in 198 households; 75% of households own their home; 64% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardconra, Garrowlougher, Hughestown, Lismulkeare, Toberataravan

Placenames

Usna 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.