Roscrib West
Roscrib West is a townland in the civil parish of Toomour, barony of Corran, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Ros Crib Thiar.
- Area
- 57.3 ha
- 142 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 72,558 m² (7.26 ha, 17.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roscrib West, from 4,565 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres) to 487,424 m² (48.74 ha, 120.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Roscrib West 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
6 May 2026Conditional
Construct an agricultural storage shed (total floor area 380 sq.m ) and carry out ancillary site development works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660174
6 Jul 2020Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a slatted cubicle shed and loose area with underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 20207
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 Roscrib West.
Recorded monuments
- SL033-205 Ringfort - rath
Description
In low-lying wet pasture. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 267-8) as a dark circular cropmark (diam. c. 60m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roscrib West.
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 Roscrib West, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Roscrib West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Roscrib West · Ros Crib Thiar
- Area
- 573,138 m² (57.31 ha, 141.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Toomour, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corran
- Electoral division
- Ballymote, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,269 people lived in 927 households in the Ballymote electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardsallagh, Bellanascarrow East, Cletty, Lavally, Mullaghcor, Roscrib East
- Placenames
- Roscrib West 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.