Rover

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rover, from 268 m² to 235,604 m² (23.56 ha, 58.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Rover 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.

• 20 Jul 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of retention of infrastructure. The elements are to be retained for the lifetime of the wind farm. The development consists of blade delivery trestles constructed at the turbine crane hardstands required for the set down and storage of turbine blades at each location, passing bays required for vehicles to pass each other on-site and upgrade and use of 154m of pre-existing tract between Turbines T9 and T10. The retention of these structures is required for continued maintenance of turbines on site.

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 20234

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 Rover.

Recorded monuments

• SL035-071 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying wet ground. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular area (c. 25m N-S; c. 25m E-W) with straight N, E and S sides and a slightly curving W side. It is not visible at ground level; adjacent field boundaries have been removed. 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

• SL035-072 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying wet ground to N of a river. Indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as slightly modified with a linear E side. It is not visible at ground level and adjacent field boundaries have been removed. 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 Rover.

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 Rover, about 1 in 20 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.

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

Name

Rover · Rómhar

Area

2,391,321 m² (239.13 ha, 590.91 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmactranny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Ballynashee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

386 people lived in 148 households in the Ballynashee electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardline, Carrowbaun (Co. Roscommon), Cashel (Co. Roscommon), Crawhill, Derrysallagh, Glen, Gubbarudda (Co. Roscommon), Lisseevin (Co. Roscommon)

Placenames

Rover 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.