Esker

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Esker, from 139 m² to 157,755 m² (15.78 ha, 38.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Esker 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 Esker 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 Esker.

Recorded monuments

• MA061-202 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA061-221 Burial
  Description

  In pasture, located on the summit of a low hillock. Sod-covered, oblong earthen mound (L 2.7m WNW-ESE; max. Wth 1.4m NNE–SSE; H 0.6m) defined by a kerb of longitudinally set upright slabs (L 0.35-0.6m; T 0.01m max; H 0.25-0.4). Two slabs protrude from the SW side, both leaning outwards slightly to S, and three large stones define the NE side. Other stones are visible barely protruding from the sod covering on the top and sides of the mound. Two slabs lie prostrate against the W end of the mound. The mound is known locally as 'The Frenchman's Grave' and, according to tradition, is the grave of one of the soldiers of General Humbert's Army. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 February 2016

• MA062-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on an expanse of lowlying, flat ground. There is a stream/drain 3m to S of the rath, beyond which the ground rises gradually. The location is overlooked 200m to N by an esker on top of which there is a rath (MA062-147----). Another rath (MA062-037----) lies 170m to SW. This rath has been partly levelled, most severely on its E half, but its outline is still clearly visible. It is evident as a slightly raised, oval area (c. 39.3m ESE-WNW; c. 27m NNE-SSW) defined by a low scarp (H 0.3m). The scarp is clearly defined on the W half but is very degraded and uneven at NE−SE. Outside the scarp, the rath is enclosed by two fosses with an intervening bank. The inner fosse (Wth c. 2m) is visible as a shallow depression. The bank (Wth 5.5-7m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.85m, at W) is best preserved at SE-W-NE but is reduced to a low, barely discernible undulation elsewhere. The outermost fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 0.3m at W) can be traced as a shallow depression at SW−N but is not visible at E. The original entrance may have been at W where there is a break (Wth 2.5m) in the bank and a causeway across the outermost fosse. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 November 2016

• MA062-147 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on top of an esker which provides panoramic views of the surrounding countryside, including such distant landmarks as the Ox Mountains, Nephin and Croagh Patrick. The rath is sited on an E−W stretch of the esker, 20m W of the point where the esker rises to a rounded peak and turns to N. The S-facing slope of the esker drops steeply from directly beneath the rath to an expanse of lowlying, damp pasture where another rath (MA062-038----) is located 200m to S; at N the slope falls more gradual to the edge of a flat expanse of bog stretching for over a kilometre N-wards to the banks of the River Moy. The rath consist of a low but clearly defined earthen platform (25m N−S; 33m E−W) defined by a scarp. It straddles the full N−S width of the esker so that the scarp coincides with the natural break of slope of the ridge on the N and S sides. The scarp is higher and most substantial at NW−NE (H 1.4m, Wth slope 3m), where it has been built up to create a level interior. Elsewhere the scarp is lower (H 0.5m), and a particularly low section at W may indicate an original entrance. The interior is relatively flat, but with a slight slope down evident in the N third, reflecting the natural slope of the esker. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 November 2016

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span railway bridge over river, opened 1895; extant 1895. Closed, 1975. Now disused. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered abutment walls with part ivy-covered drag edged rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets centred on riveted cast-iron girder span. Sited spanning Spaddagh River with unkempt embankments to river.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_564 (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 Esker with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Esker · An Eiscir

Area

1,110,407 m² (111.04 ha, 274.39 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconduff, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Swineford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Swineford electoral division: 2,629 people in 1,062 households; 76% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonacannana, Cloonlara, Cloonlumney, Lagcurragh, Lisbaun, Lisbrogan, Lisheenabrone, Lislackagh, Newpark, Rathscanlan, Tawnamullagh

Placenames

Esker 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.