# Esker North, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Crossboyne, barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Eiscir Thuaidh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 425,009 m² (42.5 ha, 105.02 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,388 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Crossboyne, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/crossboyne.md - Barony: Clanmorris - Electoral division: Crossboyne, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 600 people lived in 215 households in the Crossboyne electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/36216 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151676 - Centre: latitude 53.67444, longitude -8.980658 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Esker North, from 1,391 m² to 103,707 m² (10.37 ha, 25.63 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 937359: 103,707 m² (10.37 ha, 25.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937359.md - Parcel 968278: 77,392 m² (7.74 ha, 19.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/968278.md - Parcel 979963: 54,899 m² (5.49 ha, 13.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/979963.md - Parcel 968279: 52,294 m² (5.23 ha, 12.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/968279.md - Parcel 885544: 51,745 m² (5.17 ha, 12.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/885544.md - Parcel 976113: 51,617 m² (5.16 ha, 12.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976113.md - Parcel 903299: 9,685 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903299.md - Parcel 5193779: 4,388 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5193779.md - Parcel 984787: 3,957 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/984787.md - Parcel 924534: 3,649 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/924534.md - Parcel 956583: 3,185 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/956583.md - Parcel 955175: 2,219 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955175.md - Parcel 950311: 2,200 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/950311.md - Parcel 920635: 1,413 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/920635.md - Parcel 921849: 1,391 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/921849.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Esker North in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Esker North in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Esker North. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA111-030001: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA111-030001-. In pasture, located on a low narrow elongated rise or esker This rath is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure; by the time of the 1930 edition only the W half of the enclosure is shown, depicted as an arc of hachuring (diam. c. 25m NE−SW), enclosed within a narrow wooded space. On both map editions it is named ‘Maguires Fort’. Much of the esker has been quarried away and as a result the rath appears to have been largely destroyed. It is possible that portions of the rath remain intact between the areas of quarrying but this is uncertain. A short length of curving bank (Wth 2.5m; H 0.5m) appears to be all that remains of the enclosing bank; it is located at the N end of the esker, and probably equates with a portion of the NW arc of the rath. The remainder of the rath cannot be traced. An area on the SW side of the esker has been dug away, concreted over and is now used for the storage of silage bales, and a trackway leads N from this to the road that borders the NE side of the field, extending through what would have been the W half of the rath. Beech, ash, sycamore and hawthorn trees, as well as brambles, grow on the surviving remnants of the esker. There is no trace of the children’s burial ground (MA030002-) which was located at the rath. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2022 - MA111-030002: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA111-030002-. In a rath (MA111-030001-). Indicated as ‘Burial Gd.’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and as ‘Children’s Burial Ground’ on the 1930 edition. Quarrying has largely destroyed the rath, and no trace of the burial ground is evident. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2022 - MA111-031: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA111-031----. Located in level, lowlying, poorly-drained pasture. Views are restricted by tree-lined field boundaries. This enclosure is named ‘Lisnapreaghan’ on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (25.5m NW–SE; 25.8 NE–SW), not noticeably raised, enclosed by two shallow, flat-bottomed fosses (Wth 1.4-1.7m; D 0.3-0.45m) with an broad, flat-topped, intervening bank (Wth 5.3m, top 3.1-3.9m; int. H 0.85-1m; ext. H 0.95-1.1m). The bank appears uniform in width and height around its circuit, and both the inner and outer faces are cut quite vertically; the flat top of the bank appears almost like a raised encircling path. There is a gap (Wth 1.1m) at SSE, partly blocked at its outer edge by upcast from a later field ditch which merges with the external fosse at this point. The two fosses are similar in size and form, but the external fosse merges with field ditches bordering field banks which radiate at NW, N and S–SSE from the enclosure. The interior is level, rather soft and damp underfoot and is covered with grass and rushes. The bank is ringed with hawthorn, beech, sycamore, ash and hazel, which grow on the slopes of the bank but not on the top. This is an unusual enclosure. Except in size, it does not conform to the morphology of ringforts in this area, which mostly have an interior raised above surrounding field level. The internal fosse suggests a ritual function, and it may a ringbarrow or henge-type monument. However, the vertical sides of the bank and the merging of field ditches with the external fosse point to relatively recent modification, probably for drainage purposes or possibly adaptation as a tree-ring. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2022 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Esker North. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Esker North, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Esker North. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/esker-north.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/esker-north.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/esker-north.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Esker North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrowlena: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowlena.md - Castlemagarretpark New: https://everytownland.com/mayo/castlemagarretpark-new.md - Drummin East: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drummin-east-151607.md - Esker East: https://everytownland.com/mayo/esker-east.md - Esker South: https://everytownland.com/mayo/esker-south.md - Kilscohagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kilscohagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/esker-north - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/esker-north