Raherolus

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raherolus, from 1,732 m² to 101,301 m² (10.13 ha, 25.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Raherolus 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 Raherolus 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 Raherolus.

Recorded monuments

• MA074-002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough, rocky pasture, interspersed with area of wet, boggy ground, situated on a low rise, with very good views in all directions. A ruined vernacular farmstead lies adjacent at W. Raised circular area (c. 34m N–S; 33.4m E–W) enclosed by the remains of a substantial drystone wall. The wall has collapsed to a largely sod-covered, broad stone bank (Wth c. 6m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 2m at NE, 2.5m at N), with a low internal lip and a pronounced external slump. Within the mass of stone tumble, intact sections of the external wall face can be seen at N and NE, surviving to just a few courses in height, and at SSE where a larger section (L 6m; H 1.6m) is preserved by a vernacular stone-built shed (3.2m NW–SE; 3.5m NE–SW), now ruined, which was built against the wall face. The original width of the wall is uncertain, possibly 2.5-3m wide. A gap (Wth 2m) in the wall at SE, now partly blocked by boulders, may be an original entrance; a large stone on the N side of the gap may be part of an original facing. The interior slopes down slightly from centre to S. A low sod-covered wall (Wth 0.4-0.6m; H 0.4m) crosses the interior centrally on a NNE-SSW axis. There is a small hollow (diam. c. 0.8m; D 0.4m), partly infilled with stones, in the NW quadrant. A laneway, associated with the farmstead, skirts the cashel at W–NE, and later field walls abut the cashel wall at SE and S–SW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 31 May 2021

• MA074-003 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough, rocky pasture, encompassing a lowlying hollow overlooked to NE by a hillock. Subcircular area (40.6m N–S; 37m E–W) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 0.8m; max. H 1.6m), The wall is constructed of random medium-sized, horizontally laid blocks and slabs with some larger stones evident in the basal course. It appears similar in size and construction technique to adjacent field walls, which abut the enclosure at N, E, and SW. It is partly tumbled in places, and largely covered in brambles, ivy and hawthorn. The interior is fairly level and grassy, and is not raised above external ground level but encloses a natural dip in ground level. A rim (Wth 4m E–W) of raised ground borders the inner face of the wall at W. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.4m) at the NNW, facing rising ground; it is bordered on the W side by a large boulder. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 31 May 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Raherolus.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Raherolus.

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 Raherolus with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Raherolus · Ráth Fhireolais

Area

962,659 m² (96.27 ha, 237.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmovee, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Kilmovee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmovee electoral division: 660 people in 265 households; 90% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardkill (Co. Roscommon), Ballyglass, Barnaboy (Co. Roscommon), Cashellahenny, Ishlaun (Co. Roscommon)

Placenames

Raherolus 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.