Rathcarreen

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcarreen, from 11,615 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres) to 142,753 m² (14.28 ha, 35.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Rathcarreen 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.

• 21 May 2025Conditional

  Planning permission for an extension (138.1m2) to the existing Carra Bar building including the construction of a new balcony within the grounds of Ballinrobe Racecourse. The proposal will include all associated site development works with connections to the existing services, all in the townland of Rathcarren, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560313

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  NEW CANTEEN FACILITY (110M2) TO INCLUDE STORE AND DISABLED TOILET. INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVCIES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 211372

• 11 Mar 2021Conditional

  NEW 2810 SQM TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING ENGINEERING FACILITY COMPRISING A NEW ENTRANCE, SHOWROOM AND RECEPTION AREA, TOGETHER WITH OFFICES, TRAINING FACILITIES AND ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION. NEW STAFF AND VISITOR PARKING WILL ACCOMPANY THE DEVELOPMENT WITH ASSOCIATED LANDSCAPE, SITE WORKS AND SIGNAGE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21211

• 21 Apr 2020Conditional

  EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING LIGHT INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING FACILITY WITH ASSOCIATED SERVICES.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20272

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 Rathcarreen.

Recorded monuments

• MA118-001001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In golf course, formerly pasture on NE-facing slope. Circular area (40m N-S; 37.5m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.8m), partly levelled on E, with external fosse D (3.1m); outer bank S to W. Souterrain (MA118-001002-) in N sector of tree-lined interior. Racecourse skirts E side. Site preserved as National Monument. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 203. Date of upload: 11 November 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 28/1976).

• MA118-001002 Souterrain
  Description

  In N half of ringfort (MA118-001001-). Stone-built chamber (L 16m; Wth 1m; H 1.4m), orientated E-W. Openings at both ends. Constructed of nine courses of dry-stone overlaid by capstones. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 528. Date of upload: 11 November 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 28/1976).

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathcarreen · Ráth Chairrín

Area

593,536 m² (59.35 ha, 146.67 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinrobe, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Ballinrobe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinrobe electoral division: 4,118 people in 1,517 households; 62% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creagh Demesne, Knocknagulshy, Rathredmond

Placenames

Rathcarreen 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.