Ratheskin

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ratheskin, from 316 m² to 304,380 m² (30.44 ha, 75.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ratheskin 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.

• 19 May 2025Conditional

  construct 2 no. extensions and carry out alterations to existing community building. To construct an astro turf pitch with associated floodlights, to provide floodlights to existing GAA football pitch, provide a children's play area and to carry out all ancillary site works required

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25196

• 27 Nov 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18945

• 30 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED WORKS, ACCESS TO THE PUBLIC ROAD AND CARRY OUT ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17520

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 Ratheskin.

Recorded monuments

• MA021-002 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• MA021-003 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• MA021-007 Ritual site - holy well
  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.

• MA021-024002 Children's burial ground
  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ratheskin, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ratheskin · Ráth Sheiscinn

Area

2,471,288 m² (247.13 ha, 610.67 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfian, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Kilfian East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

242 people lived in 89 households in the Kilfian East electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belladooan, Breaghwyanteean, Breaghwyanurlaur, Creevagh More, Doonanarroo Upper, Glenedagh Eighter, Glenedagh Oughter

Placenames

Ratheskin 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.