# Ratheskin, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilfian, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Ráth Sheiscinn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,471,288 m² (247.13 ha, 610.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,412 m² (2.84 ha, 7.02 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilfian, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilfian.md - Barony: Tirawley - Electoral division: Kilfian East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34451 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152729 - Centre: latitude 54.207351, longitude -9.361712 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ratheskin, from 316 m² to 304,380 m² (30.44 ha, 75.21 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 891501: 304,380 m² (30.44 ha, 75.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/891501.md - Parcel 882398: 226,813 m² (22.68 ha, 56.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/882398.md - Parcel 910229: 176,059 m² (17.61 ha, 43.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910229.md - Parcel 905761: 153,675 m² (15.37 ha, 37.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/905761.md - Parcel 910044: 113,798 m² (11.38 ha, 28.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910044.md - Parcel 969403: 95,063 m² (9.51 ha, 23.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/969403.md - Parcel 880421: 85,001 m² (8.5 ha, 21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/880421.md - Parcel 985584: 76,329 m² (7.63 ha, 18.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985584.md - Parcel 886547: 74,711 m² (7.47 ha, 18.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/886547.md - Parcel 888350: 67,587 m² (6.76 ha, 16.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/888350.md - Parcel 5095281: 65,685 m² (6.57 ha, 16.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5095281.md - Parcel 976884: 61,953 m² (6.2 ha, 15.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976884.md - Parcel 977809: 59,504 m² (5.95 ha, 14.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977809.md - Parcel 955507: 57,429 m² (5.74 ha, 14.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955507.md - Parcel 1003894: 55,832 m² (5.58 ha, 13.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003894.md - Parcel 980798: 46,553 m² (4.66 ha, 11.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980798.md - Parcel 975265: 35,725 m² (3.57 ha, 8.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/975265.md - Parcel 918314: 34,623 m² (3.46 ha, 8.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/918314.md - Parcel 917183: 33,388 m² (3.34 ha, 8.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917183.md - Parcel 917522: 32,901 m² (3.29 ha, 8.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917522.md - Parcel 998383: 32,638 m² (3.26 ha, 8.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/998383.md - Parcel 918323: 32,453 m² (3.25 ha, 8.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/918323.md - Parcel 955472: 32,418 m² (3.24 ha, 8.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955472.md - Parcel 917180: 32,330 m² (3.23 ha, 7.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917180.md - Parcel 954299: 31,974 m² (3.2 ha, 7.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/954299.md - Parcel 917184: 31,956 m² (3.2 ha, 7.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917184.md - Parcel 917182: 31,351 m² (3.14 ha, 7.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917182.md - Parcel 917181: 30,721 m² (3.07 ha, 7.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917181.md - Parcel 888782: 29,740 m² (2.97 ha, 7.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/888782.md - Parcel 918313: 28,841 m² (2.88 ha, 7.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/918313.md - Parcel 890470: 27,983 m² (2.8 ha, 6.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890470.md - Parcel 927850: 25,968 m² (2.6 ha, 6.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/927850.md - Parcel 1008855: 25,483 m² (2.55 ha, 6.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1008855.md - Parcel 940064: 22,159 m² (2.22 ha, 5.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/940064.md - Parcel 974800: 22,055 m² (2.21 ha, 5.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/974800.md - Parcel 928667: 18,281 m² (1.83 ha, 4.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/928667.md - Parcel 945489: 18,109 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/945489.md - Parcel 4064523: 15,935 m² (1.59 ha, 3.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4064523.md - Parcel 893601: 14,176 m² (1.42 ha, 3.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/893601.md - Parcel 898724: 12,431 m² (1.24 ha, 3.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/898724.md - Parcel 1009697: 11,295 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1009697.md - Parcel 925959: 11,233 m² (1.12 ha, 2.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/925959.md - Parcel 937972: 8,921 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937972.md - Parcel 930332: 7,629 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/930332.md - Parcel 928394: 7,480 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/928394.md - Parcel 940338: 6,509 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/940338.md - Parcel 906832: 6,193 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/906832.md - Parcel 996130: 5,560 m² (0.56 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/996130.md - Parcel 928759: 4,812 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/928759.md - Parcel 4965373: 4,664 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4965373.md - Parcel 919255: 4,262 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/919255.md - Parcel 948048: 4,155 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/948048.md - Parcel 964471: 3,853 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/964471.md - Parcel 5374338: 3,257 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5374338.md - Parcel 919903: 2,066 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/919903.md - Parcel 952472: 1,918 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/952472.md - Parcel 926319: 1,878 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/926319.md - Parcel 951000: 1,008 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/951000.md - Parcel 917514: 626 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/917514.md - Parcel 992114: 316 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/992114.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 19 May 2025, Mayo County Council 25196: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/25196/0 - 27 Nov 2018, Mayo County Council 18945: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18945/0 - 30 Jun 2017, Mayo County Council 17520: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED WORKS, ACCESS TO THE PUBLIC ROAD AND CARRY OUT ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/17520/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Ratheskin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA021-002: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA021-002----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA021-003----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA021-007----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA021-024002-. 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. 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 Ratheskin. ## 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 Ratheskin, 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 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 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/ratheskin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ratheskin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ratheskin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ratheskin 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) - Belladooan: https://everytownland.com/mayo/belladooan.md - Breaghwyanteean: https://everytownland.com/mayo/breaghwyanteean.md - Breaghwyanurlaur: https://everytownland.com/mayo/breaghwyanurlaur.md - Creevagh More: https://everytownland.com/mayo/creevagh-more.md - Doonanarroo Upper: https://everytownland.com/mayo/doonanarroo-upper.md - Glenedagh Eighter: https://everytownland.com/mayo/glenedagh-eighter.md - Glenedagh Oughter: https://everytownland.com/mayo/glenedagh-oughter.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/ratheskin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/ratheskin