# Rathfranpark, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templemurry, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Páirc Ráth Bhrannaibh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 520,850 m² (52.09 ha, 128.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,667 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Templemurry, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/templemurry.md - Barony: Tirawley - Electoral division: Lackan South, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 460 people lived in 181 households in the Lackan South electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34616 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152731 - Centre: latitude 54.237847, longitude -9.250572 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathfranpark, from 373 m² to 218,351 m² (21.84 ha, 53.96 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 961899: 218,351 m² (21.84 ha, 53.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/961899.md - Parcel 986752: 82,627 m² (8.26 ha, 20.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/986752.md - Parcel 890451: 69,279 m² (6.93 ha, 17.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890451.md - Parcel 873399: 47,442 m² (4.74 ha, 11.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873399.md - Parcel 877704: 36,173 m² (3.62 ha, 8.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/877704.md - Parcel 894681: 35,159 m² (3.52 ha, 8.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/894681.md - Parcel 992091: 20,000 m² (2 ha, 4.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/992091.md - Parcel 3916870: 3,185 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3916870.md - Parcel 954255: 2,149 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/954255.md - Parcel 1005071: 1,791 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1005071.md - Parcel 976863: 1,429 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/976863.md - Parcel 882379: 1,417 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/882379.md - Parcel 965163: 893 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/965163.md - Parcel 886533: 598 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/886533.md - Parcel 876681: 458 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/876681.md - Parcel 5512956: 373 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5512956.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rathfranpark 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 Rathfranpark in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SPA, site code 004036, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004036 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA015-027001: Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA015-027001-. See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) This is a national monument (no. 633) in state care. Date of upload: 2 January 2012 - MA015-027002: Stone circle, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA015-027002-. In pasture, located on a level elevated ground overlooking the estuary of the Palmerstown River to S-SE. A few meters to SE there is a gradual fall of ground, in gentle undulations, towards the river. Nephin and the Nephin Beg range are visible to S-SW. A wedge tomb (MA015-027001) is located c. 30-40m to SW. This was described in the 1838 OS Letters as a 'monument which does not appear to preserve its original form.' (O’Flanagan, 1927, 183-4 (98)). It was classed as a stone circle by de Valera & Ó Nualláin (1964, 32) and recorded as follows: 'Marked "Cromlech" on O.S. 6" 1837. This monument, which was a stone circle, has been totally removed since 1951 and the debris from it has been dumped on the east end of the nearby tomb [MA015-027001-]." Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 November 2018 - MA015-029: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA015-029----. Located on a low rise in rolling pasture with gradual fall of ground to SE towards the Palmerstown River. There is rath (MA015-030----) c. 150m to SSE. This possible ringfort is shown on the1838 and 1922 OS maps as a circular enclosure (diam. 25-30m). It was levelled during land reclamation works; there is no visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 November 2018 - MA015-030: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA015-030----. Straddles a low rise in rolling pasture, with a gradual fall of ground to SE towards the Palmerstown River. Roughly circular, raised area (28.8m NE-SW; 25.6m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.6m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.55m at SW, c. 2m at NE). The bank is generally rather low, with a broad internal slump. Stones protruding from on the internal face at the SW-W may be the remnants of a kerb or stone facing. A section (L12m) of the bank at the ESE-S has been levelled and survives only a low rise. The original entrance may have been in this area. The interior slopes down gently from centre to SE. There is a shallow, circular hollow (diam. 1.2m; D0.2m) in the N of the interior. A section (L 4m) of the external face of the bank at NNW has been cut away, and there is also evidence of erosion of the bank by farm stock. Field fences skirt the rath at SE, S and W. A possible rath (MA015-030----), now destroyed, is located c. 150m to NNW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 November 2018 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 Rathfranpark. ## 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 Rathfranpark, 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 Rathfranpark. - 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/rathfranpark.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rathfranpark.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rathfranpark.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rathfranpark 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) - Breastagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/breastagh.md - Carbad Beg: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carbad-beg.md - Carbad More: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carbad-more.md - Cloonboy: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonboy-150932.md - Fallataggart: https://everytownland.com/mayo/fallataggart.md - Rathfran: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rathfran.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/rathfranpark - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/rathfranpark