Rathmore
Rathmore is a townland in the civil parish of Crossmolina, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Ráth Mhór.
- Area
- 254.5 ha
- 629 acres
- Land parcels
- 68
- registered freehold, median 25,623 m² (2.56 ha, 6.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmore, from 177 m² to 188,281 m² (18.83 ha, 46.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rathmore 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Jun 2025Conditional
Permission for Development consisting of construction of a silage slab & new slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works.. There will be one building and all effluent will be collected and stored in the proposed/existing slatted tanks. for both the new shed slatted shed and the proposed silage slab. The slatted shed will be 7.642m in height and is going to be constructed in an existing farmyard our clients family have been farming in for years.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560359
10 Oct 2024Conditional
Planning permission to 1): Demolish single storey extension to rear of existing house, 2): Construct new extension to rear of existing house, 3): Refurbish existing house to include removal of 3No chimney stacks, alterations to front elevation windows, construct new feature extension on front elevation and to upgrade roof structure and finishes., 4): Upgrade on site waste water treatment system to EPA 2021 standards & 5): Carry out all ancillary site works including the removal of temporary mobile home at Rathmore, Crossmolina, Co Mayo
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460639
27 Jul 2024N/a
Planning permission to 1): Demolish single storey extension to rear of existing house, 2): Construct new extension to rear of existing house, 3): Refurbish existing house to include removal of 3No chimney stacks, alterations to front elevation windows, construct new feature extension on front elevation and to upgrade roof structure and finishes., 4): Upgrade on site waste water treatment system to EPA 2021 standards & 5): Carry out all ancillary site works at Rathmore, Crossmolina, Co Mayo
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460465
23 Jul 2020Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLLING, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20509
23 Apr 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20276
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
- MA029-019 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.
- MA029-048 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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathmore.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Rathmore, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathmore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rathmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Rathmore · An Ráth Mhór
- Area
- 2,545,062 m² (254.51 ha, 628.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crossmolina, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Deel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 491 people lived in 179 households in the Deel electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Attishane (Joynt), Ballaghamuck, Behy, Enagh Beg, Enagh More, Gortnahurra Upper, Knockbaun
- Placenames
- Rathmore 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.