Rocksborough South

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rocksborough South, from 90 m² to 67,164 m² (6.72 ha, 16.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Rocksborough South 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.

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct a private dwelling house , a private Garage, with on site waste water treatment system, and all other site services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560750

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

• 24 Jun 2024Conditional

  retention of single storey house as constructed on revised largely increased site boundaries to that granted planning under P02/2399

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 24241

• 26 Sept 2019Conditional

  RETAIN A SERVICED DWELLING AND HORSE STABLES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 19754

• 13 Aug 2019Conditional

  RETAIN AND COMPLETE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES, P18/579 REFERS

  Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19624

• 26 Jun 2019N/a

  RETAIN AND COMPLETE MINOR AMENDMENTS, INCLUDING FOR THE CONVERSION OF ATTIC SPACE TO HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION, TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES P18/579 REFERS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 19494

• 27 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18579

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 Rocksborough South.

Recorded monuments

• MA110-043 Church
  Description

  In level pasture, poorly preserved ruins of rectangular church (5.7m N-S; 11.5m E-W), built with roughly coursed limestone; missing S wall; surviving portions of N and E walls in poor condition. W gable (H 4.8m) contains blocked up window. No trace of doorway or associated grave markers. 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. 629. Date of upload: 28 October 2013

• MA110-044 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough pasture. Circular area (40m N-S; 41m E-W), enclosed by substantial stone wall (H 0.8m; Wth 1.2m); inner and outer facings well perserved. Interior overgrown, contains depression in NW, possible souterrain (MA110-044001-). 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. 296. Date of upload: 28 October 2013

• MA110-044001 Souterrain
  Description

  An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District (1994; p. 73, no. 548) records that a depression in the NW quadrant of a cashel (MA110-044----) may indicate a souterrain. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 October 2013 Lavelle, D. (compiler) 1994. An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rocksborough South.

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

Name

Rocksborough South · Ceathrú an Chlochair Theas

Area

724,714 m² (72.47 ha, 179.08 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

Cloonee, Knockadoon, Knockglass, Liskilleen, Rocksborough North

Placenames

Rocksborough South 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.