Rosbeg

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Rosbeg, from 117,803 m² (11.78 ha, 29.11 acres) to 117,803 m² (11.78 ha, 29.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 1 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 Rosbeg 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.

• 28 Oct 2025Conditional

  Demolition and removal of existing dwelling house and construction of replacement family dwelling house with associated and ancillary landscaping and site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560757

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Clew Bay Complex SAC 001482
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482

Recorded monuments

• MA076-004 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  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) Date of upload: 6 January 2012

• MA076-005 House - 16th/17th century
  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.

• MA076-005001 Bullaun stone
  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

• Ross House, house, 1800–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1838, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch with single-bay (two-bay deep) full-height central return (north). "Improved", pre-1897, producing present composition. Part refenestrated. Hipped gabled slate roof on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles centred on paired cement rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on box eaves retaining some cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls centred on fine roughcast walls to porch with "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice below blocking course; limewashed lime rendered surface finish (north). Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows to front (south) elevation retaining two-over-two timber sash windows (remainder) having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled splayed reveals or shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with fluted cast-iron colonette piers to perimeter supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron "farm gate".

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Rosbeg.

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Rosbeg, Westport17 sales

Name

Rosbeg · An Ros Beag

Area

117,567 m² (11.76 ha, 29.05 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeena, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Derryloughan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derryloughan electoral division: 771 people in 280 households; 84% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Roslaher

Placenames

Rosbeg 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.