Roslaher
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeena, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Ros Láthair
- Area
- 21.5 ha
- 53 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 50,634 m² (5.06 ha, 12.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roslaher, from 1,608 m² to 166,918 m² (16.69 ha, 41.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 2 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Roslaher 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
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
14 Mar 2019Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCT NEW BUILDINGS ON THE ORIGINAL FOOTPRINT, COMPRISING OF OFFICES, STAFF FACILITIES, PRESENTATION ROOMS AND STORAGE ROOMS, TOGETHER WITH A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19175
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: Clew Bay Complex SAC 001482
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roslaher.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roslaher.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Roslaher.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Roslaher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Roslaher · Ros Láthair
- Area
- 214,879 m² (21.49 ha, 53.1 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.
- Placenames
- Roslaher 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.