# Ross (Bourke), Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killala, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Ros (Bourke).

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 557,244 m² (55.72 ha, 137.7 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,254 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killala, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/killala.md
- Barony: Tirawley
- Electoral division: Killala, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,325 people lived in 512 households in the Killala electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34537
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152829
- Centre: latitude 54.227899, longitude -9.220781 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ross (Bourke), from 822 m² to 136,498 m² (13.65 ha, 33.73 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1003867: 136,498 m² (13.65 ha, 33.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003867.md
- Parcel 910300: 111,469 m² (11.15 ha, 27.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910300.md
- Parcel 891571: 106,373 m² (10.64 ha, 26.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/891571.md
- Parcel 903942: 59,987 m² (6 ha, 14.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903942.md
- Parcel 899711: 26,082 m² (2.61 ha, 6.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/899711.md
- Parcel 894685: 25,944 m² (2.59 ha, 6.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/894685.md
- Parcel 977802: 17,747 m² (1.77 ha, 4.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977802.md
- Parcel 903449: 15,804 m² (1.58 ha, 3.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903449.md
- Parcel 4797768: 8,908 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4797768.md
- Parcel 5501619: 4,146 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5501619.md
- Parcel 2749448: 3,490 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2749448.md
- Parcel 956241: 3,425 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/956241.md
- Parcel 2711784: 3,391 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2711784.md
- Parcel 4950190: 3,116 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950190.md
- Parcel 4950192: 3,067 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950192.md
- Parcel 4950203: 3,059 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950203.md
- Parcel 4950183: 3,040 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950183.md
- Parcel 4950198: 3,031 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950198.md
- Parcel 4950187: 3,005 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950187.md
- Parcel 4950195: 2,989 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950195.md
- Parcel 4950205: 2,973 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950205.md
- Parcel 4950209: 2,969 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950209.md
- Parcel 3766633: 2,329 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766633.md
- Parcel 954820: 2,300 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/954820.md
- Parcel 4950323: 1,405 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950323.md
- Parcel 4950321: 822 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950321.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ross (Bourke) 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)

2 applications, newest first.

- 24 Aug 2018, Mayo County Council 18652: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P17/370, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18652/0
- 16 May 2017, Mayo County Council 17370: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/17370/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SAC, site code 000458, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000458
- Special Protection Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SPA, site code 004036, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004036
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary, site code 000458

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA015-036: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA015-036----. In pasture, located in a sheltered dip on the SW side of a low ridge, overlooking a valley of wettish pasture. A raised spur of the ridge blocks views to NW, and a low rise restricts views to NE. The shoreline of Killala Bay is 400m to E. Raise oval area (29.8m E–W; 20m N–S) defined by the remnants of an earthen bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.7m at S), reduced at NW–NE to a scarp (H 0.65m at N). The interior is level. Several low parallel linear ridges, on a roughly E–W axis, traversing the interior; these appear to be relict cultivation ridges. The W terminal of the most southerly cultivation ridge expands into a sod-coved stony mound (5.6m E–W; 2.6m N–S; H 0.6m), most likely a field clearance cairn. At NE traces of a levelled field fence, on a NW–SE axis, abut the bank. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 December 2018
- MA015-037: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA015-037----. In average pasture, located on a rise overlooking an inlet on the SW side of Killala Bay. The ground falls away gently to SE for 50m to the shoreline. There are good views over the surrounding gently undulating coastal pasture and over Killala Bay. Slightly raised, oval area (30.6m NNW–SSE; 26.5m ENE–WSW) enclosed by a bank, largely reduced to a scarp. At S–W the bank appears as a broad, low earthen rise (Wth c. 4-5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.4m at W) with stones protruding randomly from the top and external slope. Elsewhere the bank survives as a scarp, retaining a slight internal lip in parts. The interior ground level appears higher in the NW quadrant. A later field boundary on a NE–SW axis, shown bisecting the centre of the interior on the 1922 OS 6-inch map, has been removed. Remnants of another field boundary extend on a NNW–SSE axis across the W edge of the interior. Intersecting with the latter, at its NW end, is a low stony sod-covered rise (L 8-10m NW–SE; 1.4m NE−SW; H 0.2m) which extends on a roughly NW−SE axis, through the centre of the interior. There is a break (Wth 4m) in the bank at W, from which a shallow depression extends for c. 6m to E into the interior. A field fence, on a NE–SW axis, clips the external slope of the bank at SE–S, and the remnants of another field fence, on a roughly N–S axis, abut the external face of the bank at S–W. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 December 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 Ross (Bourke).

## 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 Ross (Bourke), 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 Ross (Bourke).
- 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/ross-bourke.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ross-bourke.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ross-bourke.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ross (Bourke) 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)

- Croghan: https://everytownland.com/mayo/croghan.md
- Killybrone: https://everytownland.com/mayo/killybrone.md
- Ross (Fallon): https://everytownland.com/mayo/ross-fallon.md
- Ross (Gardiner): https://everytownland.com/mayo/ross-gardiner.md
- Ross (Goodwin): https://everytownland.com/mayo/ross-goodwin.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.

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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.

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