Ross West
Ross West is a townland in the civil parish of Turlough, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Ros Thiar.
- Area
- 177.9 ha
- 440 acres
- Land parcels
- 56
- registered freehold, median 9,809 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ross West, from 358 m² to 289,470 m² (28.95 ha, 71.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Ross West 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
20 Jan 2026Conditional
Permission for Alterations to previously approved plans granted under planning reference P25/60111
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660059
17 Nov 2025Conditional
The development consists of the retention of the extension to existing CVRT centre together with all ancillary site works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560819
3 Mar 2025Conditional
Permission to Construct Extension to Existing Ancillary Outbuilding for Domestic Use and Associated Siteworks & Services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560111
17 Dec 2024N/a
Permission to Construct Extension at Existing Cottage and Associated Siteworks & Services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460772
7 Oct 2024Conditional
Construction of a Dwelling House & Demolition of existing with new wastewater treatment system at Ross West, Castlebar, Co Mayo
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460628
20 Feb 2023N/a
Section 5 Declaration: Outdoor toilets, sanitary area ancillary to school, together with operating school hours with after school service
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2382
24 Nov 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A 180M2 3-BEDROOM DWELLING HOUSE, STORAGE SHED, ACCESS LANE-WAY AND THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20912
5 Jul 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS AND THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND SHEDS ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19512
14 Sept 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18708
27 Feb 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO EXISTING TEST CENTRE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17119
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Cunnagher More Bog NHA 002420
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ross West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ross West.
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 Ross West, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ross West.
- 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 Ross West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Ross West · An Ros Thiar
- Area
- 1,779,255 m² (177.93 ha, 439.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Turlough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Pontoon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 512 people lived in 180 households in the Pontoon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crumlin, Garraghill, Ross East, Sallagher, Sranalee
- Placenames
- Ross West 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.