# Ross West, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Turlough, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Ros Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,779,255 m² (177.93 ha, 439.66 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,809 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Turlough, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/turlough.md - Barony: Carra - Electoral division: Pontoon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/35898 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152834 - Centre: latitude 53.918631, longitude -9.249893 (WGS 84) ## 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); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 971797: 289,470 m² (28.95 ha, 71.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/971797.md - Parcel 873224: 201,978 m² (20.2 ha, 49.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873224.md - Parcel 884236: 183,480 m² (18.35 ha, 45.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/884236.md - Parcel 953803: 108,505 m² (10.85 ha, 26.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953803.md - Parcel 974250: 88,045 m² (8.8 ha, 21.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/974250.md - Parcel 900098: 87,306 m² (8.73 ha, 21.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900098.md - Parcel 927578: 79,090 m² (7.91 ha, 19.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/927578.md - Parcel 898834: 57,520 m² (5.75 ha, 14.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/898834.md - Parcel 4775351: 44,183 m² (4.42 ha, 10.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4775351.md - Parcel 887172: 43,972 m² (4.4 ha, 10.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/887172.md - Parcel 895080: 41,111 m² (4.11 ha, 10.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895080.md - Parcel 965471: 38,388 m² (3.84 ha, 9.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/965471.md - Parcel 926304: 35,870 m² (3.59 ha, 8.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/926304.md - Parcel 943268: 33,923 m² (3.39 ha, 8.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943268.md - Parcel 933651: 33,484 m² (3.35 ha, 8.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/933651.md - Parcel 1004898: 32,492 m² (3.25 ha, 8.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1004898.md - Parcel 963397: 29,598 m² (2.96 ha, 7.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/963397.md - Parcel 974251: 28,377 m² (2.84 ha, 7.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/974251.md - Parcel 976532: 27,376 m² (2.74 ha, 6.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976532.md - Parcel 933418: 24,776 m² (2.48 ha, 6.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/933418.md - Parcel 945530: 23,960 m² (2.4 ha, 5.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/945530.md - Parcel 903513: 22,100 m² (2.21 ha, 5.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903513.md - Parcel 918672: 20,237 m² (2.02 ha, 5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/918672.md - Parcel 933567: 20,078 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/933567.md - Parcel 943160: 17,632 m² (1.76 ha, 4.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943160.md - Parcel 972668: 15,424 m² (1.54 ha, 3.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972668.md - Parcel 5538472: 12,393 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5538472.md - Parcel 946115: 11,276 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/946115.md - Parcel 940158: 8,342 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/940158.md - Parcel 879729: 8,170 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/879729.md - Parcel 964646: 7,464 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/964646.md - Parcel 903141: 7,335 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903141.md - Parcel 932862: 7,172 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/932862.md - Parcel 968535: 6,952 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/968535.md - Parcel 880202: 6,841 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/880202.md - Parcel 2689203: 6,785 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2689203.md - Parcel 1004575: 6,504 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1004575.md - Parcel 942952: 6,390 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/942952.md - Parcel 4775358: 6,386 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4775358.md - Parcel 4096822: 6,341 m² (0.63 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4096822.md - Parcel 941201: 6,245 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/941201.md - Parcel 933930: 4,974 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/933930.md - Parcel 3669975: 4,556 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3669975.md - Parcel 923813: 4,097 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/923813.md - Parcel 5469404: 3,085 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5469404.md - Parcel 2419488: 2,714 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2419488.md - Parcel 878730: 2,384 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/878730.md - Parcel 957749: 2,267 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/957749.md - Parcel 871304: 2,079 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/871304.md - Parcel 967503: 1,825 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/967503.md - Parcel 1010330: 1,811 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1010330.md - Parcel 918588: 1,729 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/918588.md - Parcel 907887: 1,389 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/907887.md - Parcel 4789744: 1,071 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4789744.md - Parcel 917033: 361 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/917033.md - Parcel 923157: 358 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/923157.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 10 applications, newest first. - 20 Jan 2026, Mayo County Council 2660059: Conditional. Permission. Permission for Alterations to previously approved plans granted under planning reference P25/60111. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660059/0 - 17 Nov 2025, Mayo County Council 2560819: Conditional. Retention. The development consists of the retention of the extension to existing CVRT centre together with all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560819/0 - 3 Mar 2025, Mayo County Council 2560111: Conditional. Permission. Permission to Construct Extension to Existing Ancillary Outbuilding for Domestic Use and Associated Siteworks & Services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560111/0 - 17 Dec 2024, Mayo County Council 2460772: N/a. Permission. Permission to Construct Extension at Existing Cottage and Associated Siteworks & Services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460772/0 - 7 Oct 2024, Mayo County Council 2460628: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Construction of a Dwelling House & Demolition of existing with new wastewater treatment system at Ross West, Castlebar, Co Mayo. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460628/0 - 20 Feb 2023, Mayo County Council 2382: N/a. Permission. Section 5 Declaration: Outdoor toilets, sanitary area ancillary to school, together with operating school hours with after school service. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2382/0 - 24 Nov 2020, Mayo County Council 20912: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20912/0 - 5 Jul 2019, Mayo County Council 19512: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/19512/0 - 14 Sept 2018, Mayo County Council 18708: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18708/0 - 27 Feb 2017, Mayo County Council 17119: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO EXISTING TEST CENTRE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/17119/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Natural Heritage Area: Cunnagher More Bog NHA, site code 002420, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/002420 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ross West. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ross West. ## 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 West, 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 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 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-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ross-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ross-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Crumlin: https://everytownland.com/mayo/crumlin-151265.md - Garraghill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/garraghill.md - Ross East: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ross-east.md - Sallagher: https://everytownland.com/mayo/sallagher.md - Sranalee: https://everytownland.com/mayo/sranalee.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ross-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/ross-west