# Ross, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killala, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Ros. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,293,296 m² (129.33 ha, 319.58 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,018 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 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/34536 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152828 - Centre: latitude 54.237936, longitude -9.199539 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ross, from 24 m² to 197,154 m² (19.72 ha, 48.72 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 891575: 197,154 m² (19.72 ha, 48.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/891575.md - Parcel 987085: 133,996 m² (13.4 ha, 33.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/987085.md - Parcel 2693535: 115,983 m² (11.6 ha, 28.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693535.md - Parcel 875818: 86,014 m² (8.6 ha, 21.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/875818.md - Parcel 937950: 69,048 m² (6.9 ha, 17.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937950.md - Parcel 1005072: 67,191 m² (6.72 ha, 16.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1005072.md - Parcel 906818: 66,218 m² (6.62 ha, 16.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/906818.md - Parcel 940958: 58,881 m² (5.89 ha, 14.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/940958.md - Parcel 899707: 56,235 m² (5.62 ha, 13.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/899707.md - Parcel 903939: 43,423 m² (4.34 ha, 10.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903939.md - Parcel 882380: 37,701 m² (3.77 ha, 9.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/882380.md - Parcel 977798: 35,506 m² (3.55 ha, 8.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977798.md - Parcel 955310: 32,421 m² (3.24 ha, 8.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955310.md - Parcel 923371: 29,007 m² (2.9 ha, 7.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/923371.md - Parcel 934036: 21,093 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/934036.md - Parcel 878951: 19,582 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/878951.md - Parcel 4710356: 16,876 m² (1.69 ha, 4.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4710356.md - Parcel 2693517: 15,467 m² (1.55 ha, 3.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693517.md - Parcel 2693538: 14,141 m² (1.41 ha, 3.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693538.md - Parcel 981236: 10,259 m² (1.03 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/981236.md - Parcel 2693539: 10,123 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693539.md - Parcel 945151: 9,965 m² (1 ha, 2.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/945151.md - Parcel 888434: 9,683 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/888434.md - Parcel 4877433: 8,950 m² (0.89 ha, 2.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4877433.md - Parcel 4833000: 8,763 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4833000.md - Parcel 4833070: 7,965 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4833070.md - Parcel 1012362: 6,390 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012362.md - Parcel 1003866: 5,142 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003866.md - Parcel 873402: 4,895 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873402.md - Parcel 916093: 4,277 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/916093.md - Parcel 987776: 4,117 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/987776.md - Parcel 3626048: 4,057 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3626048.md - Parcel 987413: 3,979 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/987413.md - Parcel 5009862: 3,462 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5009862.md - Parcel 917310: 2,807 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917310.md - Parcel 4877416: 2,792 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4877416.md - Parcel 988656: 2,123 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/988656.md - Parcel 4730476: 2,083 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4730476.md - Parcel 1012272: 2,075 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012272.md - Parcel 877706: 2,062 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/877706.md - Parcel 999763: 1,735 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/999763.md - Parcel 955311: 1,723 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/955311.md - Parcel 1007443: 1,698 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1007443.md - Parcel 994310: 1,621 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/994310.md - Parcel 1008844: 1,579 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1008844.md - Parcel 973631: 1,517 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/973631.md - Parcel 896826: 1,488 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/896826.md - Parcel 4877420: 1,401 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4877420.md - Parcel 5379360: 983 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5379360.md - Parcel 1002122: 972 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1002122.md - Parcel 5379365: 909 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5379365.md - Parcel 895725: 909 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/895725.md - Parcel 1001089: 782 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1001089.md - Parcel 924840: 594 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/924840.md - Parcel 1012262: 490 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012262.md - Parcel 915759: 461 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/915759.md - Parcel 989125: 281 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/989125.md - Parcel 4747753: 280 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4747753.md - Parcel 1001621: 258 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1001621.md - Parcel 5009860: 126 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5009860.md - Parcel 967181: 124 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/967181.md - Parcel 915760: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/915760.md - Parcel 4877432: 33 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4877432.md - Parcel 5303628: 24 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5303628.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ross 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 2 Oct 2024, Mayo County Council 2460622: N/a. Permission. The proposed development will consist of 30 no. whip antennae 3m in height with a maximum diameter of 15mm, arranged in groups of three c. 15m apart together with, 1.2 wooden boundary fence, 2 no. cabinets, 1 no. 0.6m diameter dish mounted on a pole 3m in height, cable management, site access and all associated site development works on a total site area of 0.38707 ha. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and submitted in support of this application.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460622/0 - 21 Aug 2024, Mayo County Council 24350: Conditional. Retention. retention of the existing house as constructed on site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/24350/0 - 16 Jul 2024, Mayo County Council 24280: N/a. Retention. retention of existing house as constructed on this site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/24280/0 - 8 Jan 2024, Mayo County Council 243: Conditional. Permission. revised front entrance gates and set back from existing dwelling house onto public road, including all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/243/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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) - MA015-038001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA015-038001-. In pasture, located in an expanse of marram grass-covered, undulating sand dunes on the W side of Killala Bay. The location of this church is marked 'Site of Church' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, and the OS Letters (1838, p. 259 (135-6)) recorded the tradition that 'there was a church called Teampall Rinneáin at Ross, the site of which is now covered by sand. It was exactly opposite Bartra and was called by this name from its being situated at Rinnaun Point.' There is no visible trace of the church. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 November 2017 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) - Ross Coastguard Station, coastguard station, 1822–1838, Regional interest, registry number 31301504, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA®no=31301504. Detached five-bay single-storey coastguard station, extant 1838, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Closed, 1864. "Improved", pre-1896, producing present composition. Renovated, 2004, to accommodate continued alternative use. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables with roughcast chimney stacks to apexes centred on roughcast chimney stacks having rendered capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with rendered piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting iron gate. - Ross Coastguard Station, coastguard station, 1860–1865, Regional interest, registry number 31301505, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA®no=31301505. Detached seven-bay two-storey coastguard station, designed 1863-4; built 1864, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-stage higher advanced "watch tower" on a square plan. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, 1999, to accommodate alternative use. Replacement pitched and hipped slate roof; replacement pyramidal slate roof ("watch tower"), clay or terracotta ridge tiles, repointed yellow brick Running bond chimney stacks originally rendered having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, lichen-covered tooled cut-limestone coping to gable, and uPVC rainwater goods on tooled cut-limestone eaves. Repointed coursed rubble limestone walls originally rendered on tooled cut-limestone plinth with tooled hammered limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-limestone sills, and repointed yellow brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings originally in bipartite arrangement (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and repointed yellow brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing four-over-four timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on an elevated site with rock faced limestone ashlar battered boundary wall to perimeter having cut-limestone battlemented coping. ## 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, 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. - 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.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ross.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ross.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Ross, Killala: 7 sales, https://everytownland.com/mayo/ross-killala.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - 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. --- 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 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/ross