# Rossyvera, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Burrishoole, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Ros Uí Bhéara. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 316,810 m² (31.68 ha, 78.29 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,269 m² (2.13 ha, 5.26 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Burrishoole, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/burrishoole.md - Barony: Burrishoole - Electoral division: Newport West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 799 people lived in 290 households in the Newport West electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37493 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152840 - Centre: latitude 53.892119, longitude -9.628507 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossyvera, from 692 m² to 33,991 m² (3.4 ha, 8.4 acres); 2 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 873080: 33,991 m² (3.4 ha, 8.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873080.md - Parcel 891159: 30,527 m² (3.05 ha, 7.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/891159.md - Parcel 900169: 25,575 m² (2.56 ha, 6.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900169.md - Parcel 938287: 25,031 m² (2.5 ha, 6.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/938287.md - Parcel 991769: 24,384 m² (2.44 ha, 6.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/991769.md - Parcel 943817: 23,540 m² (2.35 ha, 5.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943817.md - Parcel 895061: 22,675 m² (2.27 ha, 5.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895061.md - Parcel 930141: 21,357 m² (2.14 ha, 5.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/930141.md - Parcel 890266: 21,181 m² (2.12 ha, 5.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890266.md - Parcel 886337: 21,092 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/886337.md - Parcel 904199: 18,818 m² (1.88 ha, 4.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904199.md - Parcel 950829: 10,379 m² (1.04 ha, 2.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/950829.md - Parcel 921401: 8,221 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/921401.md - Parcel 2714616: 1,067 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2714616.md - Parcel 2714615: 1,000 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2714615.md - Parcel 2492103: 692 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2492103.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rossyvera 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) No planning application touches the townland of Rossyvera in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Clew Bay Complex SAC, site code 001482, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001482 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex, site code 001482 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rossyvera. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Rossyvera House, country house, 1835–1845, Regional interest, registry number 31306710, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA®no=31306710. Detached five-bay (two-bay deep) three-storey country house, under construction 1838, on an F-shaped plan originally five-bay two-storey over basement on a cruciform plan centred on three-bay full-height projecting breakfront abutting two-bay full-height projecting end bay; three-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation centred on single-bay full-height breakfront on an engaged half-octagonal plan. Sold, 1853. Vacant, 1901. Occupied, 1911. Extended, 1939, producing present composition. Roof not visible behind parapet with paired rendered central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls with lead-covered coping to parapet. Elliptical-headed central open internal porch with cut-limestone surround centred on cut-limestone keystone. Square-headed door opening into country house with concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone lintels framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone voussoirs (ground floor) or hammered limestone lintels (first floor) framing two-over-two (ground floor) or four-over-four (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting cast-iron double gates. ## 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 Rossyvera, about 1 in 5 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 low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rossyvera. - 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/rossyvera.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rossyvera.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rossyvera.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rossyvera 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) - Gortfahy: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gortfahy.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/rossyvera - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/rossyvera