Roy
Roy is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Ráith.
- Area
- 976.3 ha
- 2,413 acres
- Land parcels
- 366
- registered freehold, median 9,111 m² (0.91 ha, 2.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
366 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roy, from 2 m² to 310,827 m² (31.08 ha, 76.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 52 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 Roy 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
11 May 2026Conditional
construct a new slatted shed, incorporating an existing shed with a new roof on farmland and all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 26102
24 Apr 2025N/a
Section 5 Declaration: Construct extension to rear of the property where the combined area is less than 40m2
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25149
10 Jul 2024Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, garage and proprietary effluent treatment unit and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24267
4 Jun 2024Conditional
The development shall consist of planning permission for the erection of an extension to the existing dwelling house located upon the right rear elevation (south western aspect) and to include all other ancillary site services and development works associated with this permission as per the application documentation.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460339
4 Jun 2024Conditional
The development shall consist of planning retention permission for an existing dwelling house, standalone granny flat located to the rear of the existing dwelling house, all upon revised planning boundaries from that previously approved under P05/1646 and to include all other ancillary site services and development works associated with this permission as per the application documentation
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2460340
2 Aug 2023Conditional
Proposed Extension and Alterations to existing Dwelling at Roy, Doohoma, Ballina, Co. Mayo. F26 K2C1
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360310
23 Mar 2023Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and associated site works, at the above address. A Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S) will be submitted with this planning application.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360075
12 Apr 2022Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22289
8 Jun 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18431
28 Apr 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW THREE-BAY SLATTED SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ITS ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17312
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex SAC 000470
- Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex 000470
Recorded monuments
- MA034-008 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roy.
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 Roy, about 1 in 20 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 Roy.
- 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
- Roy, Doohoma5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Roy · An Ráith
- Area
- 9,763,184 m² (976.32 ha, 2,412.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- Rathhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 695 people lived in 285 households in the Rathhill electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Doohooma, Dooyork, Tullaghanbaun, Tullaghanduff
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Roy 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.