Sheeroe
Townland in the civil parish of Aghagower, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo; in Irish An tSí Rua
- Area
- 55.9 ha
- 138 acres
- Land parcels
- 86
- registered freehold, median 2,872 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheeroe, from 27 m² to 89,553 m² (8.96 ha, 22.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Sheeroe 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
14 Nov 2025Conditional
demolish an existing entrance porch and to construct a new entrance porch
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25468
30 Nov 2024Refused
Change the use of the existing 2-storey retail warehouse use to 2-storey gymnasium use, including removal of interior partitions, providing additional sanitary accommodation and connecting into existing services.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460735
27 Feb 2023N/a
construct a private dwelling house and connection to public services including all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2399
1 Sept 2022Conditional
FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE, AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS, SITEWORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22746
22 Feb 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22127
23 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21796
20 Apr 2021Conditional
Construct an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house and to construct a shed
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21366
15 Mar 2021Refused
CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21222
12 Aug 2019Conditional
RETAIN AND COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND GENERAL SITE WORKS AT EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Mayo County Council, 19620
25 Apr 2019Conditional
Construct dwelling house, domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system together with associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19300
15 Apr 2019Conditional
retain domestic garage/workshop together with associated site services
Retention · Mayo County Council, 19263
8 Feb 2019Conditional
RETENTION OF EXISTING BUILDING AND FOR PERMISSION TO RENOVATE EXTERNALLY AND INTERNALLY, TO CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1979
16 Mar 2018Conditional
RETENTION OF SINGLE STOREY SUNROOM TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING
Retention · Mayo County Council, 18178
9 Mar 2018Conditional
RETENTION OF EXISTING BUILDING AND FOR PERMISSION TO RENOVATE EXTERNALLY AND INTERNALLY AND FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 18156
21 Dec 2017N/a
RETENTION OF THE EXISTING BUILDING AND FOR PERMISSION TO RENOVATE EXTERNALLY AND INTERNALLY AND FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 171026
27 Mar 2017N/a
RETAIN 6 NO. APARTMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 17219
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Sheeroe.
Recorded monuments
- MA088-016 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 Sheeroe.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_243 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Sheeroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Sheeroe · An tSí Rua
- Area
- 559,428 m² (55.94 ha, 138.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghagower, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Westport Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Westport Rural electoral division: 1,739 people in 619 households; 88% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Buckwaria, Carrowbeg, Derrygorman, Drummindoo, Knockranny
- Placenames
- Sheeroe 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.