Rathnawooraun

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathnawooraun, from 323 m² to 166,632 m² (16.66 ha, 41.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathnawooraun 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.

• 5 Jul 2024Conditional

  retention of minor alterations to dwelling house (gable window on south west elevation, design of 4 windows to left of front door on front elevation, 3 no. velux roof lights on rear elevation and increase in height of roof from 5.8m to 6.2m) previously granted under permission P00/2381

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 24265

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SPA 004036

Recorded monuments

• MA014-095 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

• Palmerstown House, farm house, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, adapted 1845[?]; extant 1896, on an L-shaped plan with four-bay (south-west) or single-bay (north-east) two-storey side elevations. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on chamfered plinth with cut-limestone quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on triple keystones (ground floor) framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Rathnawooraun, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathnawooraun.

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.

No address of the register names Rathnawooraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Rathnawooraun · Ráth na bhFuarán

Area

493,079 m² (49.31 ha, 121.84 acres)

Civil parish

Templemurry, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Lackan South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

460 people lived in 181 households in the Lackan South electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carbad Beg, Castlereagh, Doonamona, Knockroe, Tooracappul

Placenames

Rathnawooraun 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.