Rathoma
Rathoma is a townland in the civil parish of Ballysakeery, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Ráth Thóma.
Parcel 5671371
- Area
- 5,845 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 297 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Rathoma
Planning applications on this parcel
14 Feb 2019Conditional
SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH UPSTAIRS ACCOMMODATION, SEPARATE GARAGE, BOUNDARY FENCING, SEPTIC SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 1987
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 254.6 ha
- 629 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 30,047 m² (3 ha, 7.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathoma, from 221 m² to 178,466 m² (17.85 ha, 44.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Rathoma 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
31 Aug 2026N/a
The installation of a linear array of 80 no. (2no. rows x 30no. & 2no. rows x 10no. panels) x 625w ground mounted bifacial solar photovoltaic (PV) panels with existing shed for battery storage area. Including all other ancillary site work and services (35m trench for cabling & electric infrastructure)
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660693
21 Jul 2026Conditional
construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage with effluent treatment system and for all associated site works at Rathoma, Killala, Co Mayo
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660582
25 Jun 2024Refused
Planning permission to install a 40ft metal shipping container underground with 3.2m high earth mounding to all sides for the safe and secure storage of pyrotechnics (Class 1 hazardous goods) along with 4.0m² timber shed for packing and unpacking of pyrotechnics, erect green mesh security fencing, erect stock proof fencing to site perimeter and to carry out all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460390
25 Oct 2023Refused
Planning permission to install a 40ft metal shipping container underground with 3.2m high earth mounding to all sides for the safe and secure storage of pyrotechnics (Class 1 hazardous goods) along with 4.0m² timber shed for packing and unpacking of pyrotechnics, erect green mesh security fencing, erect stock proof fencing to site perimeter and to carry out all associated ancillary site works at Rathoma, Killala, Co. Mayo
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360447
16 Sept 2021Conditional
DECOMMISSION AND REPLACE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND SOAK PIT WITH NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA ADN TO CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21984
5 Feb 2021Conditional
DEMOLISH AND REBUILD EXTENSION TO SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND CARRY OUT ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2180
16 Apr 2020Conditional
Construct a 4 bay double slatted shed with a creep area and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20266
14 Feb 2019Conditional
SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH UPSTAIRS ACCOMMODATION, SEPARATE GARAGE, BOUNDARY FENCING, SEPTIC SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 1987
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 Rathoma.
Recorded monuments
- MA021-053 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.
- MA021-054 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 Rathoma.
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 Rathoma, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathoma.
- 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
No address of the register names Rathoma with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Rathoma · Ráth Thóma
- Area
- 2,545,996 m² (254.6 ha, 629.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballysakeery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Rathoma, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 248 people lived in 86 households in the Rathoma electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygowan, Ballymackeehola, Barranarran Upper, Cloonalough, Ellaghs, Fahy, Knockaunderry, Lecarrowanteean, Raheens
- Placenames
- Rathoma 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.