Rosdooaun

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosdooaun, from 16 m² to 80,816 m² (8.08 ha, 19.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rosdooaun 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.

• 9 Jun 2025Conditional

  construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system with associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25234

• 9 Feb 2023Conditional

  demolish an existing agricultural barn and to construct a dwelling house and a proprietary effluent treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2357

• 26 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH A PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17597

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Clew Bay Complex SAC 001482
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482

Recorded monuments

• MA076-008 Enclosure
  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

• Rosdooaun National School, school, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or five-bay single-storey national school, extant 1897; opened 1898[?] on a symmetrical plan. In use, 1944. Closed, 1969. Now in private residential use. Pitched slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, coping to gables with chimney stacks to apexes having chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters[?] retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber or uPVC panelled door. Paired square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt landscaped grounds.

• Rosdooaun Bridge, bridge, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838. Part repointed snecked limestone walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar rounded cutwaters to piers having domed capping with hammered limestone rounded coping to parapets. Series of three elliptical arches with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Rossow River with unkempt banks to river.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Rosdooaun · Ros Duáin

Area

950,842 m² (95.08 ha, 234.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeena, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Derryloughan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derryloughan electoral division: 771 people in 280 households; 84% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cushalogurt, Gortawarla, Knocknaboley, Roslaher, Rossow

Placenames

Rosdooaun 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.