Muckrussaun

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muckrussaun, from 85 m² to 120,121 m² (12.01 ha, 29.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Muckrussaun 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.

• 1 Aug 2024Conditional

  The development shall consist of planning permission for the erection of a dwelling house, installation of a proprietary treatment unit including a percolation/tertiary area and to include all other ancillary site services and development works associated with this permission.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460481

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 the townland of Muckrussaun.

Recorded monuments

• MA120-011 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. Appears as circular soil mark on aerial photograph (GSI), no visible surface trace. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 475. Date of upload: 25 February 2014

• MA120-012 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. Aerial photograph (GSI), shows cropmark of circular area (est. max. diam. c. 43m) defined by broad fosse. No visible surface traces. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 476. Date of upload: 25 February 2014

• MA121-001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In rough grazing atop low rise, 40m N of barrow (MA121-188----). Circular mound (diam. 7.8m E-W), enclosed by fosse (D 0.5m), with external earthen bank (H 0.9m). Overlain by two stone fences and heavily overgrown on NE. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 48. Date of upload: 12 December 2014

• MA121-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop ridge. Enclosing element consists of arc of earthen bank (L 22.8m; H 1.7m), N to E. Stone field fence bisects the site E to W. Shown as circular area, enclosed by earthen bank in OS map (1838). Possibly a ringfort. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 477. Date of upload: 22 December 2014

• MA121-188 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In rough grazing, 40m S of barrow (MA121-001----). Circular mound (diam. 5.3m N-S), enclosed by fosse (D 0.4m), with low external bank (H 0.2m). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 49. Date of upload: 21 January 2015

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Muckrussaun.

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 Muckrussaun, about 1 in 5 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 Muckrussaun.

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 Muckrussaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Muckrussaun · Mucrosán

Area

1,015,561 m² (101.56 ha, 250.95 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinchalla, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Neale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

879 people lived in 298 households in the Neale electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Caherduff, Creevagh Middle, Creevagh North, Lecarrowkilleen

Placenames

Muckrussaun 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.