Rosmoney

159 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosmoney, from 3 m² to 29,897 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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 Rosmoney 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.

• 29 Apr 2026Conditional

  (1) To construct a hardstand/boat storage area, (2) To construct a floating pontoon with link to the shore and (3) To alter the Western side of the existing slipway so as to provide a vertical wall and increased slipway width, (4) To include rehabilitation works when vacation of the site is undertaken, together with all ancillary site works and services at Rosmoney, Westport, Co. Mayo. A Natura Impact Statement & MARA Consent has been lodged with the application.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660341

• 25 Mar 2026N/a

  (1) To construct a hardstand/boat storage area, (2) To construct a floating pontoon with link to the shore and (3) To alter the Western side of the existing slipway so as to provide a vertical wall and increased slipway width, (4) To include rehabilitation works when vacation of the site is undertaken, together with all ancillary site works and services at Rosmoney, Westport, Co. Mayo. A Natura Impact Statement has been lodged with the application.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660228

• 3 Mar 2026Conditional

  Alterations and extension to existing family dwelling house with associated site works and landscaping at Rosmoney, Westport, Co Mayo

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660170

• 16 Dec 2025N/a

  (1) To construct a hardstand/boat storage area, (2) To construct a floating pontoon with link to the shore and (3) To alter the Western side of the existing slipway so as to provide a vertical wall and increased slipway width, together with all ancillary site works and services at Mayo Sailing Club, Rosmoney, Westport, Co. Mayo. A Natura Impact Statement has been lodged with the application.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560938

• 25 Nov 2025Conditional

  Retention of vehicular access along the front boundary, together with all ancillary site services at Rosmoney, Westport, County Mayo.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560858

• 2 Apr 2024N/a

  retain and complete partially built existing dwelling house, construct new extension to existing dwelling house, construct detached domestic garage, install a proprietary treatment unit, together with all ancillary site works and services, previous planning ref P01/2672

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2486

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  Planning application for an Extension to the rear of existing House(3.2 metres high) and a new domestic Shed (3.9 metres high) to the side of the House, together with all ancillary works, siteworks and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360548

• 22 Feb 2022Conditional

  EXTEND AND RENOVATE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY COTTAGE (59M2) AND OUTBUILDINGS (59M2), INCLUDING DEMOLITION OF EXISTING REAR SINGLE STOREY ANNEX (12M2), AND REPLACEMENT WITH ONE AND TWO STOREY SIDE AND REAR EXTENSION (122M2), REPLACE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER, NEW ACCESS ARRANGEMENT, NEW WEST SIDE GROUND FLOOR WINDOW, 3 NO. ROOFLIGHTS TO FRONT ELEVATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES AND LANDSCAPING WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22125

• 23 Dec 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW HOUSE, GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, A NIS HAS BEEN PREPARED AS PART OF THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 211382

• 23 Dec 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW HOUSE, GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES TOGETHER WTIH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NIS HAS BEEN PREPARED

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 211383

• 10 Sept 2021Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, SERVICES AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21962

• 3 Sept 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW HOUSE, GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT HAS BEEN PREPARED

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21937

• 13 Oct 2020Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING CONSERVATORY GRANTED UNDER P01/1672 AND TO CONSTRUCT PROPOSED NEW LIVING ROOM EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20750

• 2 Apr 2020Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house, workshop and proprietary effluent treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20226

• 15 Jan 2020Conditional

  CONSRUCT A HARDSTAND/BOAT STORAGE AREA. TO CONSTRUCT A FLOATING PONTOON WITH LINK TO THE SHORE. TO ALTER THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE EXISTING SLIPWAY SO AS TO PROVIDE A VERTICAL WALL AND INCREASED SLIPWAY WIDTH

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 207

• 24 May 2019Conditional

  AMENDMENTS AND ALTERATIONS TO DEVELOPMENT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER P19/47

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19385

• 30 Jan 2019Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO AN EXISITNG DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 1947

• 10 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND TO EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO ACCOMMODATE GRANNY FLAT TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18243

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17428

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rosmoney.

Architectural heritage

• Rosmoney Coastguard Station, coastguard station, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached thirteenth-bay two-storey coastguard station, designed 1875-6; built 1875-6, on an L-shaped plan with two-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bay abutting single-bay three-stage "watch tower" (west) on a square plan originally single-bay two-stage; twenty-bay two-storey rear (north) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Vacated, 1916. Derelict, 1980. Restored, 1994; 2009, to accommodate proposed alternative use. Replacement pitched and hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan; replacement pyramidal slate roof ("watch tower"), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped chamfered capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gable with finial to apex, and plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters with plastic downpipes. Roughcast walls on lichen-spotted cut-granite chamfered cushion course on roughcast plinth with rendered block-and-start piers to corners. Camber- or segmental-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds framing replacement casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Paired camber- or segmental-headed window openings (end bay) with cut-granite sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds framing replacement casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (north) centred on paired square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site with coursed or snecked rock faced limestone battered boundary wall to perimeter having lichen-spotted rough hewn limestone coping.

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 Rosmoney, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Rosmoney, Westport5 sales

Name

Rosmoney · Ros Muine

Area

553,972 m² (55.4 ha, 136.89 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeena, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Kilmeena, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,616 people lived in 558 households in the Kilmeena electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Money, Rusheen

Placenames

Rosmoney 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.