Rathscanlan

234 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathscanlan, from 2 m² to 145,552 m² (14.56 ha, 35.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 129 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 39 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserver Tier II (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5Rural Transition (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Services/Facilities (Community facilities)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Jun 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of extension to existing dwelling, alterations to existing site boundaries together with ancillary site development works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460341

• 8 May 2023Conditional

  Permission for the addition of paired and alternating deflectors, excavation of pools and the addition of random boulders and spawing gravel in the Swinford River. An NIS has been submitted with this application

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23256

• 14 May 2021Refused

  HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF 6 DWELLING HOUSES WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21484

• 26 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF A PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PACKAGED TERTIARY POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18195

• 26 Mar 2018Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18201

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 Rathscanlan.

Recorded monuments

• MA062-047001 Church
  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.

• MA062-047002 Graveyard
  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.

• MA062-048 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on a rise, overlooked c. 60m to S by an E-W ridge, on the summit of which there is a rath (MA062-049----), and at the E end of which c. 160m to SE there is another rath (MA062-052001-). A church (MA-062-047001-) and graveyard (MA062-047002-) are located 100m to W, and an enclosure (MA062-051----) c. 190m to NE, and another enclosure (MA062-050----) c. 250m to NNE. This monument is depicted as a circular embankedenclosure on the 1837 OS 6-inch map, and as a penannular hachured enclosure (c. 35m NE-SW; c. 35m NW-SE), open to SW, on the 1919 edition. It has been levelled; a slight rise (diam. c. 35-40m) can be discerned at the location but otherwise there is no visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2020

• MA062-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the highest point on an E-W ridge, providing extensive views over the surrounding landscape. The fall of ground is pronounced to S, but there is a more gradual slope to N. Forestry is planted in the immediate surrounds to S, W and N; there is pasture to E. Broadly oval raised area or platform (28.4m NW-SE; c. 22m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. The rath spans the full width of the ridge top, so that the enclosing scarp at N and S merges with and is enhanced by the steep natural fall of ground. At E the scarp is slightly truncated by a roughly NW−SE field fence. Another field fence skirts the base of the scarp at NW−N, respecting its curve. The SE quadrant of the interior is noticeably higher than the rest of the interior, with a gently slope down from there to W, and a more pronounced slope down to N. There is a low area (Wth 2.7m) in the scarp at WNW which may mark an entrance. The interior is covered in rough grass, with clumps of gorse, heather, brambles and blackthorn; hawthorn and blackthorn ring the perimeter, especially dense at E where the field fence intersects the rath scarp. Another rath (MA062-052001-) is located c. 140m to E, at the E edge of the same ridge. There are a church (MA-062-047001-) and graveyard (MA062-047002-) c. 145m to NW, and an enclosure (MA062-048) c. 60m to N. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2020

• MA062-050 Enclosure
  Description

  In flat expanse pasture, located on a slight rise, straddling the break of slope of a steep E-facing slope, which falls into a N-S stream valley. This enclosure is not shown on the 1838 edition OS 6-inch map; it is indicated on the 1919 edition as a circular enclosure outlined by a solid line On the 25-inch plan trees are shown in the interior. It is recorded in an aerial photograph (OS 2 8787 -8; Roll 216, pr. 6; SMR file). It has been partly levelled but its outline can still be discerned as a slight circular rise (c. 23.7m E-W; 24.7m N-S) enclosed by a narrow, shallow fosse (W c. 1.2m; D 0.1m). The interior encompasses part of the E-facing slope so that there is there is an abrupt drop in ground level of c. 1.6m in the E third of the interior, and the enclosing fosse cuts across the steep E-facing ridge slope. Cultivation ridges on a N-S axis can be seen traversing the interior; these appear to post-date the enclosure. This is an unusual enclosure –in particular the narrow fosse and the steeply sloping interior. It may have been a tree-ring, as indicated on the 25-inch plan, and later used for cultivation. A similarly enclosure (MA062-051----) is located c. 100m to SSE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2020

• MA062-051 Enclosure
  Description

  In flat expanse pasture, straddling the break of slope of a steep E-facing slope, which falls into a small N-S stream valley. This enclosure is not shown on the 1837 edition OS 6-inch map; it is indicated on the 1919 edition map as a circular enclosure outlined by a solid line. On the 25-inch plan trees are shown in the interior. It is visible as a circular enclosure in an aerial photograph (OS 2 8787 -8; Roll 216, pr. 7; SMR file). It has been levelled but the circular outline (c. 29m E-W; 28.5m N-S) can still be discerned as a cropmark. The cropmark is visible as a band (Wth 1.3m) of differential grass growth, indicting the circuit of the original enclosing element, probably a ditch. The W two thirds of the interior enclosed level ground but the E third encompassed a steep E-facing slope with a drop in height of c. 2.5m. A similarly enclosure (MA062-050) is located c. 100m to NNW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2020

• MA062-052001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located at the break of slope on top of the E end of an E-W ridge. The ground falls away steeply at E, S and N but to W the spine of the ridge rises gradually for c. 140m to its summit where another rath (MA062-049----) is sited. There are good views, especially to E along a N-S stream valley. The rath consists of an oval area (22m E-W; 30m N-S) defined SSE−NNW by an earthen bank (W 2.9m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.6m, at W), reduced elsewhere to a scarp (1.3m at S, 1.7m at N). At E the scarp is dilapidated and poorly defined, and part of the ridge slope beneath it has been dug away. Outside the bank/scarp the ephemeral outline of an infilled fosse (Wth 2m) can be traced SE-W, but an external bank, which is shown in an arc S−W on the 1919 OS 6-inch map, has been removed. There is no clearly defined entrance but it may have been somewhere on the E-SE where the enclosing scarp is lowest. There is a souterrain (MA062-052002-) in the S half of the interior; it is marked as ‘Cave’ on the 1919 OS 6-inch map. Blackthorn, hawthorn, hazel and brambles densely ring the perimeter, and also encroach on the NE quadrant of the interior. Part way down the steep ridge slope at E a trackway, which is cut into the slope, skirts the rath, following a N-S contour on the slope. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2020

• MA062-052002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (MA062-052002-). Indicated as ‘Cave’ in the S half of the rath on the 1919 OS 6-inch map. There is a grass-covered surface depression (1.8m NE-SW; 1.6m NW-SE; D 0.4m) slightly SE of centre in the rath interior. At the SE end of the depression, a horizontal stone slab or lintel protrudes from above an opening (W0.55m, H 0.35m). The lintelled opening reveals a souterrain passage (Wth 0.75m; H c. 0.55m) of drystone construction, which slopes down and curves slightly to SE. Located 7m to SE, adjacent to the enclosing scarp of the rath, there is a second opening (Wth 0.35m; H 0.17m) covered by an in situ lintel. The remains suggests that the souterrain passage extends on a NW-SE axis through the SE quadrant of the rath. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2020

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch railway bridge over road, opened 1895; extant 1895. Closed, 1975. Now disused. Creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered abutment walls with rock faced cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having drag edged rock faced cut-limestone coping. Single segmental arch with red brick header bond voussoirs. Sited spanning road with overgrown embankments to road.

• Mausoleum, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay single-stage gable-fronted mausoleum, dated 1828, on a rectangular plan. Pitched (gable-fronted) roof with cross finial-topped concrete coping. Rendered walls with inscribed cut-limestone date stone ("1828"). Round-headed door opening approached by flight of three steps with tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing rendered infill. Set in graveyard on an elevated site.

• Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span railway bridge over road, opened 1895; extant 1895. Closed, 1975. Now disused. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between benchmark-inscribed tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered abutment walls with rock faced cut-limestone stringcourses supporting creeper- or ivy-covered piers having shallow pyramidal capping centred on riveted cast-iron girder span. Sited spanning road with unkempt grass embankments to road.

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 10 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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_610 (ZIP).

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

Name

Rathscanlan · Ráth Scanláin

Area

1,011,987 m² (101.2 ha, 250.07 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconduff, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Swineford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Swineford electoral division: 2,629 people in 1,062 households; 76% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowbeg, Cloonlara, Cuillaun, Esker, Kilbride, Lagcurragh, Swineford, Tawnamullagh

Placenames

Rathscanlan 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.