Rathfranpark

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathfranpark, from 373 m² to 218,351 m² (21.84 ha, 53.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Rathfranpark 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rathfranpark in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SPA 004036

Recorded monuments

• MA015-027001 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) This is a national monument (no. 633) in state care. Date of upload: 2 January 2012

• MA015-027002 Stone circle
  Description

  In pasture, located on a level elevated ground overlooking the estuary of the Palmerstown River to S-SE. A few meters to SE there is a gradual fall of ground, in gentle undulations, towards the river. Nephin and the Nephin Beg range are visible to S-SW. A wedge tomb (MA015-027001) is located c. 30-40m to SW. This was described in the 1838 OS Letters as a 'monument which does not appear to preserve its original form.' (O’Flanagan, 1927, 183-4 (98)). It was classed as a stone circle by de Valera & Ó Nualláin (1964, 32) and recorded as follows: 'Marked "Cromlech" on O.S. 6" 1837. This monument, which was a stone circle, has been totally removed since 1951 and the debris from it has been dumped on the east end of the nearby tomb [MA015-027001-]." Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 November 2018

• MA015-029 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Located on a low rise in rolling pasture with gradual fall of ground to SE towards the Palmerstown River. There is rath (MA015-030----) c. 150m to SSE. This possible ringfort is shown on the1838 and 1922 OS maps as a circular enclosure (diam. 25-30m). It was levelled during land reclamation works; there is no visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 November 2018

• MA015-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Straddles a low rise in rolling pasture, with a gradual fall of ground to SE towards the Palmerstown River. Roughly circular, raised area (28.8m NE-SW; 25.6m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.6m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.55m at SW, c. 2m at NE). The bank is generally rather low, with a broad internal slump. Stones protruding from on the internal face at the SW-W may be the remnants of a kerb or stone facing. A section (L12m) of the bank at the ESE-S has been levelled and survives only a low rise. The original entrance may have been in this area. The interior slopes down gently from centre to SE. There is a shallow, circular hollow (diam. 1.2m; D0.2m) in the N of the interior. A section (L 4m) of the external face of the bank at NNW has been cut away, and there is also evidence of erosion of the bank by farm stock. Field fences skirt the rath at SE, S and W. A possible rath (MA015-030----), now destroyed, is located c. 150m to NNW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 November 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathfranpark, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathfranpark · Páirc Ráth Bhrannaibh

Area

520,850 m² (52.09 ha, 128.7 acres)

Civil parish

Templemurry, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Lackan South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

460 people lived in 181 households in the Lackan South electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Breastagh, Carbad Beg, Carbad More, Cloonboy, Fallataggart, Rathfran

Placenames

Rathfranpark 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.