Esker North

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Esker North, from 1,391 m² to 103,707 m² (10.37 ha, 25.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Esker North 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 Esker North 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Esker North.

Recorded monuments

• MA111-030001 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, located on a low narrow elongated rise or esker This rath is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure; by the time of the 1930 edition only the W half of the enclosure is shown, depicted as an arc of hachuring (diam. c. 25m NE−SW), enclosed within a narrow wooded space. On both map editions it is named ‘Maguires Fort’. Much of the esker has been quarried away and as a result the rath appears to have been largely destroyed. It is possible that portions of the rath remain intact between the areas of quarrying but this is uncertain. A short length of curving bank (Wth 2.5m; H 0.5m) appears to be all that remains of the enclosing bank; it is located at the N end of the esker, and probably equates with a portion of the NW arc of the rath. The remainder of the rath cannot be traced. An area on the SW side of the esker has been dug away, concreted over and is now used for the storage of silage bales, and a trackway leads N from this to the road that borders the NE side of the field, extending through what would have been the W half of the rath. Beech, ash, sycamore and hawthorn trees, as well as brambles, grow on the surviving remnants of the esker. There is no trace of the children’s burial ground (MA030002-) which was located at the rath. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2022

• MA111-030002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In a rath (MA111-030001-). Indicated as ‘Burial Gd.’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and as ‘Children’s Burial Ground’ on the 1930 edition. Quarrying has largely destroyed the rath, and no trace of the burial ground is evident. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2022

• MA111-031 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Located in level, lowlying, poorly-drained pasture. Views are restricted by tree-lined field boundaries. This enclosure is named ‘Lisnapreaghan’ on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (25.5m NW–SE; 25.8 NE–SW), not noticeably raised, enclosed by two shallow, flat-bottomed fosses (Wth 1.4-1.7m; D 0.3-0.45m) with an broad, flat-topped, intervening bank (Wth 5.3m, top 3.1-3.9m; int. H 0.85-1m; ext. H 0.95-1.1m). The bank appears uniform in width and height around its circuit, and both the inner and outer faces are cut quite vertically; the flat top of the bank appears almost like a raised encircling path. There is a gap (Wth 1.1m) at SSE, partly blocked at its outer edge by upcast from a later field ditch which merges with the external fosse at this point. The two fosses are similar in size and form, but the external fosse merges with field ditches bordering field banks which radiate at NW, N and S–SSE from the enclosure. The interior is level, rather soft and damp underfoot and is covered with grass and rushes. The bank is ringed with hawthorn, beech, sycamore, ash and hazel, which grow on the slopes of the bank but not on the top. This is an unusual enclosure. Except in size, it does not conform to the morphology of ringforts in this area, which mostly have an interior raised above surrounding field level. The internal fosse suggests a ritual function, and it may a ringbarrow or henge-type monument. However, the vertical sides of the bank and the merging of field ditches with the external fosse point to relatively recent modification, probably for drainage purposes or possibly adaptation as a tree-ring. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Esker North, 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 Esker North.

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

Name

Esker North · An Eiscir Thuaidh

Area

425,009 m² (42.5 ha, 105.02 acres)

Civil parish

Crossboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Crossboyne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

600 people lived in 215 households in the Crossboyne electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowlena, Castlemagarretpark New, Drummin East, Esker East, Esker South, Kilscohagh

Placenames

Esker North 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.