Rathmeel

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmeel, from 1,060 m² to 120,843 m² (12.08 ha, 29.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.

• P1Agriculture
  Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 37 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Strategic Enterprise & Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 3 Nov 2025Conditional

  Demolition of existing dwelling with garage and construction of new dwelling and garage with connection to existing services including all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560778

• 11 Mar 2024Refused

  Demolition of existing derelict dwelling house and the construction of a new dwelling house, on-site effluent pump system, connection to public utilities together with ancillary site development works

  Outline permission · Mayo County Council, 2460116

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ACCESS JUNCTION ONTO THE N59 INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF ROAD MARKINGS TO FACILITATE A RIGHT TURN GHOST ISLAND JUNCTION, AN INTERNAL ACCESS ROAD OF APPROX. 340M LENGTH OF 7.0M WIDE CARRIAGEWAY, INTERNAL JUNCTIONS, VERGES, FOOTPATHS, SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS WITHIN THE 8.66 HECTARE SITE. THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NIS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 211376

• 1 Sept 2021Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER p19/689 TOGETHER WITH CONNECTION TO SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21933

• 22 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF 3 NO. FLAGPOLES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20318

• 3 Sept 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARGE TOGETHER WITH CONNECTION TO SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19689

• 31 Oct 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCT NEW DETACHED DWELLINGHOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH CONNECTION TO SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18856

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: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SAC 000458
• Special Protection Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SPA 004036
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary 000458

Recorded monuments

• MA030-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on rise in undulating pasture. An area of poorly drained ground lies to NE-E. A farmyard lies immediately to NW. This rath is enclosed by three banks with intervening fosses. It consists of a slightly raised circular area (37.6m E-W; 39.6m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2.9m), and enclosed by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4m) with external bank (Wth 6.9m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.6m). Remnants of the second fosse (Wth 2.4m) with its outer bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.2m) survive in an arc at SW−NW, but have been levelled elsewhere. A poorly defined gap (Wth 1.4m) in the innermost bank at the E may indicate the site of the original entrance. The interior is level. Two areas of surface collapse in the W half of the interior mark the location a souterrain (MA030-041001-) of dry-stone construction. A slight, narrow stony rise (Wth 0.6-0.8m) traverses the W half of the interior on a roughly N-S axis, probably the remains of a field fence. An accumulation of field clearance stones tops the innermost bank. At SE−SW the second bank is incorporated into a later field fence, and has been faced with stone in parts. The banks are ringed with hawthorn and brambles. At NW-N a silage pit truncates the outer banks and fosse. There is another multivallate rath (MA030-043----) 200m to N, and a standing stone (MA030-044----) c. 350m to ESE, both visible from this rath. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 April 2018

• MA030-041001 Souterrain
  Description

  Located in the W half a rath (MA030-041----), close to the inner face of the bank. The souterrain is indicated by two areas of surface collapse, the most northerly of which appears as a shallow depression (diam. c. 1.4m). Located 5m SSW of this depression, the collapse of roofing lintels has revealed a subterranean chamber (3.2m E-W; 3.8m N-S; H c. 2m) of dry-stone construction and oval in plan. The walls of medium-large, irregular-shaped stones and boulders are slightly corbelled to support large stone lintels, some of which remain in situ at the N end. There is a possible air vent, now filled with soil, in the wall at the SW. Heaps of collapsed stone and earth obscure the S end of the chamber. At the N end, two or possibly three rough steps lead down to a narrow passage (Wth 0.6m; H 0.95m), which extends for 3.5m to the NNE, opening into the S end of a second oval chamber (3m E-W; c. 1.8m N-S; H 1.8m) of similar construction. The floor of this chamber is strewn with stones. An opening (Wth 0.78m; H c. 0.5m) in the E wall reveals a narrow passage or shaft sloping steeply upwards, and largely filled with soil; this may have been the original entrance passage. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 April 2018

• MA030-042 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, located on elevated ground on N side of a narrow stream valley. A field drain lies immediately to W, bordering the garden of a modern two-storey house. To SE there is a spring well in a concrete housing. This monument is shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure or earthwork, and on the 1930 edition as a roughly circular hachured feature (diam. c. 10m). It consists of a low, D-shaped earthen platform (c.7m E-W; 4.5m N-S; H 0.2-0.3m) defined on the curving N side by a slightly raised rim (Wth c. 0.5-0.7m), incorporating a few stones, and truncated on the straight side to S by modern disturbance. Its original form and function is unclear. According to local information, an area of disturbed ground immediately to SE-S was used in the 1940’s as a pond for soaking flax, but has since been partly infilled. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 April 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathmeel, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_416 (ZIP).

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

Name

Rathmeel · An Ráth Mhaol

Area

506,107 m² (50.61 ha, 125.06 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoremoy, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Ardnaree North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

954 people lived in 336 households in the Ardnaree North electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Farrangarode, Quignalegan, Quignamanger, Quignashee, Rathdonnell

Placenames

Rathmeel 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.