Rathmurphy
Townland in the civil parish of Castleconor, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish Ráth Uí Mhurchú
- Area
- 43.4 ha
- 107 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 2,876 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmurphy, from 67 m² to 83,889 m² (8.39 ha, 20.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rathmurphy 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Nov 2024Conditional
retention of original dwelling house built under Planning Permission ref. no. PL9968, and to retain entrance gate as constructed previously granted under Planning Permission PL07/273, retain balcony & minor alterations on western elevation (change of windows to patio doors (all other relevant works carried out on this site are covered by the following Planning Permissions PL06/353, & PL07/794)
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2443
24 Oct 2024N/a
The development will consist of retention of original dwelling house built under Planning Permission Ref. No. PL9968, and to retain entrance gate as constructed previously granted under Planning Permission PL.07/273, retain balcony & minor alterations on western elevation (change of window to patio doors) (all other relevant works carried out on this site are covered under the following- Planning Permission PL06/353 & PL07/794) at above address.
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2442
6 Nov 2017Conditional
for development consisting of the retention of existing dwelling house, boundary walls, access & to upgrade existing septic tank with soak pit system previously granted under PL 77/6906. Including retention of all other associated works and services
Retention · Sligo County Council, 17422
25 Jan 2017Conditional
construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage, demolition of existing shed, connection to proposed treatment unit and to carry out ancillary site works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 11303
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rathmurphy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathmurphy.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_414 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rathmurphy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Rathmurphy · Ráth Uí Mhurchú
- Area
- 433,723 m² (43.37 ha, 107.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleconor, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Castleconor West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleconor West electoral division: 1,095 people in 379 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castleconor (Co. Mayo), Killanly, Newtown
- Placenames
- Rathmurphy 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.