# Aghalahard, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Cong, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Achadh Leathard.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 562,544 m² (56.25 ha, 139.01 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,691 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Cong, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/cong.md
- Barony: Kilmaine
- Electoral division: Cong, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 994 people lived in 325 households in the Cong electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34835
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150018
- Centre: latitude 53.556914, longitude -9.301719 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghalahard, from 297 m² to 126,244 m² (12.62 ha, 31.2 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 892715: 126,244 m² (12.62 ha, 31.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/892715.md
- Parcel 892713: 125,963 m² (12.6 ha, 31.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/892713.md
- Parcel 960655: 112,721 m² (11.27 ha, 27.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/960655.md
- Parcel 892712: 89,341 m² (8.93 ha, 22.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/892712.md
- Parcel 960658: 74,749 m² (7.47 ha, 18.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/960658.md
- Parcel 892714: 12,273 m² (1.23 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/892714.md
- Parcel 960656: 8,691 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/960656.md
- Parcel 2694681: 4,393 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2694681.md
- Parcel 4076405: 3,111 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4076405.md
- Parcel 4753600: 1,704 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4753600.md
- Parcel 960654: 1,527 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/960654.md
- Parcel 2694618: 796 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2694618.md
- Parcel 960657: 297 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/960657.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Aghalahard in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 3 Jul 2024, Mayo County Council 2460411: Conditional. Permission. Construction of an extension to the northwest side of the existing dwelling house granted under P00/1502. Including all other ancillary site work and services.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460411/0
- 18 Feb 2021, Mayo County Council 21118: Refused. Permission. CONVERT AND EXTEND AN EXISTING GARAGE INTO A 4 BEDROOM, TWO STOREY HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED LANDSCAPING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/21118/0
- 22 Jan 2018, Mayo County Council 1829: Conditional. Retention. RETENTION OF EXISTING GARAGE TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE SITE AND THE CLOSING UP OF EXISTING ACCESS TO THE SOUTHEAST INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/1829/0
- 9 Jun 2017, Mayo County Council 17447: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/17447/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA120-022: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-022----. In rough pasture. Circular area (diam. 35m E-W), enclosed by substantial stone wall (Wth 1.7m; H 1.7m), largely overgrown. Small, blocked up, lintelled gap in the N. Gap (Wth 3m) in NE may have been entrance. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 238. Date of upload: 15 October 2014
- MA120-023: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-023----. In level pasture. Shown on aerial photograph (GSI M 181 -2; Roll 197, pr. 30) as circular enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 39m). Levelled; no visible surface traces. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 395. Date of upload: 15 October 2014
- MA120-024: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-024----. This tower house is a National Monument in State care (no. 243). Fragmentary remains of rectangular tower (12.8m NW-SE; 9.9m NE-SW), built with ashlar blocks and standing in SW corner of polygonal shaped bawn (MA120-024001-) with square turrets. NW wall stands to three storeys with short returns of NE and SW walls. Only faint outline of SE wall, which may have contained the doorway, survives. Ground floor has broad embrasures with narrow round openings on each of the surviving walls. E corner has remnants of spiral stairs; alcove on NE wall. Ist-floor has window embrasures on NE and NW walls; angle loop in W. Splayed window embrasure on NW wall of second storey, above which are traces of vaulted ceiling. At base of vault, in NE wall, is remains of secret chamber lighted by tiny window on NW wall. Higher up, on exterior of NW wall is perfectly preserved bartizan, and twin ogee-headed window. Upper level of NE wall contains garderobe which emerges at ground-level via two openings. Bawn (MA120-024001-) rebuilt in a number of places, contains three gun loops in an embrasure W of tower house. A later building (int. dims. 11.5m N-S; 5.9m E-W) (MA120-024002-) in SE of bawn has fireplaces in N and S gables. Owned by Mac Donnells in 1574 and held by them until last century, when purchased by Sir Benjamin Guinness (Harbison 1970,168). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 703. Date of upload: 15 October 2014
- MA120-024001: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-024001-. An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District records a ‘polygonal shaped bawn with square turrets’ which encloses a tower house (MA120-024----) in the SW corner and a later building (MA120-024002-) in the SE corner. The bawn ‘rebuilt in a number of places, contains three gun loops in an embrasure W of tower house.’ (Lavelle 1994, 106, no. 703). National Monument no. 243 Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 October 2014
- MA120-024002: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-024002-. An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District records ‘a later building (int. dim. 11.5m N-S; 5.9m E-W)’ with fireplaces in the N and S gables, located in the SE of a bawn (MA120-024001-). (Lavelle 1994, 106, no. 703). A ruined tower house (MA120-024----) is located in the SW corner of the bawn. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 October 2014

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Aghalahard, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghalahard.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/aghalahard.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/aghalahard.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/aghalahard.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Aghalahard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Breandrim (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/breandrim.md
- Cregaree: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cregaree.md
- Dringeen Eighter: https://everytownland.com/mayo/dringeen-eighter.md
- Dringeen Middle: https://everytownland.com/mayo/dringeen-middle.md
- Drumsheel Lower: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumsheel-lower.md
- Drumsheel Upper: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumsheel-upper.md
- Gortnaclassagh (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/gortnaclassagh-62295.md
- Killimor: https://everytownland.com/mayo/killimor.md
- Knockalassa: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockalassa.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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