Aghoos

136 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghoos, from 22 m² to 125,317 m² (12.53 ha, 30.97 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 Aghoos 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.

• 18 Dec 2025Conditional

  planning permission for the following development: 1. The construction of a new dwelling house 2. The construction of a domestic garage 3. The installation of a Tricel Novo wastewater treatment system and a soil polishing filter/percolation area. 4. All associated site development works including new site entrance and services.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660008

• 15 Jul 2020Conditional

  construction of a shed to house sheep and ancillary works (i.e. ancillary concrete yard, enclosures etc. all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard area utilising existing farm entrance

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20475

• 30 Jun 2017Conditional

  REPLACE EXISTING DOMESTIC SEPTIC TANK AND SOAKPIT WITH A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, POLISHING FILTER AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS AT EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17516

• 30 Jun 2017Conditional

  REPLACE EXISTING DOMESTIC SEPTIC TANK AND SOAKPIT WITH A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, POLISHING FILTER AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT AND WORKS AT EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17519

• 23 Jun 2017Conditional

  REPLACE EXISTING DOMESTIC SEPTIC TANK AND SOAKPIT WITH A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, POLISHING FILTER AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT AND WORKS AT EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17483

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: Glenamoy Bog Complex SAC 000500
• Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenamoy Bog Complex 000500

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghoos.

Architectural heritage

• Aghoos Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1832, extant 1838, originally with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (south-west) front. In use, 1943. Closed, 1961. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now missing, chevron- or saw tooth-detailed rendered coping to gable to entrance (south-west) front on obelisk-pinnacled kneelers with lichen-covered cut-granite[?] Celtic Cross finial to apex, and no rainwater goods surviving on squared limestone eaves. Coursed rubble limestone walls retaining fragments of fine roughcast surface finish. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone sills[?], and concealed squared limestone voussoirs framing part concrete block infill. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (south-west) front. Pointed-arch window opening to gable with cut-limestone sill[?], and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins including overgrown stepped dais to sanctuary (north-east) with stepped "predella". Set in unkempt grounds.

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 Aghoos, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Aghoos · Na hEachú

Area

3,644,576 m² (364.46 ha, 900.59 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Knocknalower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

768 people lived in 296 households in the Knocknalower electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellagelly South, Bellanaboy, Kilcommon or Pollatomish

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Aghoos 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.