Agloragh
Townland in the civil parish of Annagh, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish An tÁth Glórach
- Area
- 111 ha
- 274 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 17,496 m² (1.75 ha, 4.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Agloragh, from 845 m² to 299,936 m² (29.99 ha, 74.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Agloragh 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
12 Jun 2026Conditional
Planning Permission to retain extensions and altered elevations of dwelling house all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660460
28 Apr 2022Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSION AND SHED TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22319
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Agloragh.
Recorded monuments
- MA103-011 Enclosure
Description
In improved pasture, on the fairly steep SSE-facing slope of a ridge. There is a broad expanse of bog 300m to E. A river located 300m to NE skirts around the bog. Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed in the RMP (1997) as a possible enclosure on the basis of a circular feature/cropmark (diam. c. 25m) visible in an aerial photograph (SMR file: GSI M 55 -6; Roll 207, pr. 103). There is no visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 October 2022
Architectural heritage
- Agloragh Bridge, bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Three-arch road bridge over river, built 1855; extant 1893. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked limestone walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers having pyramidal capping with lichen covered hammered limestone rounded coping to parapets. Series of three segmental arches with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Dalgan River with unkempt banks to river.
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 moderately low, 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_829 (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 Agloragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Agloragh · An tÁth Glórach
- Area
- 1,109,749 m² (110.97 ha, 274.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Annagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Ballyhaunis, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyhaunis electoral division: 3,531 people in 1,219 households; 53% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowhawny, Cloonbullig, Corraun, Cottage, Derreens, Drumbaun, Grallagh, Lisduff
- Placenames
- Agloragh 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.