Ahanroe
Townland in the civil parish of Breaghwy, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish An tÁthán Rua
- Area
- 13.6 ha
- 34 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 15,482 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ahanroe, from 402 m² to 45,613 m² (4.56 ha, 11.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ahanroe 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
29 Jul 2024Conditional
alter the appearance of the roof and add a porch to the front of the existing house
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24303
16 Dec 2023Conditional
Upgrade of the existing wastewater treatment system and to carry out all required ancillary works on site
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360541
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 Ahanroe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ahanroe.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ahanroe.
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 5 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ahanroe.
- 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 Ahanroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Ahanroe · An tÁthán Rua
- Area
- 136,312 m² (13.63 ha, 33.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Breaghwy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Breaghwy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Breaghwy electoral division: 1,964 people in 608 households; 87% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykill Lower, Barney, Cloonaghmore, Pollanaskan
- Placenames
- Ahanroe 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.