Ahena

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ahena, from 859 m² to 279,292 m² (27.93 ha, 69.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ahena 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.

• 20 Mar 2025Conditional

  construction of a slatted house, silage slab, access road and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25110

• 12 Feb 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of a change of house design and all associated site development works. Previous Planning Reference No.: 21/655

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460047

• 17 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK/PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21655

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  Construct dwelling house with waste water treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21289

• 25 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW SLATTED SHED FACILITIES WITH CREEP PEN AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17292

• 20 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH A PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17282

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• MA101-045001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA101-045002 Earthwork
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA101-101 Burial ground
  Description

  Two burials were discovered in the course of quarrying activites in March 1998. A rescue excavation was undertaken from 6th - 8th April. Murphy (1998, 4) records the following: ‘The remains of nine individuals were recovered from this site, only four of which were clearly visible. Two of these had been removed at an earlier stage and two during the present rescue excavation. The orientation of the four burials which were in situ would suggest that they were Christian. The number of burials would suggest that they formed part of a familial cemetery. There were no artefacts recovered that might give a clue to the date of the burials. There is no evidence for a church ever having been associated with this site, but one of the fields to the east of the burials was known as the Coilean field. This may be a corruption of Cilleen which might suggest that there was some folk memory of a burial ground in this area. It is quite possible that the enclosure [MA101-102----] located 148m due south of the burials may also be associated with these burials. . . Further topsoil stripping to the east-west and south of the burials was carried out under archaeological supervision. A small piece of disarticulated human bone was recovered immediately south of the burials, however an area of up to 12m south of the burials was stripped of topsoil and there was no evidence for further human remains. The sod and topsoil had an approximate depth of 0.25m and it overlay the natural gravel.’ Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 24 February 2014

• MA101-102 Enclosure
  Description

  Remains of an enclosure surives as a raised platform-like area (diam. c. 30m) and visible on an aerial photograph (SMR file). (Murphy 1998) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 24 February 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Ahena with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Ahena · Áth Éanna

Area

1,032,787 m² (103.28 ha, 255.21 acres)

Civil parish

Tagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Cloghermore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloghermore electoral division: 165 people in 64 households; 81% of households own their home; 13% of homes were built since 2001; 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmore, Cloonagh, Devlin, Grallagh, Knockagraffy, Maltpool, Polldrian

Placenames

Ahena 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.