Aillemore
Aillemore is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgeever, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Aill Mhór.
- Area
- 289.1 ha
- 714 acres
- Land parcels
- 112
- registered freehold, median 3,723 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aillemore, from 17 m² to 1,289,920 m² (128.99 ha, 318.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aillemore 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
15 Dec 2025Conditional
Planning Permission for the retention of an extension with modifications to the existing dwelling, along with all associated ancillary site development works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560932
10 Dec 2025N/a
Planning Permission for the retention of an extension with modifications to the existing dwelling, along with all associated ancillary site development works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560908
15 Apr 2024Conditional
Extension to existing Hostel use comprising: construction of a 274sq.m. detached Facilities Building (height 5.7m) with reception, common room, games room, dining room and ancillary accommodation and services, construction of a 75sq.m. detached Storage Building (height 5m) containing laundry, plant room, equipment and wet gear store and bin store, 6no., 17.6sq.m. Glamping Pods (3no. @ 3.8m height and 3no. @ 4.2m height), play facilities, hard and soft landscaping and parking and all ancillary siteworks and services at Aillemore, Killeen, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo, F28V184
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460214
22 Jun 2023N/a
extension to an existing hostel comprising a facilities area (274sq.m.) with reception, common rooms, games room, dining room and ancillary accommodation and services, 8 no. additional bedrooms, storage facilities, plant room and bin store, 5 no. glamping pods, play facilities, hard and soft landscaping and all ancillary works, siteworks and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23349
28 Jun 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22527
8 Apr 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS AND SERVICES.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20244
5 Nov 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18870
14 May 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18341
2 Jan 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 181
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 Aillemore.
Recorded monuments
- MA095-018 Enclosure
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.
- MA095-019 Enclosure
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.
- MA095-020001 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Description
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 6 January 2012
- MA095-020002 Field boundary
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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aillemore.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Aillemore, about 1 in 5 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 Aillemore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Aillemore, Louisburgh5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Aillemore · An Aill Mhór
- Area
- 2,890,708 m² (289.07 ha, 714.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgeever, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Aillemore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 367 people lived in 151 households in the Aillemore electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonlaur, Cloonty, Corrydavit, Corrymailley, Devlin North, Devlin South, Feenune, Kinnadoohy, Tallavbaun
- Placenames
- Aillemore 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.