Alt

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Alt, from 252 m² to 300,562 m² (30.06 ha, 74.27 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 Alt 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.

• 19 Jul 2021Conditional

  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, 21770

• 5 Nov 2018Conditional

  PERMISSION TO MODIFY THE EXISTING PERMISSION, P08/1997, TO ERECT THREE (3) 1MW TURBINES, CONTROL HOUSE AND ANCILLARY ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18873

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 Alt.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Alt.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Alt, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Alt · Ailt

Area

995,863 m² (99.59 ha, 246.08 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Glencastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

499 people lived in 194 households in the Glencastle electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunnahowen, Carrowkeel, Derrycorrib, Derrynameel, Glencastle, Muings

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Alt 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.