# Alt, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo; in Irish Ailt. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 995,863 m² (99.59 ha, 246.08 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,552 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilcommon-belmullet-ra.md - Barony: Erris - Electoral division: Glencastle, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/35369 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150041 - Centre: latitude 54.194223, longitude -9.891113 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Alt, from 252 m² to 300,562 m² (30.06 ha, 74.27 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5924319: 300,562 m² (30.06 ha, 74.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5924319.md - Parcel 956553: 252,747 m² (25.27 ha, 62.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/956553.md - Parcel 916225: 146,351 m² (14.64 ha, 36.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/916225.md - Parcel 5924308: 127,659 m² (12.77 ha, 31.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5924308.md - Parcel 992101: 31,444 m² (3.14 ha, 7.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/992101.md - Parcel 956552: 28,675 m² (2.87 ha, 7.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/956552.md - Parcel 874929: 26,638 m² (2.66 ha, 6.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/874929.md - Parcel 873412: 22,748 m² (2.27 ha, 5.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873412.md - Parcel 1005080: 14,736 m² (1.47 ha, 3.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1005080.md - Parcel 962002: 11,846 m² (1.18 ha, 2.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962002.md - Parcel 4880741: 10,552 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4880741.md - Parcel 914690: 8,274 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/914690.md - Parcel 4880763: 3,921 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4880763.md - Parcel 922951: 2,861 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/922951.md - Parcel 5008789: 2,453 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5008789.md - Parcel 5989724: 2,339 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5989724.md - Parcel 890459: 2,206 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890459.md - Parcel 5008544: 1,926 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5008544.md - Parcel 985683: 351 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/985683.md - Parcel 5516420: 266 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5516420.md - Parcel 5989748: 252 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5989748.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 19 Jul 2021, Mayo County Council 21770: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/21770/0 - 5 Nov 2018, Mayo County Council 18873: Conditional. Permission. PERMISSION TO MODIFY THE EXISTING PERMISSION, P08/1997, TO ERECT THREE (3) 1MW TURBINES, CONTROL HOUSE AND ANCILLARY ASSOCIATED WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18873/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Alt. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Alt. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Alt. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/alt.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/alt.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/alt.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Alt with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bunnahowen: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bunnahowen.md - Carrowkeel: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowkeel-150662.md - Derrycorrib: https://everytownland.com/mayo/derrycorrib.md - Derrynameel: https://everytownland.com/mayo/derrynameel.md - Glencastle: https://everytownland.com/mayo/glencastle.md - Muings: https://everytownland.com/mayo/muings.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/alt - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/alt