Atticonaun
Atticonaun is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Áit Tí Conáin.
- Area
- 225.6 ha
- 557 acres
- Land parcels
- 147
- registered freehold, median 4,519 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning
- G5
- Recreation & Amenity
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
147 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Atticonaun, from 23 m² to 109,387 m² (10.94 ha, 27.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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
- G5Recreation & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 May 2025Conditional
retention of an independent living unit and garage and all ancillary site works
Retention · Mayo County Council, 25186
21 Mar 2025N/a
retention permission for a garage construction and all ancillary site works
Retention · Mayo County Council, 25111
4 Dec 2023Conditional
change each detached 4 bed house numbers 3 and 4 into 3 and 2 bed semi-detached dwellings (within existing footprint)
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23642
20 Jan 2023Conditional
demolish elements of existing dwelling, construct new extension to existing dwelling, carry out alterations to the existing dwelling and carry out any other works as necessary
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2314
25 Jul 2022Conditional
Permission for building modifications and change of use to industrial/manufacturing, popup retail area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22611
19 Nov 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 85 SQM DOMESTIC SHED WITH 60 SQM EXTERNAL CONCRETE SURFACING TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 211208
15 Jun 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER/STORM WATER SYSTEM AND TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PERMISSION
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21636
4 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC SHED, NEW SITE ACCESS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21578
29 Oct 2020Refused
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20807
15 Jun 2020Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20379
2 Jul 2019Conditional
Permission for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, new effluent treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19504
25 Jun 2019Conditional
ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED P11/120 & P11/1200 - 30 NO. HOUSING DEVELOPMENT TO NOW CONSTRUCT 9 NO. 2 STOREY DWELLING UNITS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELPMENT WORKS AND CONNECTION TO UTILITIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19490
18 Apr 2019N/a
Alterations to previously approved planning permission P11/120 & P11/1200, 30 unit housing development. Planning to now construct 9 No. 2 storey dwellings houses and all associated site development, external works and connection to utilities
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19280
30 Jul 2018Conditional
RETENTION OF: FOOD PREPARATION AREAS 24.58 SQM, EXTERNAL TOILET 2.43 SQM, EXTERNAL SMOKING AREA 19.84 SQM, WINDOW AND DOOR POSITIONS IN FRONT , REAR AND SIDE ELEVATIONS, ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING SPACES TO THE NORTH WESTERN CARPARK AREA 419.72 SQM, ATTACHED TO THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED P08/72
Retention · Mayo County Council, 18586
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Broadhaven Bay SAC 000472
- Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Broadhaven Bay 000472
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Atticonaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Atticonaun.
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 Atticonaun, 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 moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Atticonaun.
- 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
No address of the register names Atticonaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Atticonaun · Áit Tí Conáin
- Area
- 2,255,861 m² (225.59 ha, 557.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- Belmullet, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,143 people lived in 809 households in the Belmullet electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Belmullet, Corclogh, Derrycorrib, Toorglass
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Atticonaun 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.