Aughness

106 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughness, from 102 m² to 2,376,347 m² (237.63 ha, 587.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Aughness 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.

• 8 Apr 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21319

• 31 May 2019Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING 30M HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE, ANTENNAS, EQUIPMENT CONTAINER AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT WITHIN A FENCED COMPOUND AND ACCESS TRACK. (P11/213 REFERS)

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 19428

• 8 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING FLAT ROOF ENTRANCE PORCH TO THE FRONT. UPGRADE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH NEW TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18148

• 13 Feb 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT SLATTED HOUSE, SILAGE SLAB AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 1885

• 27 Nov 2017Conditional

  RETAIN CHANGES TO THE WEST ELEVATION, INSTALLATION OF FIRST FLOOR WINDOWS AND RELOCATION OF SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 17938

• 22 Sept 2017Conditional

  RETAIN AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT ELEVATION, FIRST FLOOR GABLE WINDOWS AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 17757

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
• Special Protection Area: Owenduff/Nephin Complex SPA 004098
• Natural Heritage Area: Tullaghan Bay And Bog NHA 001567
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Owenduff/Nephin Complex 000534

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aughness.

Architectural heritage

• Croy Lodge, hunting/fishing lodge, 1800–1832 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey fishing lodge with half-dormer attic, extant 1832, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Occupied, 1950. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered, ruled and lined chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on exposed timber rafters. Rendered, ruled and lined coursed rubble limestone battered walls with concealed flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (porch) with concrete sill, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash window having one-over-one sidelights. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-three timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds. Photography courtesy of Seán Lysaght

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 Aughness, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Aughness · Eachinis

Area

11,068,327 m² (1,106.83 ha, 2,735.04 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Ballycroy North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

285 people lived in 110 households in the Ballycroy North electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Lagduff Beg, Lagduff More, Muingnanarnad, Srahnamanragh

Placenames

Aughness 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.