Bleachyard

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bleachyard, from 59 m² to 116,405 m² (11.64 ha, 28.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bleachyard 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.

• 24 Aug 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission to retain the extension and alterations of 2 no. existing dwelling houses. The development included demolition work for structural improvement, removing the front boundary wall of the site for off road parking, flood risk assessment, enlargement of the site including a landscaping plan with connection to public services and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2360336

• 27 Jul 2022N/a

  DEMOLISH AND REBUILD EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, AND TO UPGRADE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22633

• 6 Dec 2021Refused

  DEMOLITION AND REPLACEMENT OF 2 DERELICT DWELLINGS WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 211279

• 3 Nov 2017Conditional

  ESSENTIAL REPAIRS TO EXISTING 38KV LINE BETWEEN NEWPORT STATION AND ACHILL STATION. WORKS WILL INCLUDE REPLACING EXISTING DOUBLE WOOD POLES, STAYS AND HEADGEAR IN THE TOWNLANDS OF CARRICKANEADY, CLOONESHIL, DRUMLONG, CAMCLOON, DERRYLOUGHAN, DERRINTAGGART, KILTARNAGH, SHANVALLYHUGH, DERRADA, DERRYCOOLDRIM, CARROWSALLAGH, KNOCKBREAGA, TIERNAUR, ROSSGALIV, ROSSTUR, BUNNAHOWN, MURREVAGH, MALLARANNY, COIS LEICE, AN ABHAINN DUBH, TON RE GAOTH, POLL RAITHNI

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17872

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Newport River SAC 002144

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bleachyard.

Architectural heritage

• Worker's house, 1840–1897 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey mill worker's house[?], extant 1897. Now in private residential use. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack having capping supporting terracotta pots, lichen-covered coping to gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-two (ground floor) or one-over-one (first floor) timber sash windows. Set back from road in shared grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting timber gate.

• Worker's house, 1840–1897 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey mill worker's house[?], extant 1897. Now disused. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, lichen-covered coping to gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Part ivy-covered rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from road in shared grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting timber gate.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_212 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Bleachyard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Bleachyard · Clós an Tuair

Area

361,399 m² (36.14 ha, 89.3 acres)

Civil parish

Burrishoole, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Newport East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newport East electoral division: 1,318 people in 516 households; 68% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrackhill, Camcloon Beg, Derrykill West, Drumlong, Drummannaglieve

Placenames

Bleachyard 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.