# Bleachyard, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Burrishoole, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Clós an Tuair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 361,399 m² (36.14 ha, 89.3 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,681 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Burrishoole, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/burrishoole.md - Barony: Burrishoole - Electoral division: Newport East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,318 people lived in 516 households in the Newport East electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37381 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150400 - Centre: latitude 53.89199, longitude -9.526669 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bleachyard, from 59 m² to 116,405 m² (11.64 ha, 28.76 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 881217: 116,405 m² (11.64 ha, 28.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881217.md - Parcel 970158: 71,677 m² (7.17 ha, 17.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/970158.md - Parcel 6076052: 70,002 m² (7 ha, 17.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6076052.md - Parcel 985355: 48,667 m² (4.87 ha, 12.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985355.md - Parcel 920906: 28,741 m² (2.87 ha, 7.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/920906.md - Parcel 886343: 10,681 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/886343.md - Parcel 4420837: 3,113 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4420837.md - Parcel 921577: 571 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/921577.md - Parcel 2705819: 405 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2705819.md - Parcel 5403263: 244 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5403263.md - Parcel 2705817: 59 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2705817.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 24 Aug 2023, Mayo County Council 2360336: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360336/0 - 27 Jul 2022, Mayo County Council 22633: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/22633/0 - 6 Dec 2021, Mayo County Council 211279: Refused. Retention. DEMOLITION AND REPLACEMENT OF 2 DERELICT DWELLINGS WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/211279/0 - 3 Nov 2017, Mayo County Council 17872: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/17872/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Newport River SAC, site code 002144, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002144 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bleachyard. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Worker's house, 1840–1897, Regional interest, registry number 31208033, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA®no=31208033. 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, registry number 31208034, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA®no=31208034. 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. ## 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 Bleachyard, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_212, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_212.zip (ZIP). - 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/bleachyard.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bleachyard.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bleachyard.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bleachyard 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) - Barrackhill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/barrackhill.md - Camcloon Beg: https://everytownland.com/mayo/camcloon-beg.md - Derrykill West: https://everytownland.com/mayo/derrykill-west.md - Drumlong: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumlong.md - Drummannaglieve: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drummannaglieve.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/bleachyard - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/bleachyard