Breastagh

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Breastagh, from 70 m² to 244,904 m² (24.49 ha, 60.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Breastagh 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.

• 16 Feb 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 1896

• 28 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT WINTER HOUSING FACILITY COMPRISING OF A SLATTED AREA, DRY BED SECTION, FEEDING PASSAGE, ISOLATION SECTION AND UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE, FARMYARD MANURE STORAGE SHED, CONCRETE ENCLOSED YARD FACILITY TO INCLUDE CRUSH FOR ANIMAL HANDLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17123

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Breastagh.

Recorded monuments

• MA015-017 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 2 January 2012

• MA015-018001 Ogham stone
  Description

  Located in coastal pasture. There is a wedge tomb (MA015-017) c. 300m to N. This ogham stone is a national monument (no. 415) in state guardianship. When discovery in the 1874, the ogham stone (total L c. 3.6m) lay prostrate on the ground. It appeared to overlie a possible grave (MA015-018002-), a cavity at the S end of which was identified as the socket in which the stone once stood (Ferguson, 1870-9, 201-206). The stone was soon afterwards erected in its current position. It consists of a massive upright stone (current H 2.75m; 0.98m WSW-ENE; 0.58m NNW-SSE), with a rectangular cross-section. The top of the stone is cut obliquely, so that it rises to a point at one side. There are ogham inscriptions on the NE and SE angles. The inscription extends the entire length of the NE angle; it is partly obscured by lichen. On the SE angle, the inscription begins 1.2m above ground level. Sections of the inscription on both angles have been eroded. The inscriptions have been interpreted as: (left angle) L[ ... ]G̣G̣[ ... ]SD[ ... ]LENGẸṢCẠ[D] (right angle) MAQ CORRBRI MAQ AMMLLỌNG[I]TT -which may be translated as '... son of Coirpre son of Amalgaid.' This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=10 Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 November 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 89/1940).

• MA015-018002 Burial
  Description

  Located adjacent to an ogham stone (MA015-018001-). When the ogham stones was discovery in the late 1800s, it was prostrate on the ground, lying ‘over what seem to be grave’, visible as a ‘slight elevation marked by lines of stones, lying north and south’ (Ferguson 1870-9, 201-206). A cavity at the S end of the grave was identified as the socket in which the ogham stone once stood. No other details of this possible grave were recorded. There is a wedge tomb (MA015-017----) c. 300m to N. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 November 2018

• MA015-019 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  Located in the garden of a modern bungalow. Not indicated on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. This is said to be the site of a megalithic tomb, however, there is no substantiated description of the structure on record. According to local information, there was ‘a mound of clay between stones’ which was located in a shallow dip or hollow. No visible trace. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 November 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Breastagh.

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 Breastagh, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Breastagh.

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

Name

Breastagh · Bréisteach

Area

1,094,070 m² (109.41 ha, 270.35 acres)

Civil parish

Templemurry, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Lackan South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

460 people lived in 181 households in the Lackan South electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel, Cloonboy, Fallataggart, Rathfran, Rathfranpark, Tooreen

Placenames

Breastagh 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.