# Breastagh, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Templemurry, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Bréisteach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,094,070 m² (109.41 ha, 270.35 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,978 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Templemurry, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/templemurry.md
- Barony: Tirawley
- Electoral division: Lackan South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34606
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150457
- Centre: latitude 54.248867, longitude -9.248178 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Breastagh, from 70 m² to 244,904 m² (24.49 ha, 60.52 acres); 37 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 899808: 244,904 m² (24.49 ha, 60.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/899808.md
- Parcel 2718873: 120,069 m² (12.01 ha, 29.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2718873.md
- Parcel 1003863: 118,225 m² (11.82 ha, 29.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003863.md
- Parcel 937945: 114,632 m² (11.46 ha, 28.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937945.md
- Parcel 977401: 97,270 m² (9.73 ha, 24.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977401.md
- Parcel 977800: 96,196 m² (9.62 ha, 23.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977800.md
- Parcel 976861: 92,902 m² (9.29 ha, 22.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976861.md
- Parcel 937121: 74,198 m² (7.42 ha, 18.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937121.md
- Parcel 894680: 31,812 m² (3.18 ha, 7.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/894680.md
- Parcel 903619: 28,936 m² (2.89 ha, 7.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903619.md
- Parcel 4429836: 22,572 m² (2.26 ha, 5.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4429836.md
- Parcel 5438336: 5,384 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5438336.md
- Parcel 2448243: 4,920 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2448243.md
- Parcel 5297838: 4,603 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5297838.md
- Parcel 4429835: 4,315 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4429835.md
- Parcel 930423: 3,826 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/930423.md
- Parcel 951141: 2,390 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/951141.md
- Parcel 890450: 2,050 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890450.md
- Parcel 955867: 2,005 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955867.md
- Parcel 954004: 1,247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/954004.md
- Parcel 917756: 213 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/917756.md
- Parcel 954870: 70 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/954870.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 16 Feb 2018, Mayo County Council 1896: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/1896/0
- 28 Feb 2017, Mayo County Council 17123: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/17123/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA015-017: Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA015-017----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA015-018001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA015-018002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA015-019----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Breastagh, 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 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 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/breastagh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/breastagh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/breastagh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Breastagh 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)

- Cashel: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cashel-150805.md
- Cloonboy: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonboy-150932.md
- Fallataggart: https://everytownland.com/mayo/fallataggart.md
- Rathfran: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rathfran.md
- Rathfranpark: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rathfranpark.md
- Tooreen: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tooreen-153119.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.

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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.

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