Cabintown
Cabintown is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Baile an Chábáin.
- Area
- 78.1 ha
- 193 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 4,207 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cabintown, from 540 m² to 132,878 m² (13.29 ha, 32.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cabintown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Cabintown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cabintown.
Recorded monuments
- MA007-009001 Stone circle
Description
In wet peatland, situated on a gentle W-facing slope, providing good views in all directions and overlooking the Atlantic Ocean to W. This monument is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map or on the 25-inch plan. It is depicted on the 1922 OS 6-inch edition as a circle of boulders (diam. c. 25m) and is named ‘Stone circle’. Inspected in 1997, it comprises a subtriangular area (32.2m WNW-ESE; 23.6m NNE-SSW) defined by a series of thirty stones. Seven of the stones are fully upright, six are set on edge, fifteen are irregularly-shaped boulders randomly set and the remaining four stones are low and largely peat-covered. Ground level in the enclosed area is uneven. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 February 2021
- MA007-009002 Field boundary
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA007-075 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cabintown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cabintown, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cabintown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cabintown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Cabintown · Baile an Chábáin
- Area
- 780,727 m² (78.07 ha, 192.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Lackan North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 306 people lived in 139 households in the Lackan North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymachugh, Castletown, Kilbride, Muingrevagh
- Placenames
- Cabintown 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.