Caffoley
Townland in the civil parish of Addergoole, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cafuaile
- Area
- 160.3 ha
- 396 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 28,386 m² (2.84 ha, 7.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caffoley, from 209 m² to 188,676 m² (18.87 ha, 46.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Caffoley 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
12 Dec 2025Refused
planning permission for the following development: 1. The construction of a new dwelling house. 2. The construction of a domestic garage. 3. The installation of a new sewage treatment plant with soil polishing filter. 4. And all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560929
18 May 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, A PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22377
27 Nov 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18944
30 Jan 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 1849
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
- Special Protection Area: Lough Conn and Lough Cullin SPA 004228
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Conn And Lough Cullin 000519
Recorded monuments
- MA047-027 Enclosure
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.
- MA047-063 Enclosure
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 Caffoley.
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
- About 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caffoley.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Caffoley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Caffoley · Cafuaile
- Area
- 1,602,734 m² (160.27 ha, 396.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Addergoole, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Crossmolina South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Crossmolina South electoral division: 870 people in 349 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlehill, Cum, Knockfarnaght, Knockmaria or Addergoole
- Placenames
- Caffoley 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.