# Cahergal, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Burrishoole, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Chathair Gheal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 299,539 m² (29.95 ha, 74.02 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,253 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application 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/37382 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150527 - Centre: latitude 53.898203, longitude -9.555679 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahergal, from 979 m² to 99,854 m² (9.99 ha, 24.67 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 891156: 99,854 m² (9.99 ha, 24.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/891156.md - Parcel 1003538: 72,747 m² (7.27 ha, 17.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003538.md - Parcel 873069: 55,717 m² (5.57 ha, 13.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873069.md - Parcel 893620: 50,104 m² (5.01 ha, 12.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/893620.md - Parcel 6041592: 10,667 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6041592.md - Parcel 4655796: 3,838 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4655796.md - Parcel 5632033: 2,155 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5632033.md - Parcel 895047: 2,074 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895047.md - Parcel 904207: 1,227 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/904207.md - Parcel 950048: 979 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/950048.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cahergal 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) 1 application, newest first. - 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) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cahergal. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA067-036: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA067-036----. 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. 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 Cahergal. ## 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 Cahergal, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_187, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_187.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/cahergal.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cahergal.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cahergal.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cahergal 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) - Derrintaggart: https://everytownland.com/mayo/derrintaggart.md - Derryloughan More: https://everytownland.com/mayo/derryloughan-more.md - Drumbrastle East: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumbrastle-east.md - Drumbrastle West: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumbrastle-west.md - Kiltarnaght: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kiltarnaght.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/cahergal - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/cahergal