Cahernagollum

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernagollum, from 166 m² to 107,677 m² (10.77 ha, 26.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cahernagollum 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.

• 3 Dec 2018Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, garage, sewage treatment unit and percolation area together with all necessary site ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18964

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 Cahernagollum.

Recorded monuments

• MA118-059 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture. Shown on OS map (1838) as circular enclosure. Surrounding terrain would suggest the site may have been a cashel. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 324. Date of upload: 22 November 2013

• MA118-060 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.

• MA118-138 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  Found in cairn, during quarrying. Large centrally placed cist (H 1.3m), orientated E-W. Two large side stones remain, one inclined towards the other, and are overlain by a capstone (L 1.2m; Wth 1.5m; T 0.3m). No burials or grave goods were recorded. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 14, 28. Date of upload: 5 December 2012

• MA118-146 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In undulating scrubland, surrounded by same. Circular area (48m N-S; 47m E-W), enclosed by poorly preserved wall (H 0.3m ; Wth 2m), overlain by modern field fence. Two modern gates on E. Site heavily overgrown. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 260. Date of upload: 3 February 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Cahernagollum.

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.

No address of the register names Cahernagollum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cahernagollum · Cathair na gColm

Area

757,711 m² (75.77 ha, 187.23 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinchalla, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Neale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Neale electoral division: 879 people in 298 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghafadda, Ballinaya, Ballinchalla, Bunavaunish, Bunnadober, Castletown, Killour, Lissanisky

Placenames

Cahernagollum 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.