Callacoon
Townland in the civil parish of Kilgeever, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo; in Irish Calacún
- Area
- 212.4 ha
- 525 acres
- Land parcels
- 131
- registered freehold, median 3,395 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
131 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Callacoon, from 10 m² to 313,943 m² (31.39 ha, 77.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 Callacoon 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
13 Jul 2026Refused
Planning application to retain and complete dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary siteworks and services on a revised site, from that granted on foot of Planning Permissions P06/2427 at Callacoon, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660563
6 Jun 2024N/a
Construct a private dwelling house and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460344
25 Sept 2023Conditional
construction of a private dwelling house, domestic garage and proprietary effluent treatment unit and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23544
3 Oct 2022Conditional
Change of house type from that granted under planning reference P19/26, together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22855
8 Dec 2021Refused
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 211282
19 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION/POLISHING BED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21509
3 Feb 2021Conditional
RETAIN ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO RETAIN A GARAGE AND TO RETAIN ALL EXISTING SITEWORKS TO INCLUDE SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ROADSIDE BOUNDARY WALLS, PREVIOUS PLANNING P95/1304
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2173
7 Mar 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19153
21 Jan 2019Conditional
Construct a two storey dwelling house and proprietary treatment unit, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 1926
17 Jan 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION/POLISHING BED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1916
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 Callacoon.
Recorded monuments
- MA096-005 Souterrain
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 Callacoon.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_85 (ZIP).
- 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
- Callacoon, Louisburgh6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Callacoon · Calacún
- Area
- 2,124,348 m² (212.43 ha, 524.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgeever, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Emlagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Emlagh electoral division: 331 people in 130 households; 88% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 40% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellakip, Caher, Carrowmore, Formoyle, Srahnashasky, Srahrevagh
- Placenames
- Callacoon 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.