Callowbrack
Callowbrack is a townland in the civil parish of Burrishoole, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Caladh Breac.
- Area
- 253.1 ha
- 626 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 40,249 m² (4.02 ha, 9.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Callowbrack, from 354 m² to 365,563 m² (36.56 ha, 90.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Callowbrack 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
11 Feb 2026Conditional
Dwelling House Extension and alterations at Callowbrack, Newport, Co Mayo F28 EY49
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2660111
10 Jun 2025Refused
The development will consist of the construction of a private dwelling house on the footprint of an existing ruined house together with a new effluent treatment system and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560365
13 Dec 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19969
15 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19809
9 Oct 2017Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC SHED, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17789
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: Clew Bay Complex SAC 001482
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Callowbrack.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Callowbrack.
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 Callowbrack, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Callowbrack.
- 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 Callowbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Callowbrack · An Caladh Breac
- Area
- 2,531,357 m² (253.14 ha, 625.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Burrishoole, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Newport East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonfoher, Derrygarve, Furnace, Tawnagrania, Tawnamartola, Treanbeg, Treanlaur
- Placenames
- Callowbrack 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.