Canbrack

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Canbrack, from 169 m² to 63,562 m² (6.36 ha, 15.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 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 Canbrack 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.

• 23 Aug 2026N/a

  PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, AND TO INSTALL A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660670

• 10 Jun 2026N/a

  permission for development consisting of 1. The retention of existing stone filling and the retention of existing mobile home. 2. The construction of dwelling house, domestic garage, the installation of proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26132

• 2 Dec 2025Refused

  retention of existing stone filling and the retention of existing mobile home, construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25489

• 22 Oct 2025N/a

  Proposed dwellinghouse, domestic garage proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560742

• 17 Jun 2024N/a

  construct a dwelling house and garage and to install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24234

• 28 Jul 2022Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING STORAGE SHED AND PROPOSED EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING STORAGE SHED ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 22632

• 25 May 2022Conditional

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, TOGETHER WTIH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 22405

• 9 Dec 2021N/a

  RETAIN DOMESTIC GARAGE ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 211288

• 26 Oct 2018Conditional

  RETENTION OF SHREDDING/BLENDING SHED, RETENTION OF OFFICES AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 18847

• 20 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18181

• 5 Sept 2017N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING CHICKEN HOUSE TO DRYING BEDS FOR SEAWEED,THE RETENTION OF SHREDDING/BEDDING SHED, THE RETENTION OF OFFICES TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17713

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Canbrack.

Architectural heritage

• Canbrack National School, school, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey national school, opened 1888; extant 1895, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower porch. Closed, 1973. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred in rendered chimney stack having corbelled stepped stringcourse below chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron square profile downpipes. Part ivy-covered roughcast walls on lichen-covered chamfered plinth with date stone now missing. Square-headed window openings centred on paired square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with fittings now boarded-up. Set in unkempt grounds on a corner site with ivy-covered tuck pointed limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-limestone chamfered capping.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Canbrack.

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 Canbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Canbrack · An Ceann Breac

Area

1,074,240 m² (107.42 ha, 265.45 acres)

Civil parish

Killedan, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Kiltamagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltamagh electoral division: 1,626 people in 691 households; 71% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balloorclerhy, Ballynamona, Caher, Carrick, Cuilgar, Derrykinlough, Derrynaned, Devleash

Placenames

Canbrack 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.