Carheens

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carheens, from 59 m² to 111,500 m² (11.15 ha, 27.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Carheens 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.

• 13 Jul 2026Conditional

  construct a new agricultural building wihc incorporates cubicles, a feeding area and slatted tanks, along with all associated services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26158

• 9 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21330

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

• MA123-005001 Church
  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.

• MA123-005002 Graveyard
  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.

• MA123-005003 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.

• MA123-005004 Tomb - unclassified
  Description

  Located slightly W of centre within a graveyard (MA123-005002-). Indicated as 'Vault' on the 1929 OS 6-inch map. A 19th-century stone-built vaulted tomb (3.55m N-S; 3.45m E-W; H 2m), topped by a stepped arrangement of finely cut limestone slabs with the apex surmounted by a decorative stone urn. A slab set in the S wall carries a dedication to the D'Arcy family of Houndswood, Castletown and Ballykine. The entrance to the vault is at N and is unsealed, though partly blocked by later drystone walling. The tomb stands within a square enclosure (7.1m E–W; 7.4m N–S) delimited by a roughly-built drystone wall. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 July 2015

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Renovated, ----. Reroofed, 2006. Replacement pitched reed thatch roof on collared timber construction with exposed steel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered dwarf chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, concrete or rendered coping to gable (east), and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Interior including parlour retaining timber boarded vaulted ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road with rendered panelled piers to perimeter having segmental capping supporting wrought iron gate.

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 10 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 Carheens.

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

Name

Carheens · An Caithrín

Area

947,619 m² (94.76 ha, 234.16 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Houndswood, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Houndswood electoral division: 659 people in 256 households; 86% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castletown, Coolavally, Cordroon, Funshinaugh

Placenames

Carheens 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.