Cashel
Townland in the civil parish of Achill, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Caiseal
- Area
- 682.2 ha
- 1,686 acres
- Land parcels
- 325
- registered freehold, median 3,919 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Village Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
325 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashel, from 6 m² to 4,940,783 m² (494.08 ha, 1,220.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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
- M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Jul 2025Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house and wastewater treatment system
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560467
30 Jun 2025Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house and wastewater treatment system
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560428
30 Jun 2025Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house and wastewater treatment system
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560429
1 Oct 2024Conditional
The development will consist of the provision of a new trailhead including 11 no car-parking spaces, bike parking spaces, bicycle rental / maintenance shed/structure, toilet pod, sheltered picnic pod, public information board and waste collection facilities, picnic seating area, bicycle charging points, new vehicular entrance from the neighbouring public roadway and all associated site, landscaping and ancillary works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460610
21 Feb 2024Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house with wastewater treatment system
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460064
22 Dec 2023Conditional
Construct A New Dwelling House, Proprietary Effluent Treatment System, Soil Polishing Filter/Percolation Area Including All Associated Site Development Works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360571
24 Aug 2023Conditional
construction of a new extension to side and rear of the existing dwelling with new roof and all necessary modifications and alterations to elevations
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23482
5 May 2023Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment system along with all necessary site works and ancillaries
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23245
21 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ANCILLARIES ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21529
26 May 2020Conditional
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank, percolation area and ancillary services. Previous permission P 09/218
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20326
25 Feb 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19123
5 Feb 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 1966
24 Jan 2019N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCIILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1931
19 Dec 2018Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A GARAGE AND PEDESTRIAN ENTRANCE
Retention · Mayo County Council, 181024
29 Jun 2018Refused
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18477
14 Sept 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT FACILITY ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17742
29 Aug 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PECOLATION AREA AND TO RETAIN EXISTING ACCESS ROAD TO LANDS TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17706
8 May 2017N/a
CONSTRUCT GARAGE AND FORM A NEW ENTRANCE TO DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17336
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: Keel Machair/Menaun Cliffs SAC 001513
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Keel Machair/Menaun Cliffs 001513
Recorded monuments
- MA055-007 Ritual site - holy well
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.
- MA055-008 House - indeterminate date
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.
- MA055-009 Ringfort - cashel
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.
- MA055-010 Children's burial ground
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.
- MA055-011 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.
- MA055-012 Children's burial ground
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.
- MA055-013 Children's burial ground
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
- Post box, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
Description
Pier-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, extant 1915, with "GR [Georgius Rex]" royal cipher. Set in limewashed pier.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Cashel.
- 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
No address of the register names Cashel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Cashel · An Caiseal
- Area
- 6,821,897 m² (682.19 ha, 1,685.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Achill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Achill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Achill electoral division: 798 people in 345 households; 84% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Cashel 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.