# Castleaffy, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeena, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Caiseal Aife. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 531,334 m² (53.13 ha, 131.3 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,868 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmeena, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilmeena.md - Barony: Burrishoole - Electoral division: Kilmeena, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,616 people lived in 558 households in the Kilmeena electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37247 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150819 - Centre: latitude 53.83709, longitude -9.589147 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castleaffy, from 56 m² to 127,532 m² (12.75 ha, 31.51 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 972490: 127,532 m² (12.75 ha, 31.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972490.md - Parcel 881481: 102,072 m² (10.21 ha, 25.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881481.md - Parcel 972489: 101,583 m² (10.16 ha, 25.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972489.md - Parcel 972491: 66,756 m² (6.68 ha, 16.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972491.md - Parcel 3599279: 57,245 m² (5.72 ha, 14.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3599279.md - Parcel 4991287: 31,178 m² (3.12 ha, 7.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4991287.md - Parcel 953880: 7,401 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953880.md - Parcel 4279580: 4,016 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4279580.md - Parcel 3669939: 3,624 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3669939.md - Parcel 2896254: 3,308 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2896254.md - Parcel 2954377: 3,066 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2954377.md - Parcel 916133: 2,778 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/916133.md - Parcel 922336: 2,638 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/922336.md - Parcel 881480: 2,605 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881480.md - Parcel 3599306: 2,181 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3599306.md - Parcel 946022: 2,141 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/946022.md - Parcel 967552: 1,975 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/967552.md - Parcel 960176: 1,868 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/960176.md - Parcel 963353: 1,823 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/963353.md - Parcel 965522: 1,216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/965522.md - Parcel 921894: 1,148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/921894.md - Parcel 4279559: 1,011 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4279559.md - Parcel 915994: 314 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/915994.md - Parcel 956734: 263 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/956734.md - Parcel 950651: 242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/950651.md - Parcel 956745: 229 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/956745.md - Parcel 956735: 192 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/956735.md - Parcel 916022: 165 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/916022.md - Parcel 2708936: 164 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2708936.md - Parcel 882114: 147 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/882114.md - Parcel 915995: 97 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/915995.md - Parcel 914135: 83 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/914135.md - Parcel 2438697: 72 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2438697.md - Parcel 1011439: 67 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1011439.md - Parcel 2438695: 56 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2438695.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Castleaffy in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 11 Jun 2026, Mayo County Council 26134: Conditional. Permission. PERMISSION to 1. Construct extension and carry out alteration to existing dwelling house, 2. PERMISSION TO RETAIN and complete extension for change of use of domestic garage to independent living unit associated with the existing house, 3. PERMISSION to upgrade existing septic tank to effluent treatment system and percolation area together with associated site works on lands. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/26134/0 - 14 Oct 2024, Mayo County Council 24438: Conditional. Permission. construct extension and renovations to existing club house and changing rooms together with associated site services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/24438/0 - 15 Mar 2024, Mayo County Council 2460144: Conditional. Permission. The development will consist of the completion & fit-out of the unfinished attic space, construction of a new dormer, plan and elevation amendments, and all associated site works and landscaping.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460144/0 - 18 Sept 2023, Mayo County Council 23530: Conditional. Permission. construct all weather astro turf pitch at existing football grounds together with associated site services. Previous planning reference P22/393. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/23530/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Clew Bay Complex SAC, site code 001482, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001482 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex, site code 001482 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA076-018: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA076-018----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castleaffy. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Castleaffy, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castleaffy. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/castleaffy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/castleaffy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/castleaffy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Castleaffy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Drumgarve: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumgarve.md - Moyna: https://everytownland.com/mayo/moyna.md - Moyour: https://everytownland.com/mayo/moyour.md - Rassakeeran: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rassakeeran.md - Roscahill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/roscahill.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/castleaffy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/castleaffy