Castlesheenaghan

111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlesheenaghan, from 52 m² to 67,356 m² (6.74 ha, 16.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Castlesheenaghan 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.

• 27 Jul 2023Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23428

• 30 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, COMPLETE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18296

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castlesheenaghan.

Recorded monuments

• MA072-016 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Incorporated into a farmyard, and bordered by a modern house and garden immediately to W. Raised circular area (28m N−S; 27m E−W) enclosed by a drystone wall (int. H 0.6m at N, 1.3m at S; ext. H 1.7m at N, 1.2m at S). The wall has been greatly modified as a result of incorporation into later field walls and the farmyard. It varies in width; it is narrowest at W (Wth 1.7m), but elsewhere much of the internal wall face has slumped to a gentle sod-covered slope, giving an overall width in parts at N and S of c. 4m. Short sections of intact internal stone facing are still visible in at SE−S and W. At ENE a portion of the wall has been partly removed, where a modern shed has been built against the external face of the cashel. At E, a gap (Wth 3.2m), now fitted with a modern gate, opens into a cattle yard, which abuts the cashel exterior. There is another gated break (Wth 2.7m) at NNE. A barn stands in the SE quadrant of the interior. Sycamore and hawthorn trees grow around the perimeter. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 February 2021

• MA072-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on top of an E−W ridge, with excellent views in all directions. Raised circular area or low platform (37.5m N−S; 39.5m E−W) defined by an earthen scarp (H c. 0.8-1.2m), which is faced with drystone walling and topped by a low stony lip (Wth 2-3m; H 0.15-0.45m), and enclosed by a well defined fosse (Wth 3.4m) and an outer bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1-1.4m; ext. H 1.5-1.65m) with external stone facing. The stone-faced scarp appears to have been topped by a wall, reduced now to a low stony rise on the W half of the circuit; on the E half, the scarp is topped by a narrow, roughly-built drystone wall (Wth 0.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.2m) which appears to be a later field wall designed to serve as a property boundary. Several breaks around the circuit at N, E, and S allow access to the interior from surrounding fields. The original entrance may have been at E, where there is a causeway across the fosse and a gap (Wth 3.6m) in the outer bank. The centre of the interior is very gently domed. There is a poorly defined hollow slightly to S of centre, with a few stones protruding from it. In the SE quadrant, several large stones and boulders lie adjacent to a small stony rise. A field wall/property boundary, on a NNW−SSE axis, crosses the cashel to W of centre. The outer stone bank is lightly ringed with hawthorn trees. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 February 2021

• MA072-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a NE−SW ridge, at the break of slope at on the W side of the ridge. There are good views ESE−NW. Slightly raised broadly oval area (c. 30-35m E−W; c. 25m N−S) defined by a scarp (H 0.4m at W, 1m at N) with remnants of stone facing. It has been modified and incorporated into a system of later field walls: A drystone field wall, set 2-3m in from the scarp, encloses the interior in a broad arc SW−NE, and intersects at NE with a N-S field wall that cuts across the E edge of the ringfort; there is an inward or W-facing scarp 1-2m to W of the N-S field wall, extending parallel to it through the ringfort interior, with a number of boulders set against it at its S end. The S edge of the ringfort may have been partly cut away by the road that lies immediately to S of it; it is now faced externally and topped with drystone walling. The interior is largely obscured by a thicket of blackthorn. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 April 2021

Architectural heritage

• Cashel National School, school, 1905–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey national school, dated 1910; extant 1924, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porches centred on single-bay full-height gabled projecting breakfront. Closed, 1972. For sale, 1972. Renovated to accommodate occasional alternative use. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan extending into lean-to slate roofs centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in red brick Running bond chimney stacks centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack on axis with ridge having lichen-covered chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, coping to gable to porch on thumbnail beaded kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered walls. Square-headed window openings centred on paired square-headed window openings below rusticated cut-limestone[?] date stone ("1910") with cut-limestone sills[?], and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows centred on replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Set back from road in landscaped grounds.

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_612 (ZIP).

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

Name

Castlesheenaghan · Caiseal Síonacháin

Area

1,590,678 m² (159.07 ha, 393.07 acres)

Civil parish

Meelick, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Brackloon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Brackloon electoral division: 655 people in 236 households; 87% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowcanada, Castlebarnagh, Castlecrunnoge, Derryronan, Knockranny, Rabaun, Treanlaur

Placenames

Castlesheenaghan 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.