Castletown
Townland in the civil parish of Cong, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Áth Choirc
- Area
- 281.8 ha
- 696 acres
- Land parcels
- 92
- registered freehold, median 8,022 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 45 m² to 198,105 m² (19.81 ha, 48.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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
No zone of a development plan covers Castletown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jun 2026Conditional
(1) the retention of a dwelling house as constructed on revised boundaries, previously granted under planning file reference 99/2932, (2) the retention of a domestic shed, (3) the construction of a domestic garage, along with all associated site development works at the above address.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660506
5 Dec 2025Conditional
retention planning permission at this site is being sought for the following development: To retain a conservatory extension to the side elevation of existing dwelling house and to retain an existing boat house constructed on site.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560887
28 Apr 2025N/a
retention planning permission at this site is being sought for the following development: To retain a conservatory extension to the side elevation of existing dwelling house and to retain an existing boat house constructed on site.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560246
9 Apr 2025Conditional
Proposed ground and first floor extension works to existing property, replacement of existing roof & all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560210
5 Mar 2025N/a
1. Retention of the house as constructed. 2. Retention of domestic garage as constructed. 3. Permission to change elevations. 4. Permission to construct a new porch. 5. Permission to upgrade an existing wastewater treatment system and all associated site works at the above address.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560118
13 Feb 2025Conditional
Permission to renovate and extend existing dwelling comprising of: (A) Construction of a new single storey flat roof extension to the rear of 31.5 sqm, (B) Construction of first floor pitched roof extension 156.4 sqm, (C) Raising of finished ground floor level by 225mm, (D) External alterations including replacement of windows, new external finishes and all associated site works at the above address.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560073
9 Oct 2024N/a
1. Retention of the house as constructed. 2. Retention of domestic garage as constructed. 3. Permission to change elevations. 4. Permission to construct a new porch. 5. Permission for the construction of a new proprietary wastewater treatment system, and all associated works at the above address.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2460633
2 Oct 2024Conditional
Retention Permission for existing domestic garage and domestic storage shed together with all associated site works
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2460619
16 Jul 2024Conditional
RETENTION OF A HABITABLE USE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL, THE ADDITION OF 2 ROOFLIGHTS ON THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, AN ADDITIONAL STEEL SHED TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. PREVIOUS PLANNING REFERENCES P98/1004, P03/2067 AND P05/2306 RELATE TO THE ORIGINAL PROPERTY.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2460449
7 Jul 2022Conditional
REMOVING THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM SERVING THE DWELLING HOUSE AND IN ITS PLACE TO INSTALL A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22558
3 Mar 2022Refused
RETENTION OF RECENTLY DRILLED BOREHOLE PLUS PERMISSION FOR A NEW SINGLE STOREY TREATMENT PLANT BUILDING. AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT AND A HYDROGEOLOGICAL REPORT IS SUBMITTED.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22160
12 Dec 2019Conditional
RETENTION FOR A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A DOMESTIC FUEL STORE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 19962
5 Jun 2019Conditional
RETAIN A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Retention · Mayo County Council, 19425
17 Jan 2019Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING GARAGE AND STORAGE SHED. INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS/SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1917
20 Dec 2018Conditional
RETENTION OF DWELLING WITH SERVICES ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER P16/777
Retention · Mayo County Council, 181027
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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
- Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297
Recorded monuments
- MA123-006 Castle - unclassified
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.
- MA123-007 Castle - unclassified
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.
- MA123-025 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.
- MA123-026 Earthwork
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.
- MA123-027 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.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1894, originally four-bay single-storey[?] with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porch. Extended, pre-1924, producing present composition[?]. Disused, 2007. Derelict, 2011. Pitched reed or straw thatch roof on collared timber construction overhanging gablet to window opening to dormer attic to rear (north) pitch with degraded ridge retaining steel scallops, fine roughcast chimney stacks having chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Cement rendered battered wall to front (south) elevation bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered strips to corners supporting rendered band to eaves; limewashed line rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes with two-over-two timber sash (ground floor) or timber casement (dormer attic) windows to rear (north) elevation. Square-headed opposing door openings with fittings not visible. Set back from road in unkempt grounds with cast-iron colonette piers to perimeter supporting looped flat iron double gates.
- Farm house, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1894, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed open windbreak. Now disused. Part mesh-covered pitched reed thatch roof with exposed steel stretchers to raised ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and concrete coping to gables. Cement rendered battered wall to front (east) elevation on rendered plinth with rendered strips to ends supporting rendered band to eaves; repointed coursed rubble limestone walls (remainder). Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills[?], and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing one-over-one or two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled doors. Set back from line of road in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter supporting barley twist-detailed flat 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).
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 moderately high, 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 Castletown.
- 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
- Castletown, Cross5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Castletown · Áth Choirc
- Area
- 2,818,071 m² (281.81 ha, 696.36 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
- Ballynalty, Carheens, Funshinaugh, Inishmicatreer (Co. Galway)
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Castletown 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.