Castletown

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 94 m² to 106,956 m² (10.7 ha, 26.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 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.

• 4 Sept 2023Conditional

  Permission to Retain a garage/shed

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2360352

• 19 May 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21508

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 Castletown.

Recorded monuments

• MA118-086 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture. Shown on OS map (1838) as circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). Levelled; no visible surface traces. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 338. Date of upload: 19 December 2013

• MA118-087 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Remains of rectangular tower (7m N-S; 9m E-W), only ground floor surviving, in farmyard with farm buildings adjoining S and N walls. Much of the site is filled with rubble. Garderobe chute on exterior of N wall. Narrow, well-decorated, round headed window cut out of one large stone (H 1.5m) on W wall. Plasterwork on external face of W wall. E wall levelled. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 711. Date of upload: 19 December 2013

Architectural heritage

• White O'Morn, farm house, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1838. Extensively renovated. For sale, 2007. Now in occasional use. Pitched roof with part chicken wire-covered replacement rye straw thatch, exposed hazel or sally lattice stretchers to degraded raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered dwarf chimney stack having stringcourse below capping, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber doors. Set perpendicular to road on a corner site.

• Farm house, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1894. Reroofed, 2005. Pitched roof with part chicken wire-covered replacement rye straw thatch, mesh-covered exposed hazel or sally stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having corbelled stepped stringcourse below capping, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed lintels framing timber panelled doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth with rusticated surround, timber boarded opposing doors, and timber sheeted ceiling in carved timber frame. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to road with cylindrical piers to perimeter having polygonal capping.

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, 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 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.

No address of the register names Castletown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Castletown · Baile an Chaisleáin

Area

630,470 m² (63.05 ha, 155.79 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinchalla, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Neale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Neale electoral division: 879 people in 298 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghafadda, Ballyrourke, Bunavaunish, Cahernagollum, Cahernichole West, Carn, Lawaus, Loughanaganky

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.