Claggan

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Claggan, from 1,670 m² to 548,150 m² (54.81 ha, 135.45 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Claggan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Claggan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Claggan.

Recorded monuments

• MA065-015001 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Situated on a rectangular headland in an area of open sheep grazing on the W coast of Achill Island. The land slopes steeply down to the sheer cliffs along the 'Atlantic Drive' and the promontory fort is overlooked by higher ground to the E. The enclosed area is roughly rectangular and measures 62m N-S (along the bank) by 47m E-W. The interior slopes steeply down to the W and areas of outcrop and random stone settings give the impression of collapsed and grassed over internal features. A low earthen bank runs along the cliff edge at the N and the sea is inaccessible from the interior or from anywhere nearby. The main bank is straight for most of its length except as is nears the northern cliff edge where it turns inwards, possibly following the natural slope of the ground. This bank averages 3m in width along its base, 0.4m high above the interior and 0.40m above the base of the external fosse and has an outer revetment of vertical stone slabs. The shallow fosse is only 0.7m wide and 0.2m below outer field level and in places a 1m wide by 0.2m high counter-scarp bank is visible. At a point some 8m to the E of the bank are the remains of a collapsed and grassed-over drystone oval shaped enclosure measuring internally 7m N-S by 5.4m E-W. There is no clear entrance gap and this possible hut site (MA065-015001-) is nestled into the base of a natural scarp which overlooks the fort from the E. These descriptions are derived from the MA thesis of Markus Casey 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway. Date of upload: 5 December 2018

• MA065-015002 Hut site
  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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Claggan.

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 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 Claggan.

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

Name

Claggan · An Cloigeann

Area

693,092 m² (69.31 ha, 171.27 acres)

Civil parish

Achill, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Dooega, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dooega electoral division: 592 people in 245 households; 74% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 43% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickkildavnet, Carrowgarve, Derreen, Dooega

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Claggan 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.