Clagnagh

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clagnagh, from 1,034 m² to 115,329 m² (11.53 ha, 28.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6Infrastructure & Utilities (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserver Tier I (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 Sept 2025Conditional

  construct a dwelling house together with all ancillary site works and connection to services on this site

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25387

• 11 Sept 2025Conditional

  construct a dwelling house together with all ancillary site works and connection to services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25388

• 24 Jan 2020Conditional

  RETAIN EXTENSION CONSTRUCTED TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2027

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 Clagnagh.

Recorded monuments

• MA093-056 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on a spur of raised ground projecting to S from an E–W ridge/esker. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; by the time of the 1916 edition the S half of the enclosure has been truncated by the construction of a railway and a railway ballast pit encroaches on the W side of the enclosure. The remains consists of a central, roughly oblong platform (13.3m E–W; c. 15m N–S to railway cutting) defined by a scarp (H 1.2m at W, 1.8m at E), which drops to an enclosing terrace/berm, outside which is second terrace. The platform scarp is well defined at both E and W but at NE–NW it is greatly diminished and at N is almost flush with the outer terrace (Wth 4-5m), which encloses the central platform. The terrace is defined at its outer edge by a steep, pronounced scarp (H c. 2m) which drops to the second enclosing terrace (Wth 2m at E, 2.8m at W). The outer edge of this lower terrace is topped at W–NW by a low sod-covered stony bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.5m). Outside this lies the ballast pit, with an intervening gap of 2-3m, except at NW where the pit truncates the bank. At N–SE the scarp of the lower terrace has been incorporated into a stone-faced field fence (ext. H 1.2m). The railway had already been constructed when the enclosure was visited in the early 1900’s by Knox (1911, 235-237). He noted a raised area to S of the railway cutting which he considered might be part of the enclosure; no trace of this is now evident. Knox called the enclosure ‘The terraced rath’, and suggested that it might have been ‘of the nature of a high mote, a defensive residential work’. This enclosure appears to have been scarped out of the ridge. The narrowness of the central platform is unusual. The original form and function of this enclosure is now uncertain; the railway cutting destroyed possibly a third of its original extent. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 June 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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).

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

Name

Clagnagh · Cloigneach

Area

394,895 m² (39.49 ha, 97.58 acres)

Civil parish

Bekan, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballyhaunis, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinphuill, Bunnadober, Carrowreagh, Cherryfield, Devlis

Placenames

Clagnagh on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.