# Clagnagh, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Bekan, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cloigneach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 394,895 m² (39.49 ha, 97.58 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,899 m² (1.59 ha, 3.93 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Bekan, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/bekan.md
- Barony: Costello
- Electoral division: Ballyhaunis, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballyhaunis electoral division: 3,531 people in 1,219 households; 53% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/36053
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150866
- Centre: latitude 53.763999, longitude -8.750674 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clagnagh, from 1,034 m² to 115,329 m² (11.53 ha, 28.5 acres); 44 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 953018: 115,329 m² (11.53 ha, 28.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953018.md
- Parcel 1003114: 63,556 m² (6.36 ha, 15.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003114.md
- Parcel 900467: 51,304 m² (5.13 ha, 12.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900467.md
- Parcel 937307: 47,602 m² (4.76 ha, 11.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937307.md
- Parcel 984946: 34,235 m² (3.42 ha, 8.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/984946.md
- Parcel 976186: 20,560 m² (2.06 ha, 5.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976186.md
- Parcel 5550653: 15,899 m² (1.59 ha, 3.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5550653.md
- Parcel 962670: 6,940 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962670.md
- Parcel 953019: 4,845 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953019.md
- Parcel 929799: 1,631 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/929799.md
- Parcel 872699: 1,615 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/872699.md
- Parcel 3628719: 1,124 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3628719.md
- Parcel 926618: 1,034 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/926618.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo; 24 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.mayo.ie/getmedia/d6847b84-8c8a-4ee4-bbb4-0360884f207a/VOL-1-Book_2.pdf#page128
- N6 Infrastructure & Utilities (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses): Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.mayo.ie/getmedia/d6847b84-8c8a-4ee4-bbb4-0360884f207a/VOL-1-Book_2.pdf#page128
- R1 New Residential (New/proposed residential): Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.mayo.ie/getmedia/d6847b84-8c8a-4ee4-bbb4-0360884f207a/VOL-1-Book_2.pdf#page128
- C2.1 Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment): Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.mayo.ie/getmedia/d6847b84-8c8a-4ee4-bbb4-0360884f207a/VOL-1-Book_2.pdf#page128
- R4 Strategic Residential Reserver Tier I (Strategic Residential Reserve): Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.mayo.ie/getmedia/d6847b84-8c8a-4ee4-bbb4-0360884f207a/VOL-1-Book_2.pdf#page128
- G5 Recreation & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other): Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.mayo.ie/getmedia/d6847b84-8c8a-4ee4-bbb4-0360884f207a/VOL-1-Book_2.pdf#page128
- P1 Agriculture: Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.mayo.ie/getmedia/d6847b84-8c8a-4ee4-bbb4-0360884f207a/VOL-1-Book_2.pdf#page128

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 11 Sept 2025, Mayo County Council 25387: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a dwelling house together with all ancillary site works and connection to services on this site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/25387/0
- 11 Sept 2025, Mayo County Council 25388: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a dwelling house together with all ancillary site works and connection to services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/25388/0
- 24 Jan 2020, Mayo County Council 2027: Conditional. Retention. RETAIN EXTENSION CONSTRUCTED TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2027/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA093-056: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA093-056----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_864, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_864.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/clagnagh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/clagnagh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/clagnagh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Clagnagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballinphuill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballinphuill-150142.md
- Bunnadober: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bunnadober-150495.md
- Carrowreagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowreagh-150760.md
- Cherryfield: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cherryfield.md
- Devlis: https://everytownland.com/mayo/devlis.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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