Cloonnagashel

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonnagashel, from 1,728 m² to 474,833 m² (47.48 ha, 117.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Cloonnagashel 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.

• 10 Aug 2023N/a

  Sectio 5 Declaration: Installation of solar panels on outhouses

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23442

• 31 Oct 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORK

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17863

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 Cloonnagashel.

Recorded monuments

• MA110-056001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Rectangular, four-storey tower (14.2m NE-SW; 10.2m NW-SE) with base batter, in rich pasture, on grounds of golf course. Portcullis ground-floor doorway at S end of SE wall; lobby (murder hole overhead) inside gives access to main chamber to NW; mural stairs to E leading to l st-floor. Main chamber contains large arched embrasures with blocked up splayed windows; two wall niches present. Mural stairs, lit by two narrow windows and twin light window at top, leads to 1st-floor doorway and spiral stairs in E corner. Doorway to 1st-floor badly damaged; lower part blocked up. Beam slots visible in NW and SE walls; roofed by well-preserved vault. NW wall contains twin light in deep embrasure; to E long mural passage gives access to garderobe; exit chute on NE face at ground-floor level. Fine ogee headed window in NE wall. Doorway in embrasure at S end of SE wall leads to long mural chamber. Spiral stairs, with murder hole overhead at wall walk level; leads to 2nd-floor. In W corner, hole gives access to windowless, secret chamber (L 5m; Wth 1.4m; H 2.3m) in SW wall. Remains of large windows in SE and SW walls. May have been a wall walk overhead. Originally a Burke stonghold, it was captured by Sir Richard Bingham in 1592 while inflicting heavy losses on the Burkes (OSL 1838, 77). 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. 712. Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• MA110-056002 Linear 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.

• MA110-057 Burial
  Description

  Formerly pasture, now in grounds of golf club, 500m NE of castle (MA110-056001-). O’Donovan (1838, 77) refers to a battle at Cloonagashel in 1592, in which Bingham defeated the Burkes and afterwards killed fifteen women, each named Mary Burke. 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. 669. Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• MA110-058 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In good pasture, enclosed by stone field fence. Subcircular area (58m N-S; 62m E-W), enclosed by collapsed stone wall (H 0.6m; Wth 2.2m) WNW to S. Interior heavily overgrown. 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. 269. Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• MA110-079 Burnt mound
  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

• Cloonnagashel House, farm house, 1700–1745 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or five-bay two-storey double-pile farmhouse, extant 1745, on a symmetrical plan with three-bay three-storey rear (south) elevation. Leased, 1790. In alternative use, 1843. Occupied, 1901. Sold, 1907. Vacant, 1911. Sold, 1929. Resold, 1992. Renovated, 2003-5, to accommodate continued alternative use. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting crested terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on box eaves. Roughcast wall to front (north) elevation on rendered plinth with rendered strips to ends; replacement cement rendered surface finish (remainder). Segmental-headed central door opening with drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled door having oversailing fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, reeded engaged colonette mullions bipartite openings, and rendered surrounds framing one-over-one (ground floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) centred on round-headed window opening with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and rendered surrounds framing six-over-six sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling rose; reception room (north-east) retaining carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled reveals or shutters on panelled risers, Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railings below plasterwork cornice to ceiling; reception room (north-west) retaining carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled reveals or shutters on panelled risers, and plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled reveals or shutters to window openings. Set in relandscaped grounds.

• Cloonnagashel House, kiln, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-oven single-stage lime kiln, extant 1894, on a square plan. Now disused. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls with overgrown coping to parapet. Single segmental-headed oven with cut-limestone voussoirs. Set in relandscaped grounds shared with Cloonnagashel House.

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 Cloonnagashel.

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

Name

Cloonnagashel · Cluain na gCaiseal

Area

1,713,069 m² (171.31 ha, 423.31 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinrobe, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Hollymount, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Hollymount electoral division: 867 people in 303 households; 87% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinteeaun, Ballynakillew, Cappacurry, Cloonark, Curraboy, Kiltrone, Robeen

Placenames

Cloonnagashel 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.