Clossaghroe
Townland in the civil parish of Ballynahaglish, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Chlasach Rua
- Area
- 113.2 ha
- 280 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 3,184 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clossaghroe, from 61 m² to 134,913 m² (13.49 ha, 33.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Clossaghroe 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Sept 2023N/a
Section 5 declaration: putting old "Roman" style 1m path through site
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23511
2 Mar 2023Conditional
retain dwelling house, domestic garage and all ancillary works at constructred
Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23107
12 Jul 2021Conditional
RENOVATE AND EXTEND EXISTING COTTAGE, CONSTRUCT NEW GARAGE/SHED AND CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED WORKS AS NECESSARY
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21750
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Clossaghroe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clossaghroe.
Architectural heritage
- Foxford Railway Station, building misc, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding single-bay single-stage water tower, commissioned 1868[?]; extant 1895, on a square plan. Decommissioned, 1963. Now disused. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed "pulvinated" ashlar walls supporting overgrown cast-iron water tank. Set in unkempt grounds originally shared with Foxford Railway Station.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_395 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Clossaghroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Clossaghroe · An Chlasach Rua
- Area
- 1,132,291 m² (113.23 ha, 279.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynahaglish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Sraheen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Sraheen electoral division: 1,179 people in 482 households; 82% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellass, Corlummin, Derrynagran, Drummin, Stonehall
- Placenames
- Clossaghroe 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.