Clynish
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeena, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Claínis
- Area
- 32.6 ha
- 80 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 76,616 m² (7.66 ha, 18.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clynish, from 54,340 m² (5.43 ha, 13.43 acres) to 116,811 m² (11.68 ha, 28.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 0 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 Clynish 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
19 May 2025N/a
Section 5 Declaration: 12m high timber pole and 2 no. radio link dishes measuring 0.6m in diameter. Including a dual bay cabinet, 1.2m high wooden post and rail fnce with access gate 1m in width and all ancillary develoment thereto.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25193
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Clew Bay Complex SAC 001482
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clynish.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clynish.
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Clynish.
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clynish.
- 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 Clynish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Clynish · Claínis
- Area
- 325,533 m² (32.55 ha, 80.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeena, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Kilmeena, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmeena electoral division: 1,616 people in 558 households; 88% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Clynish 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.