Cong North

104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cong North, from 6 m² to 2,398 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 2 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 104 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 17 Jun 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of deposition of suitable washed spawning gravel and random boulders sourced locally for Trout and Salmon Fish species in selected locations in the Cong river. This development required the preparation of an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report and Natura Impact Statement

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560390

• 7 Apr 2025Conditional

  I, Andrew McIntyre intend to apply for permission for development at this site at Cong, Cong North, County Mayo. The development will consist of change of use of part of ground floor from use as a former public house to residential use and alterations, extension, refurbishment and part demolitions to an existing house, including a) demolition of existing single storey section to the rear b) alterations c) construction of a new two storey extension and all associated site development and external works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with this application.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560201

• 19 Apr 2024Conditional

  Proposed change of use seeks to change the building from commercial/restaurant to residential/family home

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24120

• 19 Mar 2019Conditional

  ALTERATIONS, EXTENSION, REFURBISHMENT AND PART DEMOLITIONS TO TWO EXISTING HOUSES TO FORM ONE DWELLING INCLUDING A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED, B) ALTERATIONS, AND C) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY EXTENSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND EXTERNAL WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19190

• 2 Jul 2018Conditional

  RETENTION PERMISSION AND AMENDMENT TO EXISTING PLANNING REF NO. P13/227, RETENTION RELATES TO WINDOW AND DOOR LOCATIONS ALONG RIVER VIEW AND 2 SKYLIGHTS TO THE REAR OF MAIN STREET VISIBLE FROM RIVER VIEW. AMENDMENT SOUGHT RELATES TO A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION OF THE REAR OF THE PROPOSAL BY A FURTHER 5 METRES HORIZONTALLY, ALONG RIVER VIEW, AND ALSO VERTICALLY BY APPROXIMATELY 1.6 METRES TO PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL 69SQM OF FLOOR SPACE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18485

• 21 Mar 2018Conditional

  PROVISION OF A NEW SHOPFRONT TO EXISTING PHARMACY AS PART OF GENERAL RENOVATION WORKS AND FORMING A NEW FRONT ENTRANCE DOOR TO A SEPARATE FIRST FLOOR APARTMENT ALSO ELEVATIONAL CHANGES INCLUDING NEW PHARMACY SIGNAGE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18185

• 28 Jul 2017Conditional

  ALTER ELEVATIONS, SIGNAGE AND CAR PARKING LAYOUT TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17605

• 10 Apr 2017Refused

  RETENTION OF WINDOW AND DOOR LOCATIONS ALONG RIVER VIEW AND ALSO AN AMENDMENT TO EXISTING PLANNING PERMISSION NO. P13/227 . THE AMENDMENT SOUGHT RELATES TO A TWO STOREY EXTENSION OF THE REAR OF THE PROPOSAL BY A FURTHER 5 METRES HORIZONTALLY, ALONG RIVER VIEW, AND ALSO VERTICALLY BY APPROXIMATELY 1.6 METRES TO PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL 69SQM OF FLOOR SPACE

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 17260

• 31 Jan 2017Conditional

  CARRY OUT WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 1749

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 Cong North.

Recorded monuments

• MA120-053006 Cross
  Description

  On a traffic island in Cong village. Cross-base (L 0.91m; H 0.41m; Wth 0.77m) rests on modern concentric limestone steps (H 0.54m). A 19th century cross shaft is set into an early medieval cross-base. Base is inscribed in relief and reads in medieval Gaelic OR DO NIAHOL AG (us) DO GILLIBARD O'DUBHTAIGH RAIBIH ABAIDDE AGT CUNGA 'A prayer for Niahol (Nicol) and for Gillebard (Gilbert) O'Dubthaigh (O'Duffy) who were Abbots of Cong'. (Wilde 1872, 175). 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. 631. Date of upload: 12 December 2014

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay four-storey mill with attic, built 1838; dated 1839, on a rectangular plan. Sold, 1871. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on timber construction with clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered cut-limestone coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked limestone walls on battered base with drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners centred on overgrown drag edged cut-limestone oval date stone ("1839"). Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone voussoirs framing remains of timber fittings. Set in overgrown grounds.

• House, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, extant 1894. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack having "Cavetto"-detailed stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, moss-covered coping to gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Roughcast battered walls with rendered strips to ends. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills[?], and rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• House, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, extant 1894. Reroofed. Now disused. One of a pair. Pitched roof with replacement fibre-cement slate, roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack having corbelled stepped stringcourse below capping supporting abbreviated yellow terracotta pot, moss-covered coping to gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills[?], and rendered surrounds (ground floor) framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• Building misc, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding drag edged tooled cut-limestone cross, erected 1930. Set on tooled cut-limestone stepped base.

• Court house, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey courthouse or petty sessions house, dated 1853, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Vacant, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards. Repointed coursed rubble limestone walls originally rendered with tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Pointed-arch central door opening below cut-limestone date stone ("1853") with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement timber boarded door. Lancet flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows having lattice glazing bars. Street fronted retaining drag edged tooled cut-limestone "saddleback" plinth to perimeter with cast-iron railings now missing.

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

At the centre of the townland of Cong North, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cong North.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Cong North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cong North · Conga Thuaidh

Area

46,619 m² (4.66 ha, 11.52 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Cong, the unit of the census

Census 2022

994 people lived in 325 households in the Cong electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashford or Cappacorcoge (Co. Galway), Cong South, Creggaree (Co. Galway), Strandhill

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cong North 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.