# Cong South, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Cong, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Conga Theas.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 30,026 m² (3 ha, 7.42 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 290 m²
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): M4 Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Cong, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/cong.md
- Barony: Kilmaine
- Electoral division: Cong, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34845
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151084
- Centre: latitude 53.540183, longitude -9.287337 (WGS 84)

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

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cong South, from 176 m² to 1,383 m²; 0 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1012036: 1,383 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012036.md
- Parcel 895669: 467 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/895669.md
- Parcel 979930: 435 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/979930.md
- Parcel 1012497: 290 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012497.md
- Parcel 938832: 268 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/938832.md
- Parcel 911202: 246 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/911202.md
- Parcel 1011261: 176 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1011261.md

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

- M4 Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area): Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo; 7 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)

5 applications, newest first.

- 5 Feb 2026, Mayo County Council 2628: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. renovation of an existing 4 bedroom dwelling and the addition of a proposed new 3 bedroom house, semi-detached to the existing dwelling (respectively: 136sqm and 120 sqm, a total area of 256sqm) along with associated driveways and landscaping and drainage and a new public footpath to the front of the property. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2628/0
- 17 Jun 2025, Mayo County Council 2560390: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560390/0
- 16 Dec 2021, Mayo County Council 211323: Conditional. Permission. CHANGE OF USE OF PLANNING PERMISSION RELATED TO THREE PROPOSED 3 BED HOUSES PREVIOUSLY GRANTED BY AN BORD PLEANALA (ABP-307229-20) TO ALLOW FOR THE LETTING OF THE HOUSES AS HOLIDAY HOMES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/211323/0
- 6 Feb 2020, Mayo County Council 2066: Refused. Permission. AMENDMENT TO EXISTING PLANNING PERMISSION P18/505- AMENDMENT SEEKS TO CONVERT ONE OF THE 2 HOUSES PREVIOUSLY GRANTED, INTO 2 HOUSES, RESULTING IN A TERRACE OF 3 HOUSES IN TOTAL. THE ELEVATIONS AND THE FOOT PRINT OF THE DEVELOPMENT REMAINS THE SAME AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED BAR THE ALTERATION OF PART OF A FLOOR TO CEILING GLAZING ELEMENT TO INCLUDE A FRONT DOOR. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2066/0
- 5 Jul 2018, Mayo County Council 18505: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLISH EXISTING HOUSE AND SHED AND TO REPLACE SAME WITH 2 HOUSES (SEMI DETACHED) OF 273 SQM AND 112 SQM, ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED DRIVEWAYS AND LANDSCAPING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18505/0

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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 Cong South.

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

- MA120-053: Historic town, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-053----. 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.
- MA120-053001: Religious house - Augustinian canons, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-053001-. On river bank, N of Lough Corrib. Site of early monastery founded in 624. St. Feichin is said to have been Abbot for a time. Church burnt in 1114 and 1137. Turlough O'Connor refounded abbey but destroyed it again in 1203; rebuilding began soon afterwards. Augustinian friars may have been in occupation in the mid 17th century. Later held by Binghams, O'Donnells and finally Brownes (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 166). Many different phases of construction are evident. Greater part of early 13th century church has disappeared; interior used as graveyard. Part of N and S walls and E gable are original chancel (Wth 7.5m N-S) walls; rest is modern reconstruction. Entered through Romanesque doorway in N wall, a later insertion, possibly moved from S wall of church; three light window in E gable; round-arched sedilia in E end of S wall. Doorway in S wall leads to sacristy and small vaulted room in ground-floor of two storey building; modern stairs in sacristy leads to dormitory in upper storey, much of which is destroyed. Door in small room leads to chapter room; E wall levelled; W wall contains string-coursing, above which are several dormitory windows, two of which are transomed and mullioned (17th century date); the others are small flat headed windows. On lower part of W wall are three large doorways and two windows dating to 13th century, most northerly doorway leads to small vaulted room; central doorway leads to chapter room; southerly part of dormitory range is a closed vault of uncertain use. To W is cloister space (30m N-W; 28m E-W), enclosed by several ranges of open cloister arcading; only NE part is original (c. 1200), rest restored in 19th century. Further W is Monks Fishing House (MA120-053007-), built on river bed. This is a national monument (no. 432) in state ownership. 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. 637. Attached images: MA120-053001-_01.JPG E end of abbey church MA120-053001-_02.JPG Nave, interior filled with burials MA120-053001-_03.JPG Chancel, looking E MA120-053001-_04.JPG 12th century doorway in N wall of chancel MA120-053001-_05.JPG Chapter room in the E range MA120-053001-_06.JPG W doorway of chapter room MA120-053001-_07.JPG Detail of W doorway of chapter room MA120-053001-_08.JPG Chapter room window MA120-053001-_09.JPG Doorway to passage/slype, S side of chapter room MA120-053001-_010.JPG Detail of doorway to slype MA120-053001-_011.JPG E range -exterior MA120-053001-_012.JPG Reconstructed portion of cloister arcade Date of upload: 12 December 2014
- MA120-053003: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-053003-. Castle of Edmond of Cong in 1570 (Neary, 1938, 45). Local tradition points to an area, known locally as Tonacashlan beside abbey (MA120-053001-), as being site of castle. No visible surface trace. 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. 688. Date of upload: 12 December 2014
- MA120-053004: Bullaun stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-053004-. Submerged, on river bed, 100m NE of Cong Abbey (MA120-053001-). Five regular bowl-shaped hollows (av. diam. 0.3m; D 0.12m) on upper flat surface of large flagstone (L 2.4m; Wth 0.6m; T 0.4m). 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. 597. Date of upload: 12 December 2014
- MA120-053005: Inscribed stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-053005-. 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.
- MA120-053007: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-053007-. This unusual little building, traditionally known as the ‘Monk’s Fishing House, stands on a stone-built platform directly over the Cong river, c. 90m W of Cong Augustinian abbey (MA120-053001-). It is a rectangular, single-storey gable-ended structure (int. c. 3.45m E–W; c. 2.95m N–S) built of mortared stone, now roofless, with a pointed doorway in the E gable wall. There is a small semicircular fireplace in the W gable wall, with a rectangular chimney above. Flanking the N side of the fireplace is a large rectangular window, and there is also a small pointed window in the N wall; both windows overlook the river. In the stone floor a narrow rectangular hole opens onto the river, perhaps to facilitate fishing activities. The exact date of the building is uncertain, but Leask (1941, 117) suggested that it may have served as a watchhouse for the abbey’s fishing weirs. It is a National Monument in State ownership (no. 432). Attached images: MA120-053007-_01.JPG viewed from N MA120-053007-_02.JPG viewed from N MA120-053007-_03.JPG Doorway in E gable MA120-053007-_04.JPG Interior: fireplace and window in W gable Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye and Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 1 February 2022
- MA120-053010: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-053010-. 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.
- MA120-053014: House - indeterminate date, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-053014-. 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.

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)

- Bridge, 1850–1855, Regional interest, registry number 31216004, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA&regno=31216004. Single-arch road bridge over river, built 1852; extant 1894. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed coursed or snecked limestone walls between drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar battered piers with drag edged rock faced cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having tooled cut-limestone rounded coping. Single round arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Cong River with unkempt banks to river.
- House, 1760–1838, Regional interest, registry number 31216010, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA&regno=31216010. Façade of detached three- or five-bay single-storey house, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan. Sold, 1855. Disused, 1867. In ruins, 1894. "Restored", ----, to accommodate alternative use. Replacement pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed rubble limestone battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with tooled hammered limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with diagonal dragged cut-limestone cruciform mullions, and tooled hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane timber or timber casement windows. Interior retaining timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Cong Abbey.
- Cong Church (Cong), church/chapel, 1810–1815, Regional interest, registry number 31216011, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA&regno=31216011. Detached four- or five-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1811-3, on a rectangular plan with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Closed, 1865. Now in ruins. Roof now missing. Part repointed coursed rubble limestone battered walls with rough hewn limestone flush quoins to corners; coursed rubble limestone walls (tower) with crow stepped battlemented parapet having lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone coping. Pointed-arch window openings with lichen-covered cut-limestone flush sills, and tooled cut-limestone voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Pointed-arch door opening (tower) with cut-limestone step threshold, and dragged cut-limestone surround with no fittings surviving. Roundel (second stage) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone surround. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone sill course, and hammered limestone voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in landscaped grounds with drag edged tooled cut-limestone piers to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron gate.
- House, 1912–1924, Regional interest, registry number 31216012, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA&regno=31216012. Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1924, on a rectangular plan. Pitched slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic, clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having corbelled stepped cornice below capping, timber bargeboards to gables on peardrop-detailed consoles with abbreviated finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered gritdashed roughcast walls on lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on tuck pointed rock faced limestone ashlar base. Square-headed central door opening with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings with gabled canopy framing glazed timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings in tripartite arrangement with lichen-spotted cut-limestone sills, and bull nose-detailed timber surrounds framing timber casement windows having square glazing bars. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (half-dormer attic) with timber sills, and timber surrounds framing timber casement windows having square glazing bars. Street fronted.

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

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Cong South, about 1 in 5 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: 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 South.
- 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/cong-south.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cong-south.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cong-south.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cong South 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)

- Ashford or Cappacorcoge (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/ashford-or-cappacorcoge.md
- Cong North: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cong-north.md
- Strandhill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/strandhill.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.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cong-south
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/cong-south