Croaghaun West

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croaghaun West, from 5,003 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres) to 4,902,131 m² (490.21 ha, 1,211.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Croaghaun West 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.

• 16 Aug 2023Conditional

  A 10 year permission for the construction of a synchronous condenser facility comprising of a synchronous condenser and flywheel building, control and storage building, external support infrastructure, underground grid connection cabling, electrical components and associated works. A NIS has been prepared in respect of the planning application

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23463

• 7 Feb 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of a 114 Megawatt gas fired peaking power plant (which will be capable of running on a mix of natural gas and hydrogen) comprising the ’electricity generating station’. The electricity generating station will comprise of 2 no. open cycle gas turbine (OCGT) generators each consisting of an air intake filter system, exhaust stack (28 metres high), air vent stack, inter cooler system, turbine control room and transformers. In addition the development will include: • Above Ground Installation (AGI) to facilitate connection to the Gas Network, with compound area of 1,600 m²; • 3 no. Gas AGI buildings; • Admin & welfare block; • Electrical Substation with area of 3,800 m²; • 1 no. Substation building; • Electrical building; • 3 no. Secondary fuel storage tanks with volume of 3,600 m³; • Fire Water Storage Tank & Pumphouse; • Sludge Tank & Pump House; • Resurfacing, Repair and Improvement of Existing Site Entrance; • Replacement Bridge; • Gatehouse; • Internal Access Roads; and • Associated Grid Connection Works within the L52925 Public Roadway. The development will include the provision of 12 no. parking spaces, footpaths, landscaping, fencing and all other associated site development plant and equipment and other works including surface water and foul wastewater drainage infrastructure. The development includes for the demolition and removal of a dwelling (112 m²) and associated farmyard barn and outbuildings (94 m², 15 m², 17 m² and 45 m²), all within a total overall application boundary of 4.35 ha. It should be noted in respect of this planning application that permission is sought for a period of 25 years.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360028

• 30 Jun 2022Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY PROCESS BUILDING OF 13.3M HEIGHT; 16 NO. FIN FAN COOLERS OF 6.9M HEIGHT; HYDROGEN STORAGE AREA WITH AREA OF 4650M2; GAS INJECTION COMPOUND WITH AREA OF 1000M2; 2 NO. GAS AGI BUILDINGS, EACH OF 3M HEIGHT; ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION WITH AREA OF 2407.6M2; 2 NO SUBSTATION BUILDINGS, EACH OF 4M HEIGHT; RAW WATER AND FIRE WATER STORAGE TANK WITH VOLUME OF 879.6M3; PUMP HOUSE OF 5M HEIGHT; WATER ABSTRACTION CHAMBER WITH VOLUME OF 2.9M3; RESURFACING, REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE; REPLACEMENT BRIDGE; INTERNAL ACCESS ROADS AND ASSOCIATED GRID CONNECTION WORKS WITHIN THE L52925 PUBLIC ROADWAY. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL INCLUDE THE PROVISION OF 12 NO. PARKING SPACES, FOOTPATHS, LANDSCAPING, FENCING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT PLANT AND EQUIPMENT AND OTHER WORKS INCLUDING SURFACE WATER AND FOUL WASTEWATER DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN A TOTAL OVERALL APPLICATION BOUNDARY OF 6.51HA

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22502

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 Croaghaun West.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Croaghaun West.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Croaghaun West.

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 10 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Croaghaun West.

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

Name

Croaghaun West · Cruachán Thiar

Area

5,684,107 m² (568.41 ha, 1,404.57 acres)

Civil parish

Moygawnagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Kilfian South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilfian South electoral division: 250 people in 92 households; 79% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corvoderry, Laghtanvack, Moneynierin, Shanvodinnaun, Srahnakilly

Placenames

Croaghaun West 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.