Cuilgar

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuilgar, from 1,077 m² to 47,937 m² (4.79 ha, 11.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Cuilgar 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.

• 10 Jun 2026N/a

  permission for development consisting of 1. The retention of existing stone filling and the retention of existing mobile home. 2. The construction of dwelling house, domestic garage, the installation of proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26132

• 2 Dec 2025Refused

  retention of existing stone filling and the retention of existing mobile home, construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25489

• 22 Oct 2025N/a

  Proposed dwellinghouse, domestic garage proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560742

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cuilgar.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Cuilgar.

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

Name

Cuilgar · An Choill Ghearr

Area

198,237 m² (19.82 ha, 48.99 acres)

Civil parish

Killedan, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Kiltamagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltamagh electoral division: 1,626 people in 691 households; 71% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Canbrack, Derrykinlough, Derrynaned, Tawnagh

Placenames

Cuilgar 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.