Garhawnagh

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garhawnagh, from 25 m² to 120,990 m² (12.1 ha, 29.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Garhawnagh 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.

• 12 Jun 2020Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF NEW ENTRANCE, CARPARK AND SET DOWN AREA INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SECURITY FENCING, REPOSITIONING OF EXISTING DIESEL PUMP, UPGRADE EXISTING WEST ELEVATION INCLUDING NEW ENTRANCE DOOR TO STORE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20378

• 7 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT SLATTED ANIMAL HOUSING UNIT , DRY FODDER STORE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 1756

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: Balla Turlough SAC 000463
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Balla Turlough 000463

Recorded monuments

• MA090-026001 Enclosure
  Description

  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.

• MA090-026002 Moated site
  Description

  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Garhawnagh · Gearrthamhnach

Area

737,685 m² (73.77 ha, 182.29 acres)

Civil parish

Balla, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Balla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Balla electoral division: 1,661 people in 631 households; 81% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardboley North, Carrowgarve, Carrownahaun, Pollavaddy, Rathduff

Placenames

Garhawnagh 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.