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Glencastle

Glencastle is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Gleann Chaisil.

Area
948.2 ha
2,343 acres
Land parcels
66
registered freehold, median 26,097 m² (2.61 ha, 6.45 acres)
Zoning
—
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
5
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

GlencastleFauleensLoughnahellyMuingmoreCarrowkeelEderglenCrinnishTristiaBunnahowenAltSrah
1,000 m
83 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glencastle, from 58 m² to 2,373,559 m² (237.36 ha, 586.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

No zone of a development plan covers Glencastle 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.

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

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

Nature and heritage

Designated sites and recorded monuments

Designated sites

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

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).

Ground and risks

Radon, landslides, flooding

Radon
At the centre of the townland of Glencastle, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
Terrain model
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glencastle.
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.

Homes sold

Property Price Register

No address of the register names Glencastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

The townland

Name
Glencastle · Gleann Chaisil
Area
9,482,351 m² (948.24 ha, 2,343.14 acres)
Civil parish
Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
Barony
Erris
Electoral division
Glencastle, the unit of the census
Census 2022
499 people lived in 194 households in the Glencastle electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Alt, Carrowkeel, Crinnish, Ederglen, Fauleens, Loughnahelly, Muingmore, Muings, Tristia
Gaeltacht
In an Irish-speaking area
Placenames
Glencastle 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.