Glencullin Lower
Glencullin Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Gleann Chuilinn Íochtarach.
- Area
- 868.2 ha
- 2,145 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 42,019 m² (4.2 ha, 10.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glencullin Lower, from 153 m² to 1,407,452 m² (140.75 ha, 347.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Glencullin Lower 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
7 Nov 2019N/a
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RAISED SOIL POLISHING FILTER. INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORKS/SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19890
17 Sept 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH NEW SITE ACCESS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19725
31 Jul 2019N/a
CONSTRUCT DWELLINGHOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH NEW SITE ACCESS AND ALL ANCILLARY STIE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19596
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Carrowmore Lake Complex SAC 000476
- Special Protection Area: Carrowmore Lake SPA 004052
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrowmore Lake Complex 000476
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glencullin Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glencullin Lower.
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 Glencullin Lower, about 1 in 20 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 Glencullin Lower.
- 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 Glencullin Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Glencullin Lower · Gleann Chuilinn Íochtarach
- Area
- 8,681,696 m² (868.17 ha, 2,145.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- Glenamoy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 209 people lived in 82 households in the Glenamoy electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bangor, Cloontakilla, Glencullin Upper, Glenturk Beg, Lenanadurtaun
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Glencullin Lower 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.