Gweesalia

210 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gweesalia, from 35 m² to 373,231 m² (37.32 ha, 92.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 82 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 Sept 2026N/a

  Full planning permission for the following: (1) Demolish existing detached dwelling house and shed, (2) Construct replacement detached dwelling house, together with all associated site works at Geesala Td, Belmullet, Co. Mayo, F26D9Y6.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660738

• 19 Aug 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission for development consisting of construction of a new slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works. There will be one building and all effluent will be collected and stored in the proposed slatted tank. The slatted shed will be 6.334m in height and is going to be constructed on land our clients family have been farming for years.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560563

• 24 Mar 2025Conditional

  The retention of the walls, and the reconstruction of the existing public house and all associated site works on revised site boundaries at the above address

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560163

• 17 Dec 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: construction of a new slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24518

• 27 Sept 2023Conditional

  The development shall consist of planning retention permission for an existing structure to be utilised as a domestic garage, all retained upon existing site boundaries, all as presented with the planning retention application documentation.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2360399

• 10 Oct 2022Conditional

  ERECTING AN 18M HIGH MONOPOLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT AND REMOVE A 15M HIGH MONOPOLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22873

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  Demolish existing dwelling house, construct new dwelling house, all ancillary site services associated with this development

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21299

• 12 Mar 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO THE MAIN SEWER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21215

• 4 Mar 2021Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, RETAIN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21179

• 4 Mar 2021Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21183

• 8 Oct 2020Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW A ROOF ELEMENT, DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING FLAT ROOFED FRONT PORCH STRUCTURE. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT FOR AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING PROPERTY, TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER SITE SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PERMISSION

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20745

• 25 Jan 2019Conditional

  AMEND HOUSE PLANS PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED UNDER P17/1037 AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 1936

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING BUILDING AND CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO THE MAIN SEWER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 171037

• 12 May 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DWELLINGHOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17356

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: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex SAC 000470
• Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
• Natural Heritage Area: Tullaghan Bay And Bog NHA 001567
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex 000470

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gweesalia.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Columkille's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height Catholic church, designed 1930; dated 1930; opened 1932, on an E-shaped plan comprising two-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height transepts centred on chancel to crossing (west); single-bay two-storey gabled projecting porches (east). Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan; pitched (gabled) slate roofs (porches), ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables on "Cavetto" kneelers with wrought iron Cross finials to apexes, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered "Cavetto" eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Tudor-headed window openings with concrete sills, timber mullions, and rusticated rendered block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window openings (west) with concrete sills, and rusticated rendered block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Tudor-headed window opening (east) with concrete sill, timber mullion, and rusticated rendered block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Tudor-headed door openings (transepts) with replacement poured concrete ramps, and rusticated rendered surrounds having "Cavetto" reveals framing timber boarded double doors. Lancet window openings (porches) with concrete sills, and rusticated rendered block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Full-height interior open into roof with stained glass "East Window" (2005), central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, Gothic-style timber stations, Tudor-headed arcades on clustered Corinthian colonnette pillars with balustraded galleries (transepts) below stained glass windows (2005), carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary to crossing (west) reordered, ----, with pair of stained glass windows (2005) centred on cut-veined white marble panelled altar, and exposed Tudor-arch braced Hammerbeam timber roof construction on "Cavetto" corbels with wind braced timber boarded ceiling in carved timber frame on carved timber cornice. Street fronted.

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

At the centre of the townland of Gweesalia, about 1 in 10 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 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 Gweesalia.

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.

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

Name

Gweesalia · Gaoth Sáile

Area

4,090,698 m² (409.07 ha, 1,010.83 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Rathhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

695 people lived in 285 households in the Rathhill electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doolough, Dooyork, Tullaghanduff

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gweesalia 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.