Inishbiggle

82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inishbiggle, from 782 m² to 146,401 m² (14.64 ha, 36.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 0 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Inishbiggle 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.

• 11 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 12m high stout wooden pole and radio-link dish measuring 600mm in overall diameter. The proposal will include a dual bay cabinet, fibre chamber and underground cable connections

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24425

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Inishbiggle.

Recorded monuments

• MA043-017 Burial ground
  Description

  Situated on top of a low, but prominent, heather-clad hill, affording panoramic views in all directions. This burial ground consists of a rectangular area (22.9m N-S; 20.85m E-W) enclosed by a relatively modern stone wall. The interior ground level is uneven. According to local information, it was used as a burial place of unbaptized babies and of drowned sailors who were washed up on the island. No headstones are visible. There is a dense growth of ferns in the interior. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 October 2018

• MA043-018 Midden
  Description

  Located on the NW side of a narrow inlet, named Clúideog, on the SE side of Inishbiggle Island. This midden was discovered in September 2018 (Pers. comm. Moira Heery and Michael Heery). It is exposed in section in the partly eroded face of a low, shoreline cliff, at a height of c. 0.3m below land surface and c. 1m above the stony shore. It is evident as a dense layer (D 0.2-0.3m) of shells, including cockles, limpets, mussels, and periwinkles. The section face is partly concealed by vegetation, but the midden layer can be traced for a length of c. 2m. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughessy Date of upload: 28 November 2018

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1939–1984 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pole-mounted cast-iron "lamp box" post box, between 1939-84, with "P7T [Posts and Telegraphs]" monogram. Now disused. Set in roughcast boundary wall.

• Holy Trinity Church (Inishbiggle), church/chapel, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height Church of Ireland church, designed 1893; built 1895-6, on a rectangular plan comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay full-height chancel (east). Restored, 2000. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables including concrete coping to gable to entrance (west) front with Cross finial-topped roughcast battered gabled bellcote to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered walls; roughcast surface finish to entrance (west) front on repointed coursed or snecked sandstone base with repointed coursed or snecked sandstone battlemented piers to corners having concrete coping. Lancet window openings with cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings. Lancet "Trinity Window" (east) with cut-sandstone block-and-start surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (west) front with concrete threshold, and cut-sandstone block-and-start surround having concave reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing timber boarded door. Interior including vestibule (west); full-height interior open into roof with central aisle between timber pews, exposed collared timber roof construction on "Cavetto"-detailed wall plates with wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling, timber panelled pulpit on a half-octagonal plan with quatrefoil-perforated timber lectern, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing stepped dais to chancel (east) with cast-iron balusters supporting carved timber communion railing centred on timber altar table below "Trinity Window". Set in landscaped grounds with repointed coursed or snecked sandstone piers to perimeter having chamfered capping supporting flat iron gate.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Inishbiggle.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Inishbiggle · Inis Bigil

Area

2,580,000 m² (258 ha, 637.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Achill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

798 people lived in 345 households in the Achill electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Inishbiggle 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.