Inishmaine

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inishmaine, from 43 m² to 234,583 m² (23.46 ha, 57.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Inishmaine 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Inishmaine in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
• Special Protection Area: Lough Mask SPA 004062
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774

Recorded monuments

• MA117-022 Sweathouse
  Description

  In karst with rough grazing, 300m SE is abbey (MA117-024001-). Trapezoidal (5.5m N-S; 5.3m E-W; H 3.2m) mass of rough masonry, with two internal chambers running W to E, accessed from the W through acutely-pointed doorways (Wth 0.7m; H 1.2m). Floors are raised (H 0.2m) above ground level and consist of slightly spaced stone slabs. N chamber (L 3.1m; Wth 0.9m; H 1.5m) and S chamber (L 3.1m; Wth 0.8m; H 1.5m) are both roofed internally by pointed arches. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 680. Date of upload: 6 November 2013

• MA117-023 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.

• MA117-024001 Religious house - Augustinian, of Arrouaise nuns
  Description

  On shore of sheltered bay in Lough Mask; an island in earlier times. Site of an early monastery founded by St. Cormac. Maelísa, son of Turlogh O' Connor, prior of the abbey, died here in 1223. Listed as a cell of Benedictine monks, later a nunnery. Richard de Burgo burnt Inishmaine in 1227 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 318). Early 13th century church with nave and chancel. Entrance to nave through trabeate doorway in N wall, possibly of early christian origin; S wall contains splayed window with portion of arch remaining on E side. Incomplete chancel arch with base and columns containing decorated capitals. E gable contains pair of round headed windows of transitional date, set in widely splayed round arched embrasure with continuous roll moulding and external hood moulding with decorated terminals. On either side of the chancel are to be found a later N and S transept, both with badly damaged doorways; both lighted by simple splayed windows, while a smaller square structure abuts W wall of S transept. NE of the abbey is a gate tower marked 'Castle' [MA117-044----] on OS map (1838). Probably fifteenth century in date. W wall is steeply battered externally. Main chamber with vaulted ceiling had doorway on N leading to stairs. E wall of lst-floor contains fine twin light window but much of the rest of the features are modern reconstructions. This is a national monument (no. 102) in state care. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 639. Date of upload: 6 November 2013

• MA117-024002 Church
  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.

• MA117-024003 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.

• MA117-044 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  NE of the abbey [MA117-024001-] is a gate tower marked 'Castle' on OS map (1838). Probably fifteenth century in date. W wall is steeply battered externally. Main chamber with vaulted ceiling had doorway on N leading to stairs. E wall of 1st-floor contains fine twin light window but much of the rest of the features are modern reconstructions. National Monument no. 102. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 639. Date of upload: 6 November 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Inishmaine.

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Inishmaine · Inis Meáin

Area

1,091,225 m² (109.12 ha, 269.65 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinchalla, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Neale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Neale electoral division: 879 people in 298 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Inishard, Inishcoog, Inishowen

Placenames

Inishmaine 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.