Keel East
Townland in the civil parish of Achill, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Caol Thoir
- Area
- 667.8 ha
- 1,650 acres
- Land parcels
- 614
- registered freehold, median 1,916 m²
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 39
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
614 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keel East, from 4 m² to 1,150,594 m² (115.06 ha, 284.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 301 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Aug 2026N/a
The development will consist of the following: construction of new mobile home and touring park consisting of: 61no. mobile home pitches; 20no. campervan/touring pitches; site reception/office; communal building; storage shed; toilets shower block; connection to existing services; along with all ancillary site development works including roads, footpaths, lighting, parking, drainage and landscaping/amenity areas. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared as part of this application.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660652
3 Jul 2026Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a detached domestic garage, ancillary to the existing dwelling.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660527
12 Aug 2025Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of a one and half storey dwelling house and detached domestic garage with connection to public sewer and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560548
20 May 2024Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of 3 no. new single-storey extensions to the front of the 3 no. existing properties, refurbishment of the 3 no. existing houses to include proposed new window and door openings, new dormer roof windows, solar panels, bin store, parking and all associated site works, drainage and landscaping.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460309
15 May 2024Conditional
Construction of Dwelling House & Domestic workshop & Demolition of existing dwelling and shed at Keel East
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460300
20 Mar 2024Conditional
demolish existing partially built house and construct new bungalow in its place with connection to public utilities, retain mobile home with connection to public sewer, together with associated site services to include attenuation pond, previous planning ref. P20/466
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2470
8 Feb 2024Conditional
retention of material change of use of housing development for the purposes of short-term letting. The development consists of five detached houses and was originally permitted as a housing development under P04/711
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2425
30 Nov 2023Conditional
The development will consist of the change of use of existing convenience shop to include part off-licence use, gross floor area for off-licence use 12 sq.m, and associated works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360511
18 Sept 2023Conditional
extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house and the alteration to the front elevation with the inclusion of a first floor roof window
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23529
28 Jun 2023Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house with connection to services along with all necessary site works and ancillaries
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23366
13 Jun 2023Conditional
construction of an extension to the front, side and rear of the existing dwelling house with part demolition of existing dwelling along with alterations and modifications to elevations and all necessary site works and ancillaries
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23329
22 Mar 2023Conditional
construction of a new extension to the front and side of the existing dwelling and part demolition of the existing dwelling along with associated alterations and modifications to elevations
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23154
16 Mar 2023Conditional
change of use of existing shop unit to public house and the construction of an extension to accommodate toilets and store together with all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23140
24 Oct 2022Refused
The proposed development consists of the retention of existing storage facility and to include all other ancillary site development works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 22933
26 Sept 2022Refused
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22822
23 Jun 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO ADJOINING PUBLIC SERVICES INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22516
11 May 2022Conditional
CONVERSION OF EXISTING GARAGE GRANTED UNDER P04/1507 TO A HABITABLE DWELLING, AND TO ERECT FRONT PORCH AND SINGLE STOREY SIDE AND REAR EXTENSIONS AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22356
22 Mar 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SELF CONTAINED EXTENSION/GRANNY FLAT TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22233
16 Mar 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS TO BOTH THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22205
22 Feb 2022Conditional
RETAIN ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING HOUSE AND TO RETAIN ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING SHED
Retention · Mayo County Council, 22126
11 Jan 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND THE DEMOLITION OF THE REMAINS OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 225
15 Dec 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH MODIFICATIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING ELEVATIONS, AND THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FLAT ROOFED SECTION OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL NECESSARY WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 211314
29 Nov 2021Conditional
PROVISION OF A PITCHED ROOF REAR EXTENSION WITH ACCOMMODATION AT GROUND AND ATTIC FLOOR, IN PLACE OF EXISTING REAR EXTENSIONS, ALL TO EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE WITH SUNDRY MODIFICATIONS TO SAME AND SUNDRY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 211252
25 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21669
28 Apr 2021Conditional
RETENTION OF EXISTING HOUSE AND VEHICULAR ACCESS ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 21408
The 25 most recent of 39 applications.
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: Achill Head SAC 002268
- Special Area of Conservation: Keel Machair/Menaun Cliffs SAC 001513
- Special Area of Conservation: Croaghaun/Slievemore SAC 001955
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Croaghaun/Slievemore 001955
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Keel Machair/Menaun Cliffs 001513
Recorded monuments
- MA042-020 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Description
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 3 January 2012
- MA042-021001 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Description
We regret that we are unable to provide descriptive details for this record.
- MA042-021002 Megalithic structure
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.
- MA042-021003 Earthwork
Description
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- MA042-021004 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Description
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- MA042-021005 Enclosure
Description
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- MA042-021006 Mound
Description
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- MA042-021007 Stone circle
Description
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- MA042-021008 Cist
Description
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- MA042-021009 Cist
Description
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- MA042-037 Standing stone
Description
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- MA054-008 Cairn - unclassified
Description
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- MA054-010 Enclosure
Description
In a pasture field which is traversed by relict cultivation ridges, on the lower reaches of a SSE facing mountain slope. Not indicated on the 1838 and 19 OS 6-inch maps. Listed in the SMR (1991) and RMP (1997) for Co. Mayo as 'enclosure'. A small enclosure, possibly an animal pen, was noted here in the 1980’s (pers. comm. Theresa McDonald, Achill Archaeological Field School, July 2013 ). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 July 2015
- MA054-012 Road - road/trackway
Description
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- MA054-013 Children's burial ground
Description
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- MA054-014001 Midden
Description
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- MA054-014002 Field system
Description
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- MA054-015001 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Description
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- MA054-015002 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Description
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- MA054-015003 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Description
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- MA054-015004 Cairn - unclassified
Description
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- MA054-015005 Cairn - unclassified
Description
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- MA054-015006 Standing stone
Description
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- MA054-015007 House - indeterminate date
Description
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- MA054-015008 Structure
Description
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Architectural heritage
- Convent of the Sacred Heart, convent/nunnery, 1930–1935 · Regional interest
Description
Detached nine-bay two-storey convent, built 1931-2; opened 1932, on a H-shaped plan with two-bay (four- or five-bay deep) full-height gabled advanced end bays centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. Vacated, 1988. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued alternative use. Pitched slate roof on a H-shaped plan with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks centred on paired rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, concrete or rendered coping to gables with Cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with corbelled stepped sill courses, and concealed dressings framing replacement casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from road in landscaped grounds on an elevated site.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Keel East.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Keel East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Keel East · An Caol Thoir
- Area
- 6,677,913 m² (667.79 ha, 1,650.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Achill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Slievemore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Slievemore electoral division: 968 people in 421 households; 85% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 50% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bal of Dookinelly (Calvy), Bellanasally, Doogort West, Dookinelly (Calvy), Dookinelly (Thulis), Slievemore
- Placenames
- Keel East 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.