Keel West

214 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keel West, from 13 m² to 17,102,695 m² (1,710.27 ha, 4,226.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 73 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 28 Feb 2026Refused

  Permission To Construct A Single Storey Dwelling House Together With Connection To All Services Including All Associated Site Development Works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660155

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of 1.) the construction of domestic garage on revised site boundaries to that previously granted under P25/60084, 2.) the omission of garage/ studio previously granted under P25/60084 3.) including all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560669

• 18 Feb 2025Conditional

  The development consists of the retention of minor alterations to the dwelling house as constructed, previously Granted under P16/837 with permission to construct a domestic garage/ studio together with all ancillary site works which will include upgrading the temporary septic tank and percolation area.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560084

• 17 Sept 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a Rear Extension and new front Porch, First Floor Accommodation with alterations to elevations & part Demolitions to Existing Dwelling House

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460581

• 9 May 2024Conditional

  refurbishment and alterations to existing derelict dwelling including modifications to external walls, roof and internal layout with all necessary site and ancillary works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24157

• 11 Mar 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a domestic garage with carport linked to rear of house, granted planning permission under P23/60342 with connection to public sewer and all associated site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460119

• 25 Sept 2023Conditional

  Full planning permission for a proposed extension of existing dwelling house to include all associated site works at Keel West, Dooagh, Achill, Co. Mayo. on behalf of Ciaran & Caroline Halpin.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360394

• 14 Sept 2023Conditional

  The application will consist of Planning Permission for Change of House Design from that previously granted under P 22 / 599, together with associated site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360373

• 31 Aug 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of the demolition of existing dwelling house, and the construction of a replacement dwelling house with connection to public sewer and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360342

• 19 Sept 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING ALONG WITH THE DEMOLITION OF THE REAR FLAT ROOFED SECTIONS AND FRONT PORCH AND THE RE-CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REAR EXTENSION AND NEW FRONT PORCH ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY MODIFICATIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22810

• 21 Jul 2022Conditional

  The development will consist of the demolition of existing dwelling house and outbuilding, and the construction of a new replacement dwelling house and outbuilding, with connection to the public sewer, and all associated site development and external works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22599

• 20 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTON TO PUBLIC SERVICES ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20783

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND TO ERECT A NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20398

• 30 Jan 2020N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF THE EXISTING FISHERMANS SHED TO RETAIL COFFEE OUTLET WITH MODIFICATIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO FRONT ELEVATION AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY WORKS AND ANCILLARIES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2045

• 6 Jun 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING ON SITE PUBLIC SERVICES ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND THE DEMOLITON OF THE EXISTING DWELLING STRUCTURE

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19432

• 4 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC SHED/GARAGE AT THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17959

• 1 Aug 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE WIETH CONNECTION TO ALL NECESSARY PUBLIC SERVICES ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17617

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: Achill Head SAC 002268
• Special Area of Conservation: Croaghaun/Slievemore SAC 001955
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Croaghaun/Slievemore 001955

Recorded monuments

• MA041-002 Settlement cluster
  Description

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• MA041-003 Settlement cluster
  Description

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• MA053-001 Booley hut
  Description

  In rough unenclosed grazing, on the western tip of Achill Island, located on the banks of a stream, flowing through a small steep-sided valley, and overlooked at E by the precipitous rocky slopes of Croaghaun mountain. The stream flow downslope to N to a short accessible stretch of the rocky shore, flanked by cliffs. This cluster of stone-built hut sites constitutes a booley village, used as temporary shelter for herders while cattle were kept on remote upland grazing. The huts occur in a linear cluster on both banks of the stream. The ruined roofless huts are rectangular or oblong in plan, with long axis N-S. Most have rounded corners but at least one has a true rectangular shape with right-angled corners. The walls (Wth c. 0.6m) are of drystone construction using rough stones and and boulders, and survive largely intact to a height of c. 1-1.4m. Two groupings of huts can be seen within the cluster as a whole. To N there is a linear group of nine huts, surviving in relatively good condition, each measuring c. 6-7m N-S by c. 3-4m E-W. The majority have a doorway in the centre of the W wall but one has a doorway in the E wall. Several have the remains of a central E-W partition wall, dividing the hut into two rooms. Most have a small slab-lined recess, or wall cupboard, built into the thickness of the wall. Some of the two-roomed huts have two cupboards, one in each room. Eight of the huts in this group are freestanding but a smaller ninth hut has one wall built against a natural slope. Located c. 40m upslope to S is a second grouping of six or possibly seven huts. They are of similar construction to the N grouping but are located where the course of the stream flows trough a deep gully and most have one wall built against the vertical gully slope. The majority are smaller than the huts of the N grouping, some measuring c. 3-4m N-S by c. 2-2.5m E-W. One of the largest huts in this grouping has a small additional room or possibly another hut appended to its N end. There are two other structures in the settlement. One is a rough hut or shelter, located c. 30m to NE of the N grouping of huts. It utilises a natural rock out-crop on the rising E slope of the valley. A rough stone wall encloses a space (c. 3.5m N-S; c. 2m E-W) against the outcrop, beneath a projecting slab of rock which serves as a natural roof. The second structure is a roughly square, stone-walled enclosure (c. 15m N-S; c. 12m E-W), probably a pound for animals, which is located on the E slope of the valley c. 25m N of the huts. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 July 2015

• MA053-002 Burial
  Description

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• MA053-003001 Cross
  Description

  Set upright in the centre of the flat top of a modern stone-built altar (MA053-003002-). This uninscribed stone slab (H c. 0.42m; max Wth 0.3m; T 0.1m) has a splayed rounded top narrowing to a ‘waist’ from which the stone splays again to a base concealed within the top of the stone altar. This figure of eight shape gives the stone a roughly cross-like appearance. The provenance and date of the stone are unknown. An account of an ‘Altar of the penal days’, consisting of ‘a heap of stones’, which stood at this location in the early 1940’s makes no mention of this slab (O’Kelly 1942, 3). According to local information, the altar in which it is currently set was constructed in the 1960’s. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 January 2017

• MA053-003002 Altar
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in the SE end of a steep-sided, boggy valley overlooking Keem Bay. O’Kelly (1942, 3) recorded this as an ‘Altar of the penal days’, consisting of ‘a heap of stones’ with a large stone with a natural hollow which collected rain water that was used by people to cross themselves. These features are no longer evident. A D-shaped, flat-topped drystone-built structure or ‘altar’ (2.5m NE−SW; 2.2m NW−SE; H 0.95m), built by local people in the 1960’s, now stands on the location. Set upright in the centre of the flat top is a roughly cross-shaped stone slab (MA-53-003001-). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 January 2017

• MA053-003003 Settlement cluster
  Description

  Located in the lower, SE end of a steeply-sloping valley overlooking Keem Bay. A dispersed cluster of c. 40 rectangular buildings or houses is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The houses are spread over an area of c. 240m E−W by 200m N−S, with houses in the N half of the settlement indicated as a series of small linear clusters lining the banks of two branching streams which flow to SE into Keem Bay. A larger cluster of c. 19 houses is located to S of the streams. The settlement is not shown on 1920 OS 6-inch map. There are scant visible remains. The best preserved remains consist of 12-14 rectangular, grass-covered wall footings which correspond to houses in the southern part of the settlement. They can be seen on an area of relatively level elevated ground immediately to NW of the disused early 20th-century coast guard station which now dominates the landscape in this end of the valley. Two of the house foundations have been excavated (09E0302) by Achill Archaeological Field School as part of a research project. One of the houses (designated ‘building 3’ in the excavation reports), located on a subrectangular terrace at ITM 455651 804551, was excavated over two seasons in 2009 and 2015 (Bolger 2009; Rathbone 2015). The excavation revealed a rectangular house (8.75m NW−SE; 4.55m NE−SW), with slightly rounded external corners, defined by the remnants of a drystone-faced wall (Wth 0.9-1m) with an earthen core. There was an entrance gap/doorway in the SW wall. An oval-shaped hearth was located in the NW end of the house, and a stone-lined drain cut across the SE end of the interior, suggesting that the SE end of the house was reserved for the cattle. The excavation clarified that the house was a permanent residence rather than a seasonally-used, booley-type dwelling. A large assemblage of finds, including creamware, pearlware, earthenware, iron objects, and fragments of glass, suggests an early 19th-century date for occupation of the house. The foundations of another, slightly smaller house (designated ‘building 4’ in the excavation report) lie immediately to W. This house was investigated in 2016 in a further season of excavation (under an extension of the same license 09E0302) (Campbell 2016). The excavation revealed that this house had distinctively rounded corners, giving it an oblong plan (c. 8m NW−SE by 4m NE-SW). The walls (Wth 1-1.2m) were of drystone construction, retaining an earth and sod core, with an entrance slightly off-centre in the SW wall. Three different hearths, located in the central part of the house, were used over the period of occupation. An internal drain cut diagonally across the NW third of the house, exiting at the doorway. Ceramic finds, such as creamwares, pearlwares and earthenwares dominated, indicating a late 18th- or early 19th-century date. The settlement may be associated with some of the field walls, banks and cultivation ridges in a field system (MA053-003004-) which encloses this end of the valley. The excavations produced evidence that both houses were deliberately demolished and the walls levelled out. One possibility is that the settlement as a whole was removed as part of land improvement schemes introduced in the 1850’s and 60’s by Captain Boycott, who built a house (MA053-003005-) on an elevated terrace to NW of the settlement. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 January 2017

• MA053-003004 Field system
  Description

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• MA053-003005 House - indeterminate date
  Description

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• MA053-003006 House - indeterminate date
  Description

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• MA053-003007 House - indeterminate date
  Description

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• MA053-003008 Standing stone
  Description

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• MA053-003009 Ogham stone
  Description

  This stone was found in 1958 on the surface of a field some 300m W of the coastguard station at Keem (NMI Finds Register: 1958/126). It is described (Lucas 1960a, 33) as a 'Rectangular slab of stone brought to a point at one end. The surfaces are all considerably weather worn so that the inscription cannot be read with confidence. It appears to have been pecked on one of the broad faces of the stone rather than along an angle. Length 80.5cm; greatest width 36cm; maximum thickness 9cm.' It is now in the National Museum of Ireland (DU018-404----). This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=Keel_West Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 23 September 2016

• MA053-004 House - indeterminate date
  Description

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• MA053-005 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

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• MA054-001 Structure
  Description

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• MA054-002 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  In rough mountainous terrain, situated on a SSE facing slope overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Rectangular house (ext. dims. 4.2m NE-SW; 2.6m NW-SE) outlined by walls of roughly coarsed, drystone masonry (Wall T 0.95m). The NW and NE walls lie immediately below the present level of the peat (max. H 0.8m). Some stone has been robbed from the NNE corner. The SW wall is absent but its outline is still identifiable. Entrance (Wth 0.65m) at SW end of SE wall. The internal area is featureless. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 July 2015

• MA054-024 House - indeterminate date
  Description

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• MA054-025 House - indeterminate date
  Description

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Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1822–1829 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over stream, completed 1829. Sited spanning stream with unkempt embankments to stream.

• Building misc, 1939–1942 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay single-storey flat-roofed lookout post ["LOP"], between 1939-42, on an elongated half-octagonal plan. Now disused. Flat reinforced concrete roof. Rendered mass- or reinforced concrete block walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Set in unkempt grounds on headland.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, high (inferred), moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 West.

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.

• Keel West, Dooagh6 sales

Name

Keel West · An Caol Thiar

Area

18,701,138 m² (1,870.11 ha, 4,621.15 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

Slievemore

Placenames

Keel West 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.