Lenarevagh
Lenarevagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Léana Riabhach.
- Area
- 947.6 ha
- 2,341 acres
- Land parcels
- 107
- registered freehold, median 13,352 m² (1.34 ha, 3.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
107 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lenarevagh, from 116 m² to 3,942,354 m² (394.24 ha, 974.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 45 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lenarevagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Apr 2025Conditional
The application will consist of planning permission for the construction of a new domestic garage, construct new effluent treatment system with associated works, Demolish existing shed and to carry out all ancillary works at Lenarevagh, Glenamoy, Ballina, Co Mayo.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560211
4 Apr 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: a concrete base measuring 8.6m x 13.5m on which a fixed sheep handling unit will be installed
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2484
21 Dec 2020Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING SHEDS, CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH STORAGE AND HOBBY AREA TO LOFT, AND CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 201016
13 Sept 2019Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING EXTENSION TO EAST ELEVATION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND BLOCKING UP OF EXISTING FRONT DOOR ENTRANCE TO NORTH ELEVATION OF DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Mayo County Council, 19712
17 May 2017Conditional
NEW EXTENSION, RENOVATIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17376
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: Slieve Fyagh Bog SAC 000542
- Special Area of Conservation: Glenamoy Bog Complex SAC 000500
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Fyagh Bog 000542
Recorded monuments
- MA012-006 Children's burial ground
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.
- MA019-001 Crannog
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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lenarevagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Lenarevagh, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, 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 Lenarevagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lenarevagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Lenarevagh · An Léana Riabhach
- Area
- 9,475,667 m² (947.57 ha, 2,341.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- Barroosky, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 99 people lived in 44 households in the Barroosky electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barroosky, Bellagelly South, Bunalty, Glencullin Upper, Glenturk Beg, Muingingaun, Pollboy, Srahnaplaia
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Lenarevagh 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.