# Lisgowel, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Breaghwy, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish Lios Gabhail. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 675,728 m² (67.57 ha, 166.98 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,493 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Breaghwy, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/breaghwy.md - Barony: Carra - Electoral division: Breaghwy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,964 people lived in 608 households in the Breaghwy electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/35639 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152407 - Centre: latitude 53.839394, longitude -9.227942 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisgowel, from 812 m² to 110,092 m² (11.01 ha, 27.2 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 888025: 110,092 m² (11.01 ha, 27.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/888025.md - Parcel 890079: 91,855 m² (9.19 ha, 22.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890079.md - Parcel 971865: 53,282 m² (5.33 ha, 13.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/971865.md - Parcel 895205: 46,234 m² (4.62 ha, 11.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895205.md - Parcel 944020: 44,207 m² (4.42 ha, 10.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/944020.md - Parcel 907124: 43,663 m² (4.37 ha, 10.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/907124.md - Parcel 929965: 40,631 m² (4.06 ha, 10.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/929965.md - Parcel 1003363: 38,313 m² (3.83 ha, 9.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003363.md - Parcel 1002526: 34,824 m² (3.48 ha, 8.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1002526.md - Parcel 878595: 29,776 m² (2.98 ha, 7.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/878595.md - Parcel 904437: 27,067 m² (2.71 ha, 6.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904437.md - Parcel 906088: 18,420 m² (1.84 ha, 4.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/906088.md - Parcel 932777: 16,898 m² (1.69 ha, 4.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/932777.md - Parcel 980379: 14,088 m² (1.41 ha, 3.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980379.md - Parcel 969745: 11,669 m² (1.17 ha, 2.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/969745.md - Parcel 4382637: 7,728 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4382637.md - Parcel 910819: 4,413 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910819.md - Parcel 962512: 4,321 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962512.md - Parcel 4953224: 3,630 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4953224.md - Parcel 4704256: 3,539 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4704256.md - Parcel 3630558: 3,538 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3630558.md - Parcel 877439: 3,513 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/877439.md - Parcel 3630591: 3,493 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3630591.md - Parcel 4994557: 3,225 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4994557.md - Parcel 4795467: 2,769 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4795467.md - Parcel 5192604: 2,755 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5192604.md - Parcel 4627762: 2,656 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4627762.md - Parcel 4621135: 2,571 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4621135.md - Parcel 949296: 2,515 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/949296.md - Parcel 880069: 2,193 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/880069.md - Parcel 949521: 2,046 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/949521.md - Parcel 916047: 2,035 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/916047.md - Parcel 918528: 1,818 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/918528.md - Parcel 957889: 1,556 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/957889.md - Parcel 999178: 1,478 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/999178.md - Parcel 999572: 1,473 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/999572.md - Parcel 1001957: 1,286 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1001957.md - Parcel 996602: 1,197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/996602.md - Parcel 1010283: 1,125 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1010283.md - Parcel 912707: 1,113 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/912707.md - Parcel 911686: 1,104 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/911686.md - Parcel 925631: 1,095 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/925631.md - Parcel 989313: 1,067 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/989313.md - Parcel 997394: 1,065 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/997394.md - Parcel 923245: 812 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/923245.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lisgowel in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 22 Mar 2026, Mayo County Council 2660219: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PROPRIETARY TERTIARY LEVEL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SERVICES AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660219/0 - 21 Jul 2025, Mayo County Council 25278: N/a. Permission. Section 5 Declaration: construct a dry store agricultural shed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/25278/0 - 8 Sept 2022, Mayo County Council 22780: Conditional. Permission. WORKS TO REFURBISH THE EXISTING CASTLEBAR-CLOON 110kV OVERHEAD LINE WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY 57KM LONG, AND COMPRISES 252 NO. WOODEN POLESETS AND 40 NO. STEEL ANGLE MASTS BETWEEN THE EXISTING CASTLEBAR 110kV SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF AGHALUSKY, AND THE EXISTING CLOON 110kV SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CLOONASCRAGH, CO. GALWAY. APPROXIMATELY 20KM OF THE EXISTING CIRCUIT IS LOCATED WITHIN THE FUNCTIONAL AREA OF GALWAY COUNTY COUNCIL AND APPROXIMATELY 37KM IN THE FUNCTIONAL AREA OF MAYO COUNTY COUNCIL. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/22780/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lisgowel. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA079-054: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA079-054----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisgowel. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Lisgowel, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_363, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_363.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lisgowel.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lisgowel.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lisgowel.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lisgowel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyshane: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballyshane.md - Carrick Hill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrick-hill.md - Corratanvally: https://everytownland.com/mayo/corratanvally.md - Demesne: https://everytownland.com/mayo/demesne.md - Roemore: https://everytownland.com/mayo/roemore-152796.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lisgowel - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/lisgowel