Mallaranny

289 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mallaranny, from 3 m² to 2,256,644 m² (225.66 ha, 557.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 60 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 200 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 19 Jan 2026Conditional

  The development will consist of 1.) the extension and renovation of the existing dwelling 2.) the extension of existing domestic shed together with all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660054

• 16 Jan 2026Conditional

  Alterations and modifications to the previously permitted development under Planning Reference P24/60268 together with all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660050

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  Construction of an external private recreational area for use ancillary to the centre. The area will be located at the front (south) facing elevation of St. Brendan’s High Support Unit Mulranny, Westport, County Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660021

• 13 Aug 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of; a) The construction of 2 No. two & a half storey, stepped, terraced buildings comprising 10 No. own door, one bedroom, ground floor tourist apartments and 10 No. own door, 1.5 storey, two-bedroom duplex tourist apartments above. b) The provision of secure, covered cycle parking at the rear of the proposed tourist accommodation. c) The provision of adjacent car parking facilities comprising 27 No. car parking spaces, associated access ramps, landscaped plaza, pollinator planting area and ancillary site works including drainage, boundary treatments and landscaping. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared as part of the application for approval in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560552

• 30 Jan 2025Conditional

  Permission to make minor elevational changes and modifications to first floor and roof space to a dwellinghouse previously granted planning permission under P11/2870 and P21/454

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560051

• 17 Jan 2025Conditional

  The development will provide for the upgrade of the Mulranny Wastewater Treatment Plant and will comprise of the demolition of existing redundant structures; construction of a new inlet works; construction of new storm water holding tank complete with internal cleaning system, storm return system, access stairs and platform; construction of new sludge holding tank complete with access stairs and platform; construction of new storm feed pumping station; construction of new kiosk enclosure to house electrical control panel; and all ancillary site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560021

• 7 Oct 2024Conditional

  construction of new clubhouse, storage shed and associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24415

• 6 Aug 2024N/a

  construction of new clubhouse, storage shed and associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24335

• 24 May 2024Conditional

  Planning Permission to retain alterations to existing dwelling house including internal attic conversion, car port, domestic shed and to upgrade the existing effluent treatment system to a new tertiary effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2460324

• 2 May 2024Conditional

  Construct an extension and make alterations to existing dwelling house together with all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460268

• 25 Mar 2024Conditional

  Planning Permission for a change of use from holiday home to residential (permanent) dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460168

• 27 Nov 2023Conditional

  Revisions to design of previously approved Arts School comprising removal of machine workshop and hand tooling use and provision of visiting Arts Student accommodation for use ancillary to the Arts School, increasing size of Arts School Studio space and other incidental revisions, together with a c. 10 q. metre Extension to the existing Mulranny Arts School (former Convent) building, external storage spaces, hard and soft landscaping and parking provision to the Arts Centre site and all ancillary siteworks and services at Mulranny Arts School, Mulranny, Westport, Co. Mayo Height of buildings: 7.8 metres high

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360495

• 27 Oct 2023Conditional

  retention of existing dwelling on revised site boundaries and permission for new vehicular access and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23594

• 24 Aug 2023Conditional

  construction of new dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23481

• 21 Aug 2023N/a

  works to include alterations and extension to existing guest house and all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23471

• 26 Jun 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct an annex/ granny flat with connection to associated public services together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360246

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  construct a dwelling house and ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23312

• 4 Apr 2023N/a

  construction of new dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23183

• 12 Dec 2022Conditional

  retain the existing conservatory, kitchen extensions and detached shed together with all ancillary site works

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 221111

• 9 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES TOGETHER WTIH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211175

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN ARTS SCHOOL AND THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTBUILDINGS AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 211006

• 12 Aug 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21860

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  A. RETAIN EXTENSION TO EXISTING ST BRENDANS UNIT PREVIOUS PLANNING REFERENCES P98/444 AND P01/109; B. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSION TO THE WESTERN SIDE OF ST BRENDANS UNIT; C. INTERNAL MATERIAL ALTERATIONS TOGETHER WITH THE PROVISION OF SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21682

• 16 Jun 2021Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING, CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ENTRANCE PORCH AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21646

• 7 May 2021Conditional

  RETENTION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES, PREVIOUS PLANNING P11/2870

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 21454

The 25 most recent of 48 applications.

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: Owenduff/Nephin Complex SAC 000534
• Special Area of Conservation: Clew Bay Complex SAC 001482
• Special Area of Conservation: Corraun Plateau SAC 000485
• Special Protection Area: Owenduff/Nephin Complex SPA 004098
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Owenduff/Nephin Complex 000534
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Corraun Plateau 000485

Recorded monuments

• MA066-002 Midden
  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

• Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch railway bridge over road, opened 1895; extant 1915. Closed, 1934. Reopened, 1936. Closed, 1937. Now disused. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone walls with rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced sandstone ashlar voussoirs centred on drag edged rock faced cut-sandstone keystones. Sited spanning road with unkempt embankments to road.

• Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, church/chapel, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, designed 1904; built 1905-6; dedicated 1906, on a rectangular plan originally six-bay double-height single-cell. Extended, 1931, producing present composition. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Reroofed, ----. Replacement pitched slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed coping to gables including "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed coping to gable to entrance (north) front with drag edged rock faced cut-sandstone battered bellcote to apex framing cast-bronze bell, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging exposed timber rafters retaining some cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast battered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with drag edged rock faced hammered sandstone quoins to corners; roughcast wall to entrance (north) front with segment-topped drag edged rock faced sandstone ashlar clasping buttresses to corners. Round-headed window openings with drag edged rock faced hammered sandstone block-and-start surrounds framing fixed-pane fittings. Round-headed "Trinity Window" (south) with drag edged rock faced hammered sandstone block-and-start surround framing fixed-pane fittings. Round-headed door opening to entrance (north) front with concrete threshold, and drag edged rock faced hammered sandstone block-and-start surround having stepped rebated reveals with hood moulding framing replacement timber boarded double doors having overlight. Round-headed "Trinity Window" (gable), drag edged rock faced hammered sandstone block-and-start surround with hood moulding framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panel. Interior including vestibule (north) with encaustic tiled floor; square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers; full-height interior with timber panelled choir gallery (north) below stained glass "Trinity Window" (----), carpeted central aisle between roll-topped timber pews, timber panelled wainscoting supporting carved timber dado rail, paired Gothic-style timber stations, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (south) reordered, ----, with replacement altar below "Trinity Window", and exposed Hammerbeam roof construction on corbels with timber boarded barrel vaulted ceiling on carved timber cornice. Set in relandscaped grounds with drag edged rock faced sandstone ashlar piers to perimeter having ovoid finial-topped beach stone capping.

• Old Convent Lodge, convent/nunnery, 1930–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey part double-pile convent with half-dormer attic, built 1932, on an L-shaped plan including two-bay single-storey chapel opening into single-bay single-storey flat-roofed apse (east) on a half-octagonal plan. Vacated, 1986. Sold, 1997. Renovated, 2002. For sale, 2012. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; drawing room (west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surround to window opening, "Faience Majolica" tiled cut-veined black marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; bow-ended chapel (east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door, herring bone-pattern timber parquet floor, carved timber dado rail, compartmentalised ceiling on stepped corbels, and stepped dais to sanctuary (east) with square-headed chancel arch; "back hall" or staircase hall (north) retaining staircase on a dog leg plan with timber balustrade supporting timber banister terminating in ball finial-topped timber newels, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors. Set in unkempt landscaped grounds.

• Mallaranny Railway Station, station master's house, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey railway station master's house with half-dormer attic, designed 1895; built 1895-6[?]; occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (three-bay deep) full-height gabled projecting end bay. Closed, 1934. Reopened, 1936. Closed, 1937. In private residential use, 1965. Disused, 2006. For sale, 2007. Dismantled, 2008. Now in ruins. Pitched roof on a T-shaped plan dismantled, 2008, retaining sections of timber construction with red brick Running bond chimney stacks including paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks on chamfered cushion courses on red brick Running bond bases having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, remains of timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and no rainwater goods surviving on dismantled red brick eaves retaining some cast-iron downpipes. Red brick English Garden Wall bond walls with bull nose-detailed red brick quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement to platform (north) elevation with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and red brick voussoirs framing timber pivot fittings having square glazing bars. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and red brick voussoirs framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior in ruins retaining carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in unkempt grounds.

• Mallaranny Railway Station, building misc, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay single-stage water tower, designed 1894; built 1894; extant 1915, on a square plan. Decommissioned, 1934. Recommissioned, 1936. Decommissioned, 1937. Now disused. Red brick English Garden Wall bond walls with bull nose-detailed red brick quoins to corners supporting roundel-detailed cast-iron water tank on red brick English bond corbelled stepped "cornice". Round-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround having bull nose-detailed reveals framing remains of timber door having fanlight. Roundel over with red brick voussoir surround framing louvered timber fitting. Round-headed openings to "cheeks" with cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds having bull nose-detailed reveals framing cast-iron fittings having fanlights. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Mallaranny Railway Station.

• Mallaranny Railway Hotel, hotel, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement hotel with dormer attic, designed 1895; built 1896-7; opened 1897, on a H-shaped plan including single-bay full-height gabled projecting end bays centred on three-bay two-storey gabled central block with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting open porch to ground floor. "Improved", 1900. Damaged, 1922-3. Repaired, 1924. Sold, 1977. Closed, 1990. Derelict, 2002. Sold, 2003. "Restored", 2004-5. Replacement pitched slate roof on a H-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cement rendered central chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, thumbnail beaded red brick header bond coping to gables with pediments to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed exposed timber rafters with cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Replacement roughcast walls with red brick quoins to corners. Series of three round-headed central openings between red brick Running bond piers on red brick Running bond pedestals with red brick block-and-start archivolts centred on red brick keystones. Square-headed central door opening into hotel with slate flagged threshold, and rendered surround with red brick voussoirs framing replacement glazed timber door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with red brick header bond "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" sills, and rendered surrounds with red brick voussoirs framing replacement twelve-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings with red brick header bond "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" sills, and rendered surrounds with red brick voussoirs centred on red brick keystones framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows replacing twelve-over-two (ground floor) or eight-over-two (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber panelled reveals to window openings; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled reveals to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds on an elevated site.

• The Old Thatch, house, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four- or five-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, extant 1838. Renovated, 1990[?], to accommodate occasional use. Replacement pitched Turkish reed thatch roof with chicken wire-covered exposed steel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having blind scallops, and concrete coping to gables with cement rendered chimney stack to apex (west). Limewashed lime rendered battered wall to front (south) elevation; replacement cement rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows. Pair of square-headed door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-doors. Road fronted with gravel verge to front.

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

At the centre of the townland of Mallaranny, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Mallaranny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Mallaranny · An Mhala Raithní

Area

4,438,836 m² (443.88 ha, 1,096.86 acres)

Civil parish

Burrishoole, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Newport West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

799 people lived in 290 households in the Newport West electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cuillaloughaun, Cushlecka, Dooghill, Murrevagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Mallaranny 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.