Meeltran
Townland in the civil parish of Aghamore, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish Míoltrán
- Area
- 132 ha
- 326 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 12,301 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meeltran, from 22 m² to 75,108 m² (7.51 ha, 18.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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
No zone of a development plan covers Meeltran 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
22 Jun 2026N/a
Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660487
18 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission to retain:(a)Existing single storey front, side and rear extensions to existing dwelling (b)2 no. extra side windows and alterations to front windows (c)metal roof finish (d) 2 no. stables, hayshed and domestic storage shed including all associated site works
Retention · Mayo County Council, 24389
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: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
- MA081-016 Enclosure
Description
In an area of undulating grassland. The Glore River is c. 160m to E. A circular enclosure (diam. 20-25m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. No visible trace at ground level. A modern house and garden overlies the location. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 December 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meeltran.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meeltran.
- 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 Meeltran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Meeltran · Míoltrán
- Area
- 1,320,006 m² (132 ha, 326.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghamore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Knock North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knock North electoral division: 1,004 people in 422 households; 61% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnagurry, Cloonnahulty, Corhawnagh, Lismaganshion, Shanvaghera
- Placenames
- Meeltran 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.