Meermihil
Townland in the civil parish of Oughaval, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo; in Irish Mír Mhichíl
- Area
- 21 ha
- 52 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 976 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meermihil, from 58 m² to 199,267 m² (19.93 ha, 49.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Meermihil 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
5 Nov 2025Conditional
The development will consist of the completion, alterations and extension to the layout of the hotel permitted under planning permission P04/3568, PL 16.213947 and P18/943 consisting of (a) a change from 52 No. single bedrooms to 15 No. single bedrooms with 15 No. 2-bedroom suites and 10 No. 1-bedroom suites, (b) changes to the foyer, bar, lounge, dining room, function room, kitchens, toilets, staff facilities, offices, gymnasium, laundry and all ancillary service spaces and (c) extension for plant room, refuse area, general storage and bicycle storage with all ancillary site works. This Planning Application is accompanies by a Natura Impact Statement.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560784
16 May 2025N/a
The development will consist of the completion, alterations and extension to the layout of the hotel permitted under planning permission P04/3568, PL 16.213947 and P18/943 consisting of (a) a change from 52 No. single bedrooms to 15 No. single bedrooms with 15 No. 2-bedroom suites and 10 No. 1-bedroom suites, (b) changes to the foyer, bar, lounge, dining room, function room, kitchens, toilets, staff facilities, offices, gymnasium, laundry and all ancillary service spaces and (c) extension for plant room, refuse area, general storage and bicycle storage with all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560301
17 Apr 2024Conditional
construct a dwelling house, garage and proprietary effluent treatment system
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24116
29 May 2023Conditional
retain existing classroom and ancillary space portacabin for education and full day care use and all ancillary siteworks and services
Retention · Mayo County Council, 23298
23 Jan 2023Conditional
The installation of approximately 15Km of 250mm OD water Trunk Main, which will extend from a position approximately 1Km from Westport at the junction of Pound Road and the R355 in the townland of Carrownalurgan to Kilsallagh Lower at the road junction between the R355 and the L1826 road to Drummin and the installation of approximately 29.3Km of a mains distribution network to supply water to 473 No Consumers along the route of the Trunk Main and in the area to the Townlands to the West of Croagh Patrick. All associated temporary site development works to gain access including clearance of vegetation, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/ piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing, walls, and hedging; and any other temporary associated and ancillary development works required for the purposes of the proposed watermain, including the installation of stone tracks and temporary watercourse crossings. The watermain pipeline is located within the townlands of Cloghan, Clooneen, Knockfin, Ardoley, Churchfield, Knockaraha East, Knockaraha West, Streamstown, Belclare, Killadangan, Deerpark West, Murrisknaboll, Carrowkeeran, Bellataleen, Carrowkeel, Murrisk Demesne, Meermihil, Glaspatrick, Thornhill, Carrowmacloughlin, Leckanvy, Killsallagh Lower, Killsallagh Upper, Kinknock, Kilgeever, Cuilleen, Mullagh, Cartoor, Glenbaun, Glencally, Furgill, Cregganroe and Boheh in County Mayo.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360016
22 Dec 2022Conditional
2 no. permanent, modular classrooms, consisting of 1 no. c. 15m2 SET classroom and 1 no. c. 70m2 mainstream classroom en-suite, together with all ancillary siteworks and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 221160
14 Jul 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF THE SECOND STOREY EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE, RETENTION OF THE GABLE WINDOWS AND ADDITIONAL WINDOWS TO FRONT ELEVATION; THE RETENTION OF A NEW GARAGE IN LIEU OF ORIGINAL SHED, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22577
26 Nov 2018Conditional
10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT AS FOLLOWS: COMPLETION OF APARTMENTS NO. 8-12 & 14-26, CONSTRUCTION OF APARTMENTS NO. 1-7 & 13 WITH REVISED DESIGN, COMPLETION OF 52 BEDROOMED HOTEL WITH HEALTH SPA, COMPLETION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER DRINKING WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND UNDERGROUND FIREFIGHTING WATER STORAGE TANK, COMPLETION OF ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING ACCESS ROADS, PATHS AND ON-SITE CARPARKING WITH REVISED DESIGN TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS P04/3568 REFERS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18943
15 Jun 2018Conditional
Retain existing classroom and ancillary space portacabin for education use, previously granted on foot of planning permission P06/1688
Retention · Mayo County Council, 18440
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Meermihil.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meermihil.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meermihil.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meermihil.
- 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 Meermihil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Meermihil · Mír Mhichíl
- Area
- 210,225 m² (21.02 ha, 51.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oughaval, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Croaghpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Croaghpatrick electoral division: 699 people in 259 households; 81% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellataleen, Glaspatrick, Lenacraigaboy, Murrisk Demesne
- Placenames
- Meermihil 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.