Mounthenry
Townland in the civil parish of Shrule, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Moin Anraí
- Area
- 94.2 ha
- 233 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 5,670 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mounthenry, from 547 m² to 232,384 m² (23.24 ha, 57.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Mounthenry 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
4 Sept 2026N/a
extending the existing dwelling house to the side and rear including porch to the front on revised site boundaries. The house was previously granted planning under P22/350 which was not carried out except for some internal alterations and gable windows changed under that planning permission
Permission · Mayo County Council, 26213
23 Dec 2025Conditional
Retention permission of dormer roof elevation and layout as constructed to include rooflights. Planning permission is also sought for change of design for existing front porch as previously granted under planning ref. no. P25/60121 along with additional Velux window to front elevation and all associated site works and services
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660026
20 May 2025Conditional
Retention permission sought regarding galvanised roof and galvanised sheeting alteration to rear of existing residential property
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560312
5 Mar 2025Conditional
Planning permission for the construction of a new 2-storey porch extension to existing dwelling, conversion of attic to habitable space to include 2 new first floor dormer windows and new rooflights, permission is also sought for extension to the rear of existing dwelling along with all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560121
14 Apr 2023Conditional
construction of a serviced garage/shed
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360103
30 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211039
15 Apr 2021Conditional
1. Retention of (a) the front elevation of existing dwelling house (b) the location of existing septic tank and percolation area on site (c) the location of existing domestic garage on site; 2. A revised site layout plan showing existing development 'as constructed' on proposed new site boundaries and entrance layout (previous planning ref. no. P 03/2859)
Retention · Mayo County Council, 21351
23 Mar 2021Conditional
Construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and garage/shed
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21258
7 Jan 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A SERVICED DWELLING WITH AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A GARAGE/SHED
Permission · Mayo County Council, 217
1 Oct 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20720
2 Sept 2019Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL STORE WITH ATTIC STORAGE FACILITIES, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, EXISTING ENTRANCE/EXIT GATE AT ITS CURRENT LOCATION AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ALL ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES FROM THE PREVIOUS PLANNING APPLICATION P05/2895
Retention · Mayo County Council, 19682
4 Sept 2017Conditional
EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING NATIONAL SCHOOL
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17710
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: Cloughmoyne SAC 000479
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloughmoyne 000479
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mounthenry.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mounthenry.
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 20 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 Mounthenry.
- 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 Mounthenry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Mounthenry · Moin Anraí
- Area
- 942,400 m² (94.24 ha, 232.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Shrule, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Shrule, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Shrule electoral division: 1,211 people in 419 households; 89% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballisnahyny, Ballycurrin Demesne, Cloghmoyne, Glasvally, Gortbrack, Moyne
- Placenames
- Mounthenry 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.