Mweelin

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mweelin, from 146 m² to 4,001,046 m² (400.1 ha, 988.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Mweelin 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.

• 31 Jul 2023Conditional

  refurbishment of the exisitng derelict dwelling house with part demolition and alterations of existing structure and the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear/side of the existing structure along with alterations and modifications to the existing elevations with upgrade of existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23437

• 27 Jan 2023Conditional

  construction of a detached domestic garage and workshop to the side of the existing dwelling house along with all necessary site works and ancillaries

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2331

• 14 Apr 2022Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22296

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: Keel Machair/Menaun Cliffs SAC 001513
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Keel Machair/Menaun Cliffs 001513

Recorded monuments

• MA054-023 Ringfort - cashel
  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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mweelin.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Mweelin · An Mhaoilinn

Area

5,831,230 m² (583.12 ha, 1,440.93 acres)

Civil parish

Achill, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Dooega, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dooega electoral division: 592 people in 245 households; 74% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 43% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel, Dooega, Dookinelly (Calvy), Dookinelly (Thulis), Maumnaman

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Mweelin 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.