Mweewillin

120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mweewillin, from 20 m² to 122,731 m² (12.27 ha, 30.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Mweewillin 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.

• 10 Jul 2026N/a

  Construction of a dwelling house and retention of site works including site entrance

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660562

• 16 Sept 2025Refused

  Construction of a dwelling house

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560638

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  construction of new dwelling house with wastewater treatment system along with all necessary site works and ancillaries

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23316

• 21 Sept 2018Refused

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING RUINS AND CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18719

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: Corraun Plateau SAC 000485
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Corraun Plateau 000485

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mweewillin.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mweewillin, 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 Mweewillin.

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 Mweewillin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Mweewillin · Maigh Mhuilinn

Area

5,193,922 m² (519.39 ha, 1,283.45 acres)

Civil parish

Achill, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Corraun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

712 people lived in 279 households in the Corraun electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belfarsad, Bolinglanna, Bunanioo

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Mweewillin 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.