Skealoghan

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skealoghan, from 75 m² to 136,001 m² (13.6 ha, 33.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Skealoghan 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.

• 18 Apr 2024Conditional

  construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area and domestic garage along with all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24118

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: Skealoghan Turlough SAC 000541
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Skealoghan Turlough 000541

Recorded monuments

• MA118-037001 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture. This enclosure is recorded on the 1929 OS 6-inch map and also in an aerial photograph (BDT 47; SMR file) as a subcircular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a wall. At S-NNW the enclosing wall serves as the townland boundary and is extant. The enclosing wall at N-SSE has been levelled. Earthworks (LS118-037002-), which were visible in the same aerial photograph in the fields surrounding the enclosure, have also been levelled (Lavelle 1994, 55, no. 389). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 November 2013

• MA118-049 Enclosure
  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.

• MA118-050 Enclosure
  Description

  Shown on OS map (1838) as circular enclosure. Levelled; no visible surface traces. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 391. Date of upload: 21 November 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_400 (ZIP).

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

Name

Skealoghan · Scéith Lócháin

Area

1,222,660 m² (122.27 ha, 302.13 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Kilmaine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmaine electoral division: 1,014 people in 375 households; 82% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunacrower, Cahernacreevy, Carrowmore, Cregmore (Browne), Kilquire Lower, Lisheenmanus

Placenames

Skealoghan 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.