# Skehanagh Upper, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballintober, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Sceachánach Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 705,871 m² (70.59 ha, 174.42 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 42,721 m² (4.27 ha, 10.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballintober, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/ballintober.md - Barony: Carra - Electoral division: Tawnynagry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 378 people lived in 135 households in the Tawnynagry electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/35949 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152916 - Centre: latitude 53.750796, longitude -9.287321 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skehanagh Upper, from 1,214 m² to 100,257 m² (10.03 ha, 24.77 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 904692: 100,257 m² (10.03 ha, 24.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904692.md - Parcel 929824: 94,154 m² (9.42 ha, 23.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/929824.md - Parcel 900484: 86,910 m² (8.69 ha, 21.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900484.md - Parcel 940350: 83,127 m² (8.31 ha, 20.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/940350.md - Parcel 963648: 60,854 m² (6.09 ha, 15.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/963648.md - Parcel 938676: 46,167 m² (4.62 ha, 11.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/938676.md - Parcel 895396: 46,113 m² (4.61 ha, 11.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895396.md - Parcel 1003039: 42,721 m² (4.27 ha, 10.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003039.md - Parcel 944174: 39,342 m² (3.93 ha, 9.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/944174.md - Parcel 872628: 33,112 m² (3.31 ha, 8.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/872628.md - Parcel 890788: 27,307 m² (2.73 ha, 6.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890788.md - Parcel 946190: 23,586 m² (2.36 ha, 5.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/946190.md - Parcel 965802: 18,192 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/965802.md - Parcel 925460: 1,837 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/925460.md - Parcel 967740: 1,214 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/967740.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Skehanagh Upper in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 15 Oct 2024, Mayo County Council 24426: N/a. Permission. Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/24426/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC, site code 001774, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001774 - Special Protection Area: Lough Carra SPA, site code 004051, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004051 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex, site code 001774 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA099-005: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA099-005----. In pasture on SE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (diam. 39m N-S) on slight height, delimited on NE by fence and road. Bank levelled. Shown on OS map (1838) as circular enclosure. Possibly a ringfort. 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. 392. Date of upload: 22 January 2013 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Skehanagh Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Skehanagh Upper, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Skehanagh Upper. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/skehanagh-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/skehanagh-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/skehanagh-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Skehanagh Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballintober: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballintober-150153.md - Baunoges: https://everytownland.com/mayo/baunoges.md - Carn: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carn-150588.md - Skehahagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/skehahagh.md - Skehanagh Lower: https://everytownland.com/mayo/skehanagh-lower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/skehanagh-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/skehanagh-upper