# Speck, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbeagh, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish Baile na Speice. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 529,517 m² (52.95 ha, 130.85 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 26,817 m² (2.68 ha, 6.63 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbeagh, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilbeagh.md - Barony: Costello - Electoral division: Kilbeagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Kilbeagh electoral division: 1,068 people in 435 households; 73% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/36612 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152935 - Centre: latitude 53.94853, longitude -8.762242 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Speck, from 1,035 m² to 90,035 m² (9 ha, 22.25 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1011952: 90,035 m² (9 ha, 22.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1011952.md - Parcel 941250: 80,308 m² (8.03 ha, 19.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/941250.md - Parcel 946073: 71,360 m² (7.14 ha, 17.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/946073.md - Parcel 962269: 62,369 m² (6.24 ha, 15.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962269.md - Parcel 895031: 61,671 m² (6.17 ha, 15.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895031.md - Parcel 910572: 49,159 m² (4.92 ha, 12.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910572.md - Parcel 991748: 31,001 m² (3.1 ha, 7.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/991748.md - Parcel 2533095: 26,817 m² (2.68 ha, 6.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2533095.md - Parcel 2533104: 25,389 m² (2.54 ha, 6.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2533104.md - Parcel 976590: 11,974 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976590.md - Parcel 925528: 7,741 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/925528.md - Parcel 2533068: 4,142 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2533068.md - Parcel 950118: 3,359 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/950118.md - Parcel 980508: 3,163 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980508.md - Parcel 4867029: 1,035 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4867029.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Speck 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 9 Feb 2026, Mayo County Council 2660101: Conditional. Permission. Construct a proposed new dwelling house, garage, septic tank system and percolation area, complete with all associated works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660101/0 - 20 Dec 2021, Mayo County Council 211346: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/211346/0 - 15 Jul 2020, Mayo County Council 20474: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Construct extension to existing dwelling house and attached garage together with all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20474/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Speck. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Speck. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Speck. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_824, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_824.zip (ZIP). - 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/speck.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/speck.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/speck.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Speck 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) - Cappulcorragh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cappulcorragh.md - Cloonmeen West: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonmeen-west.md - Lecarrow: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lecarrow-152329.md - Puntabeg: https://everytownland.com/mayo/puntabeg.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/speck - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/speck