# Wherrew, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilbelfad, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Foithriú.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 396,296 m² (39.63 ha, 97.93 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,080 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilbelfad, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilbelfad.md
- Barony: Tirawley
- Electoral division: Ardagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 365 people lived in 131 households in the Ardagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34122
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 153195
- Centre: latitude 54.094733, longitude -9.261612 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Wherrew, from 135 m² to 70,819 m² (7.08 ha, 17.5 acres); 3 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 980775: 70,819 m² (7.08 ha, 17.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980775.md
- Parcel 985474: 42,094 m² (4.21 ha, 10.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985474.md
- Parcel 962025: 40,346 m² (4.03 ha, 9.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962025.md
- Parcel 873320: 32,911 m² (3.29 ha, 8.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873320.md
- Parcel 914913: 25,558 m² (2.56 ha, 6.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/914913.md
- Parcel 874867: 25,448 m² (2.54 ha, 6.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/874867.md
- Parcel 886400: 10,534 m² (1.05 ha, 2.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/886400.md
- Parcel 905803: 7,129 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/905803.md
- Parcel 880369: 5,906 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/880369.md
- Parcel 5009772: 5,017 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5009772.md
- Parcel 882345: 4,870 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/882345.md
- Parcel 890329: 4,144 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890329.md
- Parcel 943689: 4,103 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943689.md
- Parcel 965327: 4,056 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/965327.md
- Parcel 5325619: 3,339 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5325619.md
- Parcel 4543129: 3,079 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4543129.md
- Parcel 5943708: 2,980 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5943708.md
- Parcel 991905: 1,176 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/991905.md
- Parcel 915686: 1,078 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/915686.md
- Parcel 904140: 990 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/904140.md
- Parcel 1009626: 767 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1009626.md
- Parcel 872342: 570 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/872342.md
- Parcel 912461: 555 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/912461.md
- Parcel 914805: 499 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/914805.md
- Parcel 2693059: 348 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693059.md
- Parcel 957938: 135 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/957938.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Wherrew 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.

- 8 Aug 2024, Mayo County Council 2460493: Conditional. Permission. The application will consist of planning permission to (1) Alter and extend existing dwelling house, (2) Retention permission of a temporary mobile home (for the duration of the works only), (3) Upgrade wastewater treatment system, and (4) Carry out all ancillary works on site.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460493/0
- 28 Jul 2020, Mayo County Council 20508: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW FLOCCULATION TANKS, CONSTRUCTION OF A SOLIDS RESIDUALS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (TO INCLUDE BACKWASH SETTLEMENT AND EQUALISATION TANKS, THICKENING TANK AND HOLDING TANK), INSTALLATION OF CHEMICAL STORAGE TANK, INSTALLATION OF KIOSK ENCLOSURE TO HOUSE PUMPS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20508/0
- 3 Aug 2017, Mayo County Council 17625: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS TO DWELLING, RETENTION OF SUNROOM, RETENTION OF DOMESTIC SHED, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/17625/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC, site code 002298, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002298
- Special Protection Area: Lough Conn and Lough Cullin SPA, site code 004228, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004228
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Conn And Lough Cullin, site code 000519

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA038-017: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA038-017----. In pasture, located on a low hill at the landward end of a peninsula, which extends for c. 500m to W into the NE end of Lough Conn. The peninsula is defined on it N side by the mouth of the River Deel, which lies c. 200m to NW of the enclosure, and on it S side by a small bay, c. 150m S of the enclosure. This monument is shown as a roughly circular enclosure on the 1838 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a subcircular area (diam. c. 60m) defined by an earthen bank, which has been boxed into a later rectangular field, with field fences clipping the E, S and W sides of the enclosure. The enclosing bank and the interior are largely engulfed in dense thorn bushes and brambles, making inspection difficult. Where it can be examined, the bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 0.45m at N, 1m at W) appears as a broad, rather degraded earthen rise. It survives in an arc SW–NE, with a later N–S field fence merging with its external face at W. At E it is truncated by a N–S property fence. At SE a short arc of poorly defined scarp appears to continue the original circuit of the bank, and at S the bank is again truncated by, or possibly subsumed into, an E–W property fence which borders a road; a slight kink or curve in the road indicates that it partly respects the curve of the enclosure. The interior appears to be relatively level. Approximately three quarters of it, including the W, N and centre, is obscured by overgrowth. A roughly D-shaped depression (10m NE–SW; 4m NW–SE; D 0.4m) can be discerned abutting the inner face of the bank at W, and another irregular-shaped depression (max. dim. c. 10-12m; D c. 0.4-0.6m) is evident roughly in the centre of the interior. In the SW quadrant, which is largely free of overgrowth, there are two roughly circular heaps of field clearance stones, one at SW (diam. 2m) and one at S (diam. 4m). A subcircular feature/possible enclosure (MA038-017001-) (diam. c. 20m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map within the interior, abutting the bank at SE–S; it is not shown on the 1922 map, and is not now evident at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 July 2019
- MA038-017001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA038-017001-. Located within an enclosure (MA038-017----). On the 1838 OS 6-inch map a circular feature or possible enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is shown within the S half of a large subcircular enclosure (MA038-017----). It is shown abutting or possibly sharing the bank at SE–S of the larger enclosure (diam. c. 60m). The larger enclosure is extant, but there is no surface trace of the smaller possible enclosure. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 July 2019

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 Wherrew.

## 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 Wherrew, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_350, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_350.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/wherrew.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/wherrew.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/wherrew.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Wherrew 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)

- Cloontally: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloontally.md
- Grange: https://everytownland.com/mayo/grange.md
- Knockfree: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockfree.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.

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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.

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