Murneen North

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murneen North, from 145 m² to 235,764 m² (23.58 ha, 58.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Murneen North 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.

• 5 Feb 2026Refused

  construction of a new septic tank system and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2622

• 30 Jan 2026Conditional

  retain extension to dwelling house on site together with all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2620

• 12 Nov 2025Conditional

  construction of an extension to existing dwelling house, upgrading existing septic tank and soakaway to proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25467

• 30 Oct 2025N/a

  Extension to existing house , proprietary treatment unit and percolation area.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560763

• 12 Jun 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to retain garage as built all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560373

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  The amalgamation of the PBKS & Derryvoghys GWS's. Consisting of the installation of a 1.7km long, 90mm outside diameter interconnecting pipeline, replacement of circa 0.6km of an existing 3" diameter pipeline with a new 90mm OD section of pipeline, replacement of circa 1.6km of an existing 2" diameter pipeline with a new 63mm OD section of pipeline, replacement of circa 3.7km of an exisitng 2" diameter pipeline with a new 63mm OD section of pipeline. Constructon of a new booster station alongside the proposed interconnecting pipeline. Decommissioning of the replaced section of pipeline within DMA001, 004 & 005 of the Derryvoghy GWS, decommissioning of the existing Derryvoghy source and pumping station, and all associated site development works above and below ground including installation of all necessary valves and chambers. (A NIS will be submitted with the application)

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23132

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  construct extension and alterations to existing dwelling on site as per documents lodged together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23134

• 23 May 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK/FOUL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM ALL AS PER DRAWING DOCUMENTATION SUBMITTED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22387

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A PART TWO-STOREY/PART SINGLE STOREY 155SQM HOUSE AND AN 80SQM GARAGE WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21727

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Murneen North.

Recorded monuments

• MA091-016 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, prominently sited on top of a ridge, overlooking a broad valley to E, and affording extensive views to W where Croagh Patrick is clearly visible on the far horizon. Not indicated on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. Single capstone, tilted to E, resting on an upright orthostat/side stone (long axis E–W), to S of which is a second stone, on a NNE–SSW axis, possibly a displaced side stone or end stone. The SE corner of the capstone tips downwards and appears to rest on a number of small stones protruding from the ground. The tomb is located in a slight dip or depression in the ground surface. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 February 2022

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span railway bridge over lane, extant 1894; opened 1895. Closed, 1975. Now disused. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered abutment walls with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets centred on cast-iron span. Sited spanning lane with unkempt grass embankments to lane.

• Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch railway bridge over road, extant 1894; opened 1895. Closed, 1975. Now disused. Part tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered abutment walls with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with vitrified blue brick header bond voussoirs. Sited spanning road with unkempt embankments to road.

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 Murneen North, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Murneen North.

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

Name

Murneen North · Muirnín Thuaidh

Area

2,972,766 m² (297.28 ha, 734.59 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Murneen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

372 people lived in 149 households in the Murneen electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintaffy, Curneen, Kilcolman, Mace Lower, Murneen South, Tawnaghlahard

Placenames

Murneen North 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.