Cahernablauhy
Cahernablauhy is a townland in the civil parish of Ballinrobe, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Cathair na Bláiche.
Parcel 2845875
- Area
- 15,205 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 145 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cahernablauhy
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 61.8 ha
- 153 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 4,349 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernablauhy, from 16 m² to 50,317 m² (5.03 ha, 12.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cahernablauhy 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Jun 2026Conditional
The development consists of the retention of the house & garage as built and includes (1) front porch (5.57m2), (2) sunroom (11.17m2), (3) additional bay windows (3.6m2), (4) rear sitting room (22.49m2), (5) conversion of open car port to games room (23.76m2), (6) extension of first floor dormer bedrooms (18.54m2), (7) conversion of second floor attic into additional bedrooms (49.3m2), (8) garage with loft storage area (116.2m2).
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660463
27 Feb 2026Conditional
agriculture cattle shed and all associated works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2644
28 Nov 2025Conditional
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, 25484
20 Apr 2021Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary sewage treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21370
1 Apr 2021Conditional
Agriculture cattle shed and all associated works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21296
25 Nov 2019Conditional
RETAIN DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED AND MINOR ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER P94/1351 AND P97/1491 ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 19934
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cahernablauhy.
Recorded monuments
- MA118-067 Enclosure
Description
In undulating pasture, on high ground. Circular area (36m N-S; 38m E-W), defined by earthen bank (H 0.55m), topped with stone. Bank levelled W to N and greatly disturbed E to S. Possible hut sites in the interior. 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. 121. Date of upload: 3 December 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cahernablauhy.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_370 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cahernablauhy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Cahernablauhy · Cathair na Bláiche
- Area
- 617,559 m² (61.76 ha, 152.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinrobe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Neale, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 879 people lived in 298 households in the Neale electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballytrasna, Cahercroobeen, Cahernamallaght, Carrowkeel, Cavan, Cregduff, Curraboy (Kilmaine), Knockroe
- Placenames
- Cahernablauhy 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.