Cottage

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cottage, from 330 m² to 190,279 m² (19.03 ha, 47.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Cottage 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.

• 18 Sept 2019Conditional

  RETAIN DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FUEL STORE AND THE RETENTION OF A CHANGE OF USE OF AN INTEGRATED GARAGE TO HABITABLE LIVING SPACE INCLUDING THE REPLACEMENT OF GARGE DOORS WITH A WINDOW

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 19730

• 18 Jul 2017Conditional

  RETENTION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY FRONT PORCH AND TWO STOREY REAR EXTENSION TO DWELLING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO DWELLING WITH CONNECTIONS TO SERVICES AND ANCILLARY SITEWORKS AS REQUIRED

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17575

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 Cottage.

Recorded monuments

• MA079-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Monument, 1760–1765 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding rough hewn limestone monument, dated 1761. Set in unkempt grounds on mound with random rubble limestone battered boundary wall to perimeter.

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 Cottage, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_354 (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.

No address of the register names Cottage with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cottage · An Cheathrú Bhán

Area

688,097 m² (68.81 ha, 170.03 acres)

Civil parish

Breaghwy, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Breaghwy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,964 people lived in 608 households in the Breaghwy electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carn, Carrownurlaur, Cloonaghmore, Demesne, Drumaleheen, Hawthornlodge, Pollanaskan, Shanvally

Placenames

Cottage 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.