Wherrew

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Wherrew, from 135 m² to 70,819 m² (7.08 ha, 17.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 3 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

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.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 Aug 2024Conditional

  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.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460493

• 28 Jul 2020N/a

  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

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20508

• 3 Aug 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS TO DWELLING, RETENTION OF SUNROOM, RETENTION OF DOMESTIC SHED, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17625

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
• Special Protection Area: Lough Conn and Lough Cullin SPA 004228
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Conn And Lough Cullin 000519

Recorded monuments

• MA038-017 Enclosure
  Description

  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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Wherrew.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_350 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Wherrew with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Wherrew · Foithriú

Area

396,296 m² (39.63 ha, 97.93 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbelfad, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Ardagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardagh electoral division: 365 people in 131 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloontally, Grange, Knockfree

Placenames

Wherrew 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.