Cong North
Cong North is a townland in the civil parish of Cong, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Conga Thuaidh.
Parcel 4784773
- Area
- 61 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 250 m².
- Zoning
- M4 Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
- Townland
- Cong North
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 9 recorded monuments.
- MA120-053 Historic town
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.
- MA120-053001 Religious house - Augustinian canons
Description
On river bank, N of Lough Corrib. Site of early monastery founded in 624. St. Feichin is said to have been Abbot for a time. Church burnt in 1114 and 1137. Turlough O'Connor refounded abbey but destroyed it again in 1203; rebuilding began soon afterwards. Augustinian friars may have been in occupation in the mid 17th century. Later held by Binghams, O'Donnells and finally Brownes (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 166). Many different phases of construction are evident. Greater part of early 13th century church has disappeared; interior used as graveyard. Part of N and S walls and E gable are original chancel (Wth 7.5m N-S) walls; rest is modern reconstruction. Entered through Romanesque doorway in N wall, a later insertion, possibly moved from S wall of church; three light window in E gable; round-arched sedilia in E end of S wall. Doorway in S wall leads to sacristy and small vaulted room in ground-floor of two storey building; modern stairs in sacristy leads to dormitory in upper storey, much of which is destroyed. Door in small room leads to chapter room; E wall levelled; W wall contains string-coursing, above which are several dormitory windows, two of which are transomed and mullioned (17th century date); the others are small flat headed windows. On lower part of W wall are three large doorways and two windows dating to 13th century, most northerly doorway leads to small vaulted room; central doorway leads to chapter room; southerly part of dormitory range is a closed vault of uncertain use. To W is cloister space (30m N-W; 28m E-W), enclosed by several ranges of open cloister arcading; only NE part is original (c. 1200), rest restored in 19th century. Further W is Monks Fishing House (MA120-053007-), built on river bed. This is a national monument (no. 432) in state ownership. 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. 637. Attached images: MA120-053001-_01.JPG E end of abbey church MA120-053001-_02.JPG Nave, interior filled with burials MA120-053001-_03.JPG Chancel, looking E MA120-053001-_04.JPG 12th century doorway in N wall of chancel MA120-053001-_05.JPG Chapter room in the E range MA120-053001-_06.JPG W doorway of chapter room MA120-053001-_07.JPG Detail of W doorway of chapter room MA120-053001-_08.JPG Chapter room window MA120-053001-_09.JPG Doorway to passage/slype, S side of chapter room MA120-053001-_010.JPG Detail of doorway to slype MA120-053001-_011.JPG E range -exterior MA120-053001-_012.JPG Reconstructed portion of cloister arcade Date of upload: 12 December 2014
- MA120-053003 Castle - unclassified
Description
Castle of Edmond of Cong in 1570 (Neary, 1938, 45). Local tradition points to an area, known locally as Tonacashlan beside abbey (MA120-053001-), as being site of castle. No visible surface trace. 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. 688. Date of upload: 12 December 2014
- MA120-053004 Bullaun stone
Description
Submerged, on river bed, 100m NE of Cong Abbey (MA120-053001-). Five regular bowl-shaped hollows (av. diam. 0.3m; D 0.12m) on upper flat surface of large flagstone (L 2.4m; Wth 0.6m; T 0.4m). 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. 597. Date of upload: 12 December 2014
- MA120-053005 Inscribed stone
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.
- MA120-053006 Cross
Description
On a traffic island in Cong village. Cross-base (L 0.91m; H 0.41m; Wth 0.77m) rests on modern concentric limestone steps (H 0.54m). A 19th century cross shaft is set into an early medieval cross-base. Base is inscribed in relief and reads in medieval Gaelic OR DO NIAHOL AG (us) DO GILLIBARD O'DUBHTAIGH RAIBIH ABAIDDE AGT CUNGA 'A prayer for Niahol (Nicol) and for Gillebard (Gilbert) O'Dubthaigh (O'Duffy) who were Abbots of Cong'. (Wilde 1872, 175). 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. 631. Date of upload: 12 December 2014
- MA120-053007 Building
Description
This unusual little building, traditionally known as the ‘Monk’s Fishing House, stands on a stone-built platform directly over the Cong river, c. 90m W of Cong Augustinian abbey (MA120-053001-). It is a rectangular, single-storey gable-ended structure (int. c. 3.45m E–W; c. 2.95m N–S) built of mortared stone, now roofless, with a pointed doorway in the E gable wall. There is a small semicircular fireplace in the W gable wall, with a rectangular chimney above. Flanking the N side of the fireplace is a large rectangular window, and there is also a small pointed window in the N wall; both windows overlook the river. In the stone floor a narrow rectangular hole opens onto the river, perhaps to facilitate fishing activities. The exact date of the building is uncertain, but Leask (1941, 117) suggested that it may have served as a watchhouse for the abbey’s fishing weirs. It is a National Monument in State ownership (no. 432). Attached images: MA120-053007-_01.JPG viewed from N MA120-053007-_02.JPG viewed from N MA120-053007-_03.JPG Doorway in E gable MA120-053007-_04.JPG Interior: fireplace and window in W gable Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye and Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 1 February 2022
- MA120-053010 Graveyard
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.
- MA120-053014 House - indeterminate date
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
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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
- 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.
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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
- 4.7 ha
- 12 acres
- Land parcels
- 104
- registered freehold, median 211 m²
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cong North, from 6 m² to 2,398 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 2 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 104 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Jun 2025Conditional
The development will consist of deposition of suitable washed spawning gravel and random boulders sourced locally for Trout and Salmon Fish species in selected locations in the Cong river. This development required the preparation of an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report and Natura Impact Statement
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560390
7 Apr 2025Conditional
I, Andrew McIntyre intend to apply for permission for development at this site at Cong, Cong North, County Mayo. The development will consist of change of use of part of ground floor from use as a former public house to residential use and alterations, extension, refurbishment and part demolitions to an existing house, including a) demolition of existing single storey section to the rear b) alterations c) construction of a new two storey extension and all associated site development and external works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with this application.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560201
19 Apr 2024Conditional
Proposed change of use seeks to change the building from commercial/restaurant to residential/family home
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24120
19 Mar 2019Conditional
ALTERATIONS, EXTENSION, REFURBISHMENT AND PART DEMOLITIONS TO TWO EXISTING HOUSES TO FORM ONE DWELLING INCLUDING A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED, B) ALTERATIONS, AND C) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY EXTENSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND EXTERNAL WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19190
2 Jul 2018Conditional
RETENTION PERMISSION AND AMENDMENT TO EXISTING PLANNING REF NO. P13/227, RETENTION RELATES TO WINDOW AND DOOR LOCATIONS ALONG RIVER VIEW AND 2 SKYLIGHTS TO THE REAR OF MAIN STREET VISIBLE FROM RIVER VIEW. AMENDMENT SOUGHT RELATES TO A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION OF THE REAR OF THE PROPOSAL BY A FURTHER 5 METRES HORIZONTALLY, ALONG RIVER VIEW, AND ALSO VERTICALLY BY APPROXIMATELY 1.6 METRES TO PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL 69SQM OF FLOOR SPACE
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18485
21 Mar 2018Conditional
PROVISION OF A NEW SHOPFRONT TO EXISTING PHARMACY AS PART OF GENERAL RENOVATION WORKS AND FORMING A NEW FRONT ENTRANCE DOOR TO A SEPARATE FIRST FLOOR APARTMENT ALSO ELEVATIONAL CHANGES INCLUDING NEW PHARMACY SIGNAGE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18185
28 Jul 2017Conditional
ALTER ELEVATIONS, SIGNAGE AND CAR PARKING LAYOUT TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17605
10 Apr 2017Refused
RETENTION OF WINDOW AND DOOR LOCATIONS ALONG RIVER VIEW AND ALSO AN AMENDMENT TO EXISTING PLANNING PERMISSION NO. P13/227 . THE AMENDMENT SOUGHT RELATES TO A TWO STOREY EXTENSION OF THE REAR OF THE PROPOSAL BY A FURTHER 5 METRES HORIZONTALLY, ALONG RIVER VIEW, AND ALSO VERTICALLY BY APPROXIMATELY 1.6 METRES TO PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL 69SQM OF FLOOR SPACE
Retention · Mayo County Council, 17260
31 Jan 2017Conditional
CARRY OUT WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1749
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 Cong North.
Recorded monuments
- MA120-053006 Cross
Description
On a traffic island in Cong village. Cross-base (L 0.91m; H 0.41m; Wth 0.77m) rests on modern concentric limestone steps (H 0.54m). A 19th century cross shaft is set into an early medieval cross-base. Base is inscribed in relief and reads in medieval Gaelic OR DO NIAHOL AG (us) DO GILLIBARD O'DUBHTAIGH RAIBIH ABAIDDE AGT CUNGA 'A prayer for Niahol (Nicol) and for Gillebard (Gilbert) O'Dubthaigh (O'Duffy) who were Abbots of Cong'. (Wilde 1872, 175). 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. 631. Date of upload: 12 December 2014
Architectural heritage
- Mill (water), 1835–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay four-storey mill with attic, built 1838; dated 1839, on a rectangular plan. Sold, 1871. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on timber construction with clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered cut-limestone coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked limestone walls on battered base with drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners centred on overgrown drag edged cut-limestone oval date stone ("1839"). Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone voussoirs framing remains of timber fittings. Set in overgrown grounds.
- House, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, extant 1894. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack having "Cavetto"-detailed stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, moss-covered coping to gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Roughcast battered walls with rendered strips to ends. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills[?], and rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
- House, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, extant 1894. Reroofed. Now disused. One of a pair. Pitched roof with replacement fibre-cement slate, roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack having corbelled stepped stringcourse below capping supporting abbreviated yellow terracotta pot, moss-covered coping to gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Roughcast battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills[?], and rendered surrounds (ground floor) framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.
- Building misc, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding drag edged tooled cut-limestone cross, erected 1930. Set on tooled cut-limestone stepped base.
- Court house, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey courthouse or petty sessions house, dated 1853, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Vacant, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards. Repointed coursed rubble limestone walls originally rendered with tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Pointed-arch central door opening below cut-limestone date stone ("1853") with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement timber boarded door. Lancet flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows having lattice glazing bars. Street fronted retaining drag edged tooled cut-limestone "saddleback" plinth to perimeter with cast-iron railings now missing.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cong 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cong 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cong North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Cong North · Conga Thuaidh
- Area
- 46,619 m² (4.66 ha, 11.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cong, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Cong, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 994 people lived in 325 households in the Cong electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ashford or Cappacorcoge (Co. Galway), Cong South, Creggaree (Co. Galway), Strandhill
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Cong 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.