Demesne

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Demesne, from 16 m² to 154,179 m² (15.42 ha, 38.1 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.

• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 26 Aug 2026N/a

  retention permission for the existing domestic garage as constructed and associated site works

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 26203

• 19 Jun 2026Conditional

  Planning Permission for a new free-standing sign at the entrance to the club including all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660479

• 17 Jun 2026N/a

  Planning Permission for a new free-standing sign at the entrance to the club including all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660470

• 18 Dec 2025Conditional

  Full Planning Permission for the installation of 3 no. modular, portable Padel tennis courts, complete with artificial grass surface, 4m high fencing around sections of the Padel courts perimeter and 6m high integrated LED lighting and all other ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660012

• 21 Jul 2025N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: construct a dry store agricultural shed

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25278

• 7 Jul 2025Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, together with all ancillary site works including connection to public sewer and water mains

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25270

• 13 May 2025N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: provide accommodation for displaced internal protection applicants

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25179

• 12 Dec 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration; provide accommodatoin units for displaced International Protection Applicnats on behalf of DCEDIY with the Breaffy Sports Arean/Woods Hotel

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24515

• 22 Sept 2023Conditional

  installation of the football pitch flood lighting system, consisting of 4 no. 18m high columns with lighting array, and the upgrading of the walkway lighting surrounding the pitch, together with ancillary site development works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23538

• 8 Sept 2022Conditional

  WORKS TO REFURBISH THE EXISTING CASTLEBAR-CLOON 110kV OVERHEAD LINE WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY 57KM LONG, AND COMPRISES 252 NO. WOODEN POLESETS AND 40 NO. STEEL ANGLE MASTS BETWEEN THE EXISTING CASTLEBAR 110kV SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF AGHALUSKY, AND THE EXISTING CLOON 110kV SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CLOONASCRAGH, CO. GALWAY. APPROXIMATELY 20KM OF THE EXISTING CIRCUIT IS LOCATED WITHIN THE FUNCTIONAL AREA OF GALWAY COUNTY COUNCIL AND APPROXIMATELY 37KM IN THE FUNCTIONAL AREA OF MAYO COUNTY COUNCIL

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22780

• 4 Apr 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A HOUSIING DEVELOPMENT OF 32 NO. DETACHED DWELLINGS (9 NO. SINGLE STOREY BUNGALOWS, 6 NO. DORMER/STOREY AND A HALF AND 17 NO. TWO STOREY HOUSE TYPES); PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR ACCESS TO COTTAGE ROAD, AND PEDESTRIAN/CYCLE ACCESS TO BREAFFY HOUSE RESORT; CONNECTION TO WATER SUPPLY AND WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF A WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AND RISING MAIN TO CONNECT TO EXISTING NETWORK IN THE AREA; ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT AND WORKS INCLUDING SURFACE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE (COLLECTION, ATTENUATION AND GROUND INFILTRATION), CULVERTING OF EXISTING STREAM, HARD AND SOFT LANDSCAPING, ROADS AND FOOTPATHS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AMENITY AND OPEN SPACES, CAR PARKING, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, PUBLIC LIGHTING AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORKS ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22271

• 7 Mar 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT OF 11 NO. TWO STOREY DETACHED DWELLINGS (INCLUDING 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE); PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR ACCESS TO BREAFFY ROAD (VIA EXISTING BREAFFY HOUSE RESORT ACCESS NETWORK) ; CONNECTION TO WATER SUPPLY AND WASTE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF A WASTE WATER PUMPING STATION AND RISING MAIN TO CONNECT TO EXISTING NETWORK IN THE AREA; AND ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT AND WORKS INCLUDING SURFACE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE (COLLECTION, ATTENUATION AND GROUND INFILTRATION), HARD AND SOFT LANDSCAPING, ROADS AND FOOTPATHS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AMENITY AND OPEN SPACES, CAR PARKING, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, PUBLIC LIGHTING AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORKS ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22184

• 3 Mar 2020N/a

  A 24.1M MULTI-USER MONOPOLE CARRYING TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT INCLUDING ANTENNAS, RRUS AND DISHES, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED EXCHANGE CABINETS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVLEOPMNET WORKS.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20153

• 28 Feb 2020Conditional

  PROPOSED CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING 3 STOREY OVER PART BASEMENT HOTEL (AT BASEMENT, GROUND, FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR LEVEL) TO A 90 BEDROOM 3 STOREY OVER PART BASEMENT NURSING HOME (AT BASEMENT, GROUND, FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR LEVEL). PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO INCLUDE ALL ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION TO THE NURSING HOME, INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO INCLUDE MODIFICATIONS TO THE EXISTING STAIR CORES TO THE FRONT AND REAR ELEVATIONS, AND TO ERECT A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR ELEVATION AT FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR LEVEL TO INCLUDE A SLUICE ROOM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO INCLUDE MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING CAR PARKING LAYOUT, PROPOSED SIGNAGE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20143

• 6 Dec 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18978

• 7 Jul 2017N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF APARTMENTS 409 & 410 FROM OVERNIGHT GUEST ACCOMMODATION USE TO LONG TERM RESIDENTIAL USE AS PERMANENT HABITABLE UNITS AS REFERRED TO IN CONDITION NO. 3 OF P01/1797

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17538

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 Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• MA079-034001 Church
  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.

• MA079-034002 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.

• MA079-034003 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.

• MA079-034004 Burial
  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

• Breaghwy Lodge, country house, 1885–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Description Withheld

• Breaghwy Lodge, bridge, 1840–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over stream, extant 1895. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed tooled sandstone ashlar walls with drag edged tooled cut-sandstone "saddleback" coping to parapets. Single elliptical arch with tooled sandstone ashlar voussoirs. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Breaghwy Lodge spanning stream with shrub-covered banks to stream.

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 Demesne, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_363 (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 Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Demesne · An Diméin

Area

1,160,500 m² (116.05 ha, 286.77 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

Ballyshane, Breaghwy, Carrick Hill, Carrownurlaur, Cottage, Knocknageehy, Lisgowel, Pollanaskan, Roemore

Placenames

Demesne 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.