Slaugar
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeena, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Slogar
Parcel 872969
- Area
- 30,961 m² (3.1 ha, 7.65 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Slaugar
Planning applications on this parcel
11 Dec 2025Conditional
retain existing dwelling house and garage along with all necessary site works and ancillaries
Retention · Mayo County Council, 25499
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_214 (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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for 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
- 85.8 ha
- 212 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 4,523 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slaugar, from 124 m² to 183,065 m² (18.31 ha, 45.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1Agriculture
Westport Local Area Plan, Mayo · 6 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
26 Mar 2026Conditional
Alterations and extensions to existing family dwelling house with associated siteworks and landscaping.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660230
11 Dec 2025Conditional
retain existing dwelling house and garage along with all necessary site works and ancillaries
Retention · Mayo County Council, 25499
7 Oct 2024Conditional
construct dwelling house with connection to public sewer along with all necessary site works and ancillaries
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24417
29 Aug 2017Conditional
OUTLINE PERMISSION FOR REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE WITH A DETACHED DWELLING TOGETHER WITH PROPRIEATRY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Outline permission · Mayo County Council, 17695
20 Feb 2017Refused
OUTLINE PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM
Outline permission · Mayo County Council, 1793
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 Slaugar.
Recorded monuments
- MA077-043 Standing 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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Slaugar.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_214 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Slaugar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Slaugar · Slogar
- Area
- 858,491 m² (85.85 ha, 212.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeena, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Kilmeena, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmeena electoral division: 1,616 people in 558 households; 88% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Attireesh, Corratowick, Cranareen, Creggaunnahorna, Derrynanaff, Drumminabo, Gortaroe
- Placenames
- Slaugar 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.