Clogher

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clogher, from 11 m² to 121,359 m² (12.14 ha, 29.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Clogher 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.

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

• 3 Oct 2022Conditional

  Construction of a new house, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system and connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22857

• 15 Dec 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW HOUSE, GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 211316

• 2 May 2019Conditional

  Construct dwelling house together with all ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19313

• 27 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18290

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 Clogher.

Recorded monuments

• MA100-002 Enclosure
  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

• Clogher House, country house, 1765–1775 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay (three-bay deep) three-storey over part raised basement country house, built 1770; extant 1777, on a symmetrical plan centred on two-bay full-height breakfront; five-bay full-height rear (north) elevation centred on three-bay full-height "bas-relief" breakfront. Damaged, 1839. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1967. Burnt, 1970. Now in ruins. Hipped roof now missing retaining fragments of slate finish with pressed or rolled lead ridges, paired rendered central chimney stacks on axis with ridge having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting crested terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods to front (south) elevation on creeper- or ivy-covered cut-limestone "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice with remains of cast-iron rainwater goods to rear (north) elevation on cut-limestone stepped cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls on lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on fine roughcast base. Round-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement approached by flight of six dragged cut-limestone steps, dragged limestone ashlar doorcase with engaged Doric columns supporting "Cavetto"-detailed pediment on fluted "Dosserets". Square-headed window openings including square-headed window openings to rear (north) elevation centred on round-headed window opening (first floor) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed cut-limestone voussoirs framing concrete block infill with some retaining six-over-three (basement), nine-over-six (ground floor), six-over-six (first floor) or three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows behind arrow head-detailed wrought iron bars. Round-headed central door opening to rear (north) elevation with drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing timber boarded door. Interior in ruins including (basement): groin vaulted cellars. Set in unkempt grounds.

• Clogher House, farmyard complex, 1765–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, extant 1838, including (south): Attached five-bay single-storey coach house-cum-stable outbuilding with half-attic on a symmetrical plan originally detached. Now in ruins. Remains of pitched slate roof on timber construction with no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Lime rendered or roughcast coursed rubble limestone walls with concealed tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central carriageway with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on triple keystone. Camber-headed flanking door openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on triple keystones. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills (ground floor), and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows (ground floor) or louvered timber fittings (half-attic). Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Clogher House.

• Clogher House, walled garden, 1765–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan with coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping. Now disused. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Clogher House.

• Post box, 1939–1955 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, between 1939-55, with "P7T [Posts and Telegraphs]" monogram. Set in roughcast wall.

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 Clogher, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clogher.

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 Clogher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Clogher · An Clochar

Area

1,237,862 m² (123.79 ha, 305.88 acres)

Civil parish

Burriscarra, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Clogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

618 people lived in 213 households in the Clogher electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burriscarra, Carrowkeel, Castleburke, Catfort, Cloonboorhy, Dromore, Glasmansally, Raheenduff

Placenames

Clogher 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.