Aghalahard

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghalahard, from 297 m² to 126,244 m² (12.62 ha, 31.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Aghalahard 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.

• 3 Jul 2024Conditional

  Construction of an extension to the northwest side of the existing dwelling house granted under P00/1502. Including all other ancillary site work and services.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460411

• 18 Feb 2021Refused

  CONVERT AND EXTEND AN EXISTING GARAGE INTO A 4 BEDROOM, TWO STOREY HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED LANDSCAPING

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21118

• 22 Jan 2018Conditional

  RETENTION OF EXISTING GARAGE TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE SITE AND THE CLOSING UP OF EXISTING ACCESS TO THE SOUTHEAST INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 1829

• 9 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17447

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 Aghalahard.

Recorded monuments

• MA120-022 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough pasture. Circular area (diam. 35m E-W), enclosed by substantial stone wall (Wth 1.7m; H 1.7m), largely overgrown. Small, blocked up, lintelled gap in the N. Gap (Wth 3m) in NE may have been entrance. 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. 238. Date of upload: 15 October 2014

• MA120-023 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture. Shown on aerial photograph (GSI M 181 -2; Roll 197, pr. 30) as circular enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 39m). Levelled; no visible surface traces. 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. 395. Date of upload: 15 October 2014

• MA120-024 Castle - tower house
  Description

  This tower house is a National Monument in State care (no. 243). Fragmentary remains of rectangular tower (12.8m NW-SE; 9.9m NE-SW), built with ashlar blocks and standing in SW corner of polygonal shaped bawn (MA120-024001-) with square turrets. NW wall stands to three storeys with short returns of NE and SW walls. Only faint outline of SE wall, which may have contained the doorway, survives. Ground floor has broad embrasures with narrow round openings on each of the surviving walls. E corner has remnants of spiral stairs; alcove on NE wall. Ist-floor has window embrasures on NE and NW walls; angle loop in W. Splayed window embrasure on NW wall of second storey, above which are traces of vaulted ceiling. At base of vault, in NE wall, is remains of secret chamber lighted by tiny window on NW wall. Higher up, on exterior of NW wall is perfectly preserved bartizan, and twin ogee-headed window. Upper level of NE wall contains garderobe which emerges at ground-level via two openings. Bawn (MA120-024001-) rebuilt in a number of places, contains three gun loops in an embrasure W of tower house. A later building (int. dims. 11.5m N-S; 5.9m E-W) (MA120-024002-) in SE of bawn has fireplaces in N and S gables. Owned by Mac Donnells in 1574 and held by them until last century, when purchased by Sir Benjamin Guinness (Harbison 1970,168). 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. 703. Date of upload: 15 October 2014

• MA120-024001 Bawn
  Description

  An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District records a ‘polygonal shaped bawn with square turrets’ which encloses a tower house (MA120-024----) in the SW corner and a later building (MA120-024002-) in the SE corner. The bawn ‘rebuilt in a number of places, contains three gun loops in an embrasure W of tower house.’ (Lavelle 1994, 106, no. 703). National Monument no. 243 Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 October 2014

• MA120-024002 Building
  Description

  An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District records ‘a later building (int. dim. 11.5m N-S; 5.9m E-W)’ with fireplaces in the N and S gables, located in the SE of a bawn (MA120-024001-). (Lavelle 1994, 106, no. 703). A ruined tower house (MA120-024----) is located in the SW corner of the bawn. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 October 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Aghalahard, 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 Aghalahard.

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

Name

Aghalahard · Achadh Leathard

Area

562,544 m² (56.25 ha, 139.01 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

Breandrim (Co. Galway), Cregaree, Dringeen Eighter, Dringeen Middle, Drumsheel Lower, Drumsheel Upper, Gortnaclassagh (Co. Galway), Killimor, Knockalassa

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Aghalahard 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.