Skehahagh
Skehahagh is a townland in the civil parish of Ballintober, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Sceachánach.
Parcel 899047
- Area
- 2,235 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 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
- Skehahagh
Planning applications on this parcel
15 Oct 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426
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
- 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.
- 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
- 51.7 ha
- 128 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 3,748 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skehahagh, from 169 m² to 127,711 m² (12.77 ha, 31.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Skehahagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Oct 2025Refused
The development will consist of the construction of the construction of an agricultural dry storage shed including all ancillary site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560698
15 Oct 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426
9 Nov 2021Refused
SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING PUBLIC HOUSE INCLUDING BAR, DINING, KITCHEN, TOILET, CIRCULATION, STORAGE, STAFF AND ANCILLARY AREAS; PARTIALLY COVERED EXTERNAL COURTYARD AREA (WITH DINING AND BAR SEATING) TO REAR OF PREMISES; NEW VEHICULAR SITE ACCESS TO SITE WITH NEW CAR PARK AREA TO REAR OF PREMISES; NEW AND RECONFIGURED BOUNDARY TREATMENTS INCLUDING ENCLOSURE OF PRIVATE AMENITY AREA TO EXISTING DWELLING ATTACHED TO PREMISES AND FORMALISED ROADSIDE BOUNDARY; PROVISION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING; USE OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING TO REAR OF PREMISES FOR STORAGE/ANCILLARY USE ASSOCIATED WITH PUBLIC HOUSE; PROVISION OF ASSOCIATED SIGNAGE AND ADVERTISING (TO EXISTING AND PROPOSED FACADES) AND PROVISION OF HARD AND SOFT LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY WORKS AND DEVELOPMENT ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND
Permission · Mayo County Council, 211172
7 May 2021Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P20/147
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21469
28 Feb 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20147
24 Feb 2020Refused
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. UPGRADE OF AN EXISITNG ROADWAY BETWEEN THE LANDS AND THE EXISTING PUBLIC ACCESS ROAD TO THE N84, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND THE PROVISION OF ANCILLARY SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20132
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 Skehahagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Skehahagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Skehahagh.
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 Skehahagh, 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 Skehahagh.
- 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 Skehahagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Skehahagh · An Sceachánach
- Area
- 516,709 m² (51.67 ha, 127.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballintober, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Tawnynagry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 378 people lived in 135 households in the Tawnynagry electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balloor East, Barnakillew, Carn, Cartronbower, Skehanagh Lower, Skehanagh Upper
- Placenames
- Skehahagh 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.