Deelcastle

143 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Deelcastle, from 147 m² to 208,381 m² (20.84 ha, 51.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Deelcastle 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.

• 2 May 2025Conditional

  Consist of the Construction of 1 No. Dwelling House & Garage, Wastewater Treatment System with Soil Polishing Filter. Including all other ancillary site work and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560262

• 21 Aug 2024Conditional

  This development will consist of Permission to construct new detached two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewerage treatment system, percolation area, including all other ancillary site works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460519

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage with effluent treatment system and for all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460233

• 7 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. STANDALONE BUILDING INCORPORATING GYM, MEETING ROOM AND STORAGE AREA. INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 211063

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA, DETACHED GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21388

• 5 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20729

• 5 Aug 2020Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ITS ASSOICATED SERVICES WITHIN THE SITE AREA/BOUNDARIES ALL AS DEFINED WITHIN THE RETENTION APPLICATION DOCUMENTS, TO INCLUDE RETENTION OF ALL OTHER SITE SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS RETENTION PERMISSION AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF ANY OUTSTANDING SITE SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 20545

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• MA030-063 Country house
  Description

  In gently rolling pasture, overlooking the Deel River which lies 100m to W. This house, named ‘Castle Gore’ on the 1930 OS 6-inch map, was built c. 1790 on the Deel Castle estate by James Cuff, who became the first Baron Tirawley, and was a relative of the Gore family through his mother Elizabeth, sister of Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran. The house was built close to the traditional Gore residence at Deel Castle, a tower house (MA030-064001-) and later fortified house (MA030-064002-) located 250m to SW. Following the Williamite War the estate had passed from the Bourkes to the Gores, who leased it to the Cuffs. James Cuff, Baron Tirawley had no legitimate son, and the house was left to his illegitimate son, Colonel James Cuff. Following the latter's death in 1828 ownership of the house reverted to the Gore family. Castle Gore is described in Bence-Jones (1988, 69-70) as follows: ‘a typical late C18 block of 3 storeys over basement. 3 bay entrance front; tripartite doorway with engaged Tuscan columns and pediment extending over door and sidelights. Plain 5 bay garden front. Hall with frieze of delicate late-Georgian plasterwork. Long and narrow staircase hall at back of main hall, lit by a tall round-headed window; also with plasterwork frieze. Drawing room with niches on either side of fireplace. Low service wing; office-court with stone arcade for coaches; barrel-vaulted underground service tunnel, passing beneath the formal garden.’ The house was severely damaged and the original staircase destroyed during the 1798 Rebellion, and in 1922 it was burnt and not rebuilt (ibid. 69). The roofless shell of the building remains. A full architectural description and appraisal (reg. no. 3130300) by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage is also available (blue dot). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 January 2015

• MA030-064001 Castle - tower house
  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.

• MA030-064002 House - fortified house
  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

• Castle Gore, country house, 1785–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (three-bay deep) three-storey over basement country house, built 1789-92, on a symmetrical plan with five-bay full-height rear (west) elevation. Damaged, 1798. Occupied, 1911. Burnt, 1922. In ruins [complete], 1942. In ruins [partial], 1978. Roof now missing with remains of paired limestone ashlar central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on ivy-covered dragged cut-limestone stepped cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls on benchmark-inscribed dragged cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement with steps now missing, cut-granite doorcase with engaged Tuscan columns on stepped plinths supporting "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" pediment on blind frieze centred on dragged cut-limestone panel. Square-headed window openings (basement) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins including (ground floor): central entrance hall retaining decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling on foliate- or vine-detailed frieze. Set in unkempt grounds.

• Castle Gore, walled garden, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1838, on a trapezoidal plan with creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping centred on segmental-headed opposing gateways. Now disused. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Castle Gore.

• Castle Gore, icehouse, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay single-stage icehouse, extant 1838, on a circular plan with single-bay full-height lean-to breakfront. Now disused. Roof now missing. Part ivy-covered rendered coursed rubble limestone walls on battered base. Square-headed door opening with concealed red brick soldier course voussoirs on shallow lintel framing remains of timber fitting. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Castle Gore.

• Castle Gore, bridge, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Five-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (south) elevation on mass-concrete battered bases having lichen-covered pyramidal capping with stone-encrusted rendered rounded coping to parapets. Series of five segmental arches with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Castle Gore spanning Deel River with grass banks to river.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_349 (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.

No address of the register names Deelcastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Deelcastle · Caisleán na Daoile

Area

2,495,231 m² (249.52 ha, 616.59 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Ardagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardagh electoral division: 365 people in 131 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymanagh, Brackloonagh, Carrowcrin, Cloonbrone, Clooneigh, Cloonkee, Drummindoo, Grange, Knockagarravaun, Knockfree

Placenames

Deelcastle 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.