Oldhead

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldhead, from 27 m² to 202,565 m² (20.26 ha, 50.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Oldhead 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.

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES, TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 181036

• 30 Nov 2018Conditional

  Demolition of an existing dwelling and the construction of a replacement dwelling, including an ancillary shed, with all associated site works and connection to services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18955

• 25 Oct 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY CABLE LANDING STATION WITH ASSOCIATED FENCING, UNDERGROUND CABLING, PLANT AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18833

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: Oldhead Wood SAC 000532
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Oldhead Wood 000532

Recorded monuments

• MA086-017 Burnt mound
  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.

• MA086-018 Midden
  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

• Oldhead Quay, pier/jetty, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pier, begun 1822; unfinished 1825; completed 1829; "perfect" 1830, on a cranked L-shaped plan with sandstone ashlar battered walls having benchmark-inscribed cut-limestone coping supporting tooled cut-limestone mooring posts. Set extending into Clew Bay.

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 Oldhead, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Oldhead · An Seancheann

Area

1,070,686 m² (107.07 ha, 264.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgeever, and its townlands

Barony

Murrisk

Electoral division

Louisburgh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,117 people lived in 446 households in the Louisburgh electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balloor, Fallduff, Kilgeever, Legan, Moneen

Placenames

Oldhead 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.