CSO Backdrop
CSO market backdrop
Broader CSO market context for house prices, earnings, and consumer price inflation.
House price momentum
6.5%
12-month national RPPI change
Average weekly earnings
€1075
+4.4% year-on-year
Consumer price inflation
2.8%
12-month all-items CPI change
Regional comparison
West
266.8
National RPPI
6.5%
Dublin RPPI
5.7%
Ex-Dublin RPPI
7.2%
Source: CSO Residential Property Price Index (HPM09), CSO Earnings series (EHQ03), and CSO Consumer Price Index (CPM01).
National and broad regional context only. Not a valuation, forecast, or personal affordability assessment.
Environmental Context
Environmental and site context
Public environmental context is shown around the Castlebar market-centre anchor point.
Flood context: Low
Land-use context: Residential
Urban density: Medium
Green score: 20
These overlays show matched public dataset polygons at the market-centre anchor. They are context only and are not a property-level environmental search.
Land-use context
Residential
Where available, this section uses public Copernicus context layers.
Context only. Not a survey, not a flood certificate, and not property-specific environmental advice.
Trend
Time-series trend
Rolling monthly activity and rolling monthly median, using recent public transaction evidence from this market centre.
Last month
0
Previous month
0
Same month last year
133
Blue bars show monthly transaction counts. Green bars show the rolling monthly median where enough public transaction evidence exists.
Distribution
Price distribution
Distribution of recent recorded sale prices in this market centre. This is market evidence, not a valuation.
The bins above are based on recent public transaction evidence. They do not estimate the value of a specific property.
Recent Sales Evidence
Recent PPR sales
Recent sales evidence from the Property Price Register in this market centre.
Affordability
Affordability context
Recent public transaction evidence places the rolling market-centre midpoint at €251,500.
This is market context only. It does not account for your deposit, income, debts, lender criteria, or mortgage approval.
Not mortgage advice. Not a lending decision. Use Property Check to look at a specific property.
Planning
Planning activity in this market centre
Based on public planning application datasets.
Last 12 months
1401
Last 24 months
2747
Activity label
Active
In progress / received
Decision or grant recorded
Other recorded status
Showing 137 of
137 applications returned within
8 km during the last
12 months.
1401 applications were recorded in the last 12 months across the public planning datasets covering Mayo County Council.
This uses the nearest available public planning geography for Castlebar rather than a strict market-centre boundary.
Markers show public application records within a display radius. The radius is not a market-centre boundary,
a complete planning search, or property-level planning advice.
Not a substitute for a solicitor or formal planning search.
Area Context
Area context
Recorded offences are shown at Garda Division level for the division covering Castlebar.
Garda Division
Western Division
Recorded offences
11,200
Data year
2023
Covers Galway City, Galway County, Mayo, Roscommon.
Crime statistics are reported at Garda Division level — this covers a large geographic area and does not represent individual streets, townlands or properties. Figures are total recorded offences per year; population size varies significantly by division.
Source: CSO Table CJA09 — Recorded Crime Offences by Type and Garda Divisional Region.
Market Narrative
Market-centre narrative generated from the data
Based on recent public transaction evidence, the rolling median sale price in Castlebar was €251,500 across 112 recorded sales in the latest quarter. Recorded activity over the last 12 months totals 1174 sales, with recent monthly volume running below the same point last year. Recent sales evidence is available below so you can inspect the latest recorded transactions directly. Planning activity is shown as public planning application context, not as a property-level planning search.
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