Mayo

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mayo, from 54 m² to 805,155 m² (80.52 ha, 198.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Mayo 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.

• 17 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for the erection of a bungalow, entrance, effluent treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660553

• 12 Aug 2026N/a

  erect a bungalow, entrance, waste water treatment with percolation area, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2654

• 9 Dec 2025Conditional

  retain for a temporary period of time not exceeding 10 years, the residential cabin as constructed, connection to existing services and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560829

• 23 Oct 2024Conditional

  Retain the widened existing agricultural entrance and gate and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2460641

• 25 Jan 2024Conditional

  retain the following, No.1 alterations to a domestic garage to include the construction of a first floor extension, the construction of a storey & a half type extension to the west elevation and the construction of a single storey extension to the east elevation. No.2 the construction of a domestic shed/store, and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460034

• 4 Jun 2020Conditional

  retain 3 commercial portal frame buildings constructed to accommodate the manufacture of agricultural equipment including a toilet & canteen and associated site works using the existing entrance, also planning permission to install a proprietary waste water treatment system and sand polishing filter and associated site works.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 20270

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 Mayo.

Recorded monuments

• LA036-001001 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating countryside. Cropmark of enclosure visible on aerial photograph (GSI, S 25-6). No visible surface remains. A possible cairn (LA036-001002-) lay to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA036-001002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Possible cairn visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 25/6). No visible on ground. A possible enclosure (LA036-001001-) lay to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mayo, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mayo · Maigh Eo

Area

2,736,734 m² (273.67 ha, 676.26 acres)

Civil parish

Killabban, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Newtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

330 people lived in 117 households in the Newtown electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumagh, Garrendenny, Gortahile, Monavea

Placenames

Mayo 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.