# Birchfield, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo; in Irish Páirc na Beithe. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 455,961 m² (45.6 ha, 112.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,710 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilcolman-claremorris-ra.md - Barony: Clanmorris - Electoral division: Kilcolman, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 455 people lived in 159 households in the Kilcolman electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/36281 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150398 - Centre: latitude 53.761377, longitude -9.040255 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Birchfield, from 1,395 m² to 109,310 m² (10.93 ha, 27.01 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 910941: 109,310 m² (10.93 ha, 27.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910941.md - Parcel 895431: 65,191 m² (6.52 ha, 16.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895431.md - Parcel 890922: 65,019 m² (6.5 ha, 16.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890922.md - Parcel 900529: 48,746 m² (4.87 ha, 12.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900529.md - Parcel 986211: 38,412 m² (3.84 ha, 9.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/986211.md - Parcel 874719: 31,912 m² (3.19 ha, 7.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/874719.md - Parcel 893725: 31,249 m² (3.12 ha, 7.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/893725.md - Parcel 991441: 14,481 m² (1.45 ha, 3.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/991441.md - Parcel 981654: 9,936 m² (0.99 ha, 2.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/981654.md - Parcel 4974052: 9,094 m² (0.91 ha, 2.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4974052.md - Parcel 986126: 8,327 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/986126.md - Parcel 2719093: 6,265 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2719093.md - Parcel 2436550: 2,843 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2436550.md - Parcel 906154: 2,805 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/906154.md - Parcel 879955: 2,460 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/879955.md - Parcel 985994: 2,336 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985994.md - Parcel 944129: 2,142 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/944129.md - Parcel 963603: 1,511 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/963603.md - Parcel 872000: 1,503 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/872000.md - Parcel 932598: 1,395 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/932598.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Birchfield in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 1 Oct 2021, Mayo County Council 211046: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A WAREHOUSE, C.617M2, WITHIN AN EXISTING SERVICE YARD TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/211046/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Birchfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Birchfield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Birchfield. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Birchfield, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 the townland of Birchfield. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/birchfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/birchfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/birchfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Birchfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynastangford Lower: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballynastangford-lower.md - Ballynastangford Upper: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballynastangford-upper.md - Drumagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumagh-151574.md - Garrywadreen: https://everytownland.com/mayo/garrywadreen.md - Gorteenmore: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gorteenmore-151869.md - Kilnagower: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kilnagower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/birchfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/birchfield