Bloomfield

177 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bloomfield, from 765 m² to 490,785 m² (49.08 ha, 121.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 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 Bloomfield 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.

• 20 Dec 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct a proposed amenity area and memorial sculpture as shown on plans and all ancillary site developments

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660018

• 22 Jul 2025N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: develop amenity area at "White Gates" on R331 approx. 1km from the village of Hollymount, consisting of landscaped area, seating area, paving and biodiversity areas, incorporating a commemoration of the late Frank Stagg

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25290

• 22 Mar 2024Conditional

  Planning permission to renovate & extend existing dwelling house & construct garage as shown on plans and all ancillary site developments at the above address.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460163

• 26 Feb 2024N/a

  Planning permission to renovate & extend existing dwelling house & construct garage as shown on plans and all ancillary site developments

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460077

• 29 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A MILKING PARLOUR, CONSTRUCT NEW AGRICULTURAL BUILDING FOR HOUSING BOVINE LIVESTOCK, REBUILD THE DEMOLISHED SECTION OF GARDEN WALLS ON THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE SITE, RETAIN THE DEMOLISHED SECTION OF GARDEN WALLS ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE SITE. CONSTRUCT A COLLECTION ROADWAY AND SITE ENTRANCE AND RETAIN AND COMPLETE CATTLE TRAIL

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19860

• 19 Aug 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN OPENING GATE TO LANDS TO THE ADJACENT THIRD CLASS ROAD AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENTS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19640

• 12 Apr 2019Refused

  1) Construct an agricultural building 2) Retain existing farm roadways as shown on plans and all ancillary site developments. The proposed works are within the curtilage of a protected structure (number 0053)

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19257

• 22 May 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCT AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENTS. THE PROPOSED AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS WILL INCLUDE A NEW MILKING PARLOUR AND BUILDING

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18379

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 Bloomfield.

Recorded monuments

• MA110-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NE-facing slope of rise. Circular raised area (28m N-S; 29m E-W), enclosed by two earthen banks, with intervening fosse (D 0.4). Inner bank (H 0.3m) levelled, NE to S. Outer bank (H 0.2m) levelled, N to S. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 111. Date of upload: 28 October 2013

• MA110-071 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. Arched cropmark on aerial photograph (GSI). No visible surface traces. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 409. Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• MA110-072 Settlement cluster
  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.

• MA110-073 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on aerial photograph (GSI), as circular area (est. max. diam. c. 38m) enclosed by cropmark of fosse. Levelled; no visible surface traces. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 410. Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• MA110-074 Enclosure
  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.

• MA110-075 Enclosure
  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.

• MA110-076 Earthwork
  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.

• MA110-080 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Crescent-shaped mound (L 2m; Wth 2m N-S; H 1m), in low-lying pasture. Burnt material visible under grass cover. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 69. Date of upload: 30 October 2013

Architectural heritage

• Bloomfield House, country house, 1765–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or five-bay (five-bay deep) three-storey over part raised basement country house, built 1769[?]; extant 1777, on a square plan with three-bay full-height rear (north) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1924. Intact, 1930. Vacant, 1931. Resold, 1933. In ruins, 1945. Roof now missing with overgrown central chimney stacks, and no rainwater goods surviving on dragged cut-limestone eaves having drag edged dragged cut-limestone "Cavetto" consoles. Creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls on lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on fine roughcast base. Outline of hipped segmental-headed central door opening with no fittings surviving. Outline of square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (upper floors) with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings with square-headed (ground floor) or round-headed (first floor) window openings to rear (north) elevation centred on round-headed window opening, drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.

• Bloomfield House, farmyard complex, 1765–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, extant 1838, on a quadrangular plan about a courtyard including (east): Creeper- or ivy-covered ruins; (west): Attached eleven-bay single-storey outbuilding with half-attic on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay three-stage meat hanging tower on a square plan. Reroofed. Now disused. Pyramidal central roof now missing with no rainwater goods surviving on dragged cut-limestone eaves. Replacement pitched corrugated-iron flanking roofs with pressed iron ridges, and no rainwater goods surviving on dragged cut-limestone eaves having drag edged dragged cut-limestone "Cavetto" consoles. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls with hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with cut-limestone step threshold, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround centred on drag edged tooled cut-limestone keystone framing lattice-detailed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-door. Pointed-arch blind openings (upper stages) with cut-limestone voussoirs framing rubble limestone infill. Series of ten elliptical-headed carriageways with cut-limestone voussoirs. Square-headed window openings (half-attic) with cut-limestone surrounds; (south): Attached five-bay single-storey outbuilding on a symmetrical plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof extending into lean-to slate roof (north) with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on dragged cut-limestone eaves having drag edged dragged cut-limestone "Cavetto" consoles. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls with rendered hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with cut-limestone step threshold, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround centred on drag edged tooled cut-limestone keystone. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone lintels framing timber pivot fittings; (north): Attached three-bay single-storey outbuilding with half-attic on a symmetrical plan with three-bay full-height rear (north) elevation. Now disused. Hipped gabled slate roof on collared timber construction with pressed iron-covered clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on dragged cut-limestone eaves having drag edged dragged cut-limestone "Cavetto" consoles. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls with hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed door openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds centred on drag edged tooled cut-limestone keystones. Square-headed window openings (half-attic) with cut-limestone surrounds. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Bloomfield House.

• Bloomfield House, walled garden, 1765–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1838, with coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping. Now disused. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Bloomfield House.

• Bloomfield House, gates/railings/walls, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1894, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of drag edged tooled limestone ashlar piers having cut-limestone capping supporting arrow head-detailed flat iron double gates. Repositioned, ----. Now disused. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Bloomfield House.

• Post box, 1939–1955 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, between 1939-55, with "P7T [Posts and Telegraphs]" monogram. Set in coursed rubble limestone wall.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Bloomfield, Hollymount6 sales

Name

Bloomfield · Bloomfield

Area

3,333,829 m² (333.38 ha, 823.81 acres)

Civil parish

Robeen, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Hollymount, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Hollymount electoral division: 867 people in 303 households; 87% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel, Clooncormick, Cuillaun, Curraboy, Hollymount Demesne, Lehinch Demesne, Parknakillew

Placenames

Bloomfield 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.