Buckfield

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Buckfield, from 163 m² to 125,057 m² (12.51 ha, 30.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Buckfield 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 Apr 2026Conditional

  Demolish existing storage sheds to accommodate an extension to the dwelling house to provide an independent living unit (granny flat), and all associated ancillary site development works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660309

• 14 Apr 2026N/a

  Demolish existing storage sheds to accommodate an extension to the dwelling house to provide an independent living unit (granny flat), and all associated ancillary site development works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660298

• 6 Nov 2025Conditional

  construction of an extension together with minor alterations to existing dwelling house together with all ancillary site services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25455

• 5 Aug 2025Conditional

  construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system adn percolation area together with associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25326

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24432

• 17 Jan 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, SINGLE STOREY DETACHED GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2213

• 29 May 2018Conditional

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED TO INCLUDE MINOR ELEVATION CHANGES TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES, P06/2010 REFERS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 18398

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 Buckfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Buckfield.

Architectural heritage

• Kilmeena Church (Kilmeena), church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1835; consecrated 1837; extant 1838, with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch to entrance (south) front below single-bay three-stage engaged tower on a square plan. Closed, 1887[?]. In ruins, 1897. Damaged, 1901. "Restored", 2004, to accommodate occasional residential use. For sale, 2012. Replacement pitched slate roof on King post timber construction with ridge tiles, lichen-covered cut-limestone "Cavetto" coping to gables on drag edged tooled cut-limestone kneelers, rooflights, and uPVC rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Part repointed tuck pointed coursed or snecked limestone battered walls on battered plinth with drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement fittings. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (north) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement fittings. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (south) front with concrete step threshold, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having overpanel. Interior reconstructed, 2004. Set in relandscaped grounds on a corner site with piers to perimeter having lichen-covered drag edged tooled cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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 Buckfield, 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 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 Buckfield.

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.

• Buckfield, Kilmeena7 sales

Name

Buckfield · Cill Dabheoige

Area

961,617 m² (96.16 ha, 237.62 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeena, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Kilmeena, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,616 people lived in 558 households in the Kilmeena electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cross, Knockballagh, Knockychottaun, Knockysprickaun, Moyna, Moyour

Placenames

Buckfield 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.