Bushfield

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bushfield, from 444 m² to 120,701 m² (12.07 ha, 29.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Bushfield 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.

• 11 Dec 2024Conditional

  Full Planning Permission is being sought to construct a detached two-storey dwelling house, separate garage, new entrance, new boundary treatments, new wastewater treatment system, connections to site services, and all associated site works and landscaping at the above address.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460754

• 27 Sept 2023Conditional

  construct an agricultural slatted shed along with all necessary site works and ancillaries

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23551

• 14 Feb 2020Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HABITABLE DWELLING HOUSE, REMOVE THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2089

• 7 Mar 2019Conditional

  DEMOLITION AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PRIVATE DWELLINGHOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, CONSTRUCT NEW PRIVATE VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE. DEMOLITION OF DISUSED SHEDS AT FARMYARD ENTRANCE AND WIDEN SAME TO SERVE AS AGRICUTURAL ENTRANCE TO FARMYARD. RETENTION PLANNING TO RETAIN 1 NO. AGRICULTURAL SHED INCLUDING ANCILLARY SLURRY STORAGE FACILITIES ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES. PREVIOUS PLANNING REFERENCE NO. P06/1492 REFER

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19154

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 Bushfield.

Recorded monuments

• MA111-053 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, occupying a low rise incorporating bedrock, with good views over the surrounding gently undulating limestone grassland. This cashel is named ‘Cahernasbunnog’on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps. It had already been greatly damaged by the early 1900's when Knox (1911, 111-2) recorded it as follows: ‘The walls were as high as a man fifty years ago, but have been nearly all removed. The great inner ring wall, enclosing a space about 100 feet [30m] in diameter, was 13 feet [c. 4m] thick in three sections. The inner section had two faces. Outside it was built in a single face, and stones thrown in against the face of the inner ring. Another face was built outside this, and stones thrown in as before…Outside this greater wall are traces of two thin walls, with narrow spaces between.’ An originally roughly circular area (int. diam. 31.6m N–S; c. 29-30m E–W), truncated now at the E, is enclosed on the W half by the remains of two, possibly three enclosing walls with at least one intervening fosse. Past disturbance and robbing of the walls has reduced them to low, intermittent sod-covered rises which are difficult to trace. On the E half all the enclosing elements have been removed and the cashel truncated to a linear scarp. A concrete farmyard, with a silage pit and sheds, overlies the SE edge of the cashel. The innermost enclosing wall is evident as a broad, low sod-covered stony rise (Wth 6-7m) which slumps into the interior. It is most substantial at S–SW, becoming less distinct at W−N where it is marked by a growth of nettles. The outer edge of this slumped rise is defined intermittently at S–W by a basal course of stone facing consisting of massive contiguous horizontally-laid limestone slabs. Immediately outside the stone facing is another stone bank (Wth 1.5-1.8m). The stone facing, therefore, intervenes between two stone banks. This is difficult to interpret but may confirm Knox’s description of the inner wall of the cashel being ‘13 feet thick in three sections’ with an outer section built against the stone facing of an inner section. A gap or fosse (Wth 2-2.5m) intervenes between the inner enclosing wall and a second low stone bank/wall (Wth 1.8-2m; max. int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.45m-0.5m) which can be traced in various degrees of preservation, the best preserved portion being at NNW−N. Outside the second wall there is a berm or terrace (Wth 2-2.5m), the outer scarp of which is faced with upright limestone slabs, which may represent the third enclosing wall noted by Knox. The interior is fairly level, and appears slightly raised above exterior ground level, the result of utilisation of a natural rise. A ruined field wall, evident as sod-covered wall footings (Wth c. 0.6m), crosses the interior on a ENE–WSW axis. In the W half there is a rectangular pit (E–W 2m; 6m N–S; D 0.5m) which extends N–S along the inner face of the stone bank. It is partly filled with loose stone and debris, and obscured by a dense growth of nettles. At its N end a sod-covered heap of stones (Wth 1.7m) separates it from a shallower stony pit or depression (4m E–W; 4.5m N–S; D 0.2m) which extends to the E. These features appear to be the result of relatively recent quarrying; the shallower pit appears to cut the relict field wall that crosses the interior. Clumps of nettles and thistles, and hawthorn bushes ring the perimeter. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 December 2022

• MA111-054 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on a slight elevation in gently undulating limestone grassland. A circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 17m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. There is no visible trace at ground level. A cashel (MA111-053----) is located c. 50m to W. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 December 2022

• MA119-077 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on a slight rise in gently undulating terrain broken by limestone outcropping. Ground rises gently to E. Bushfield House, an 18th-century country house (now in ruins) and associated farm buildings are located 260m to SE. This possible rath is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It has been levelled and the remains are very low profile at ground level. Subcircular area (32m N−S; c. 30m E−W) defined on the W arc by a low stony rise/bank (Wth 1.5-2m; H 0.2-0.3m) from which large stones protrude, and elsewhere by a barely discernible undulation. Traces of a linear N−S feature –possibly a levelled field wall −extend from the perimeter at N through the NE quadrant towards the centre of the enclosure. Levelled field boundaries/walls merge with the enclosure at SW and NW and E –they are evident as low linear grass-covered rises. A single hawthorn tree stands on the perimeter at NW. Attached images: MA119-077----_01.JPG Enclosure viewed from SW MA119-077----_02.JPG Stony bank on W arc MA119-077----_03.JPG Enclosure viewed from E Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 August 2021

• MA119-078 Barrow - pond barrow
  Description

  Located in level pasture, 300m E of Bushfield House, an 18th-century country house (now in ruins). This enclosure is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps; it is visible in current aerial imagery. Circular sunken area (diam. 21m) defined by a low-profile earthen bank (Wth 7m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.75-0.8m). The bank has broadly slumped sides. The external slope is quite well defined, but the internal slope merging seamlessly with the shallow sunken interior. The interior is damp; there was a small pool in base on the day of visit. Two hawthorn bushes grow on the bank, one at NE, the other at SE. This is an interesting and unusual enclosure enclosure. The fact that it is not shown on the OS maps might suggest that it is relatively recent in date, however, the broad, low bank and shallow, sunken interior suggest it might be a pond barrow. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of Upload: 11 May 2022

Architectural heritage

• Bushfield, farmyard complex, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, extant 1838, including (west): Detached two-bay two-storey stable outbuilding[?] on a symmetrical plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls on battered base with hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Pair of square-headed central door openings with hammered limestone lintels framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings with hammered limestone voussoirs (ground floor) or hammered limestone lintels (first floor) framing remains of timber fittings. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Bushfield.

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 Bushfield, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_448 (ZIP).

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

Name

Bushfield · Na Críocha Dubha Thuaidh

Area

786,160 m² (78.62 ha, 194.26 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Kilcommon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

676 people lived in 257 households in the Kilcommon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brittas, Cregduff, Pollbaun, Shantallow

Placenames

Bushfield 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.