Facefield

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Facefield, from 129 m² to 157,506 m² (15.75 ha, 38.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Facefield 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.

• 6 May 2025Conditional

  construct a 4 bay slatted shed, retain agricultural storage shed, retain extension to existing slatted shed all as per drawing documents submitted together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25185

• 19 Aug 2024Conditional

  extend and renovate existing dwelling house including new site entrance and an upgrade and relocation of septic tank/proprietary effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24346

• 26 Jul 2024Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24300

• 10 Jun 2024N/a

  extend and renovate existing dwelling house including an upgrde and relocation of septic tank/proprietary effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24221

• 7 Nov 2022Conditional

  Retain dwelling house and garage on revised location all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services

  Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22986

• 9 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK/FOUL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, ALL AS PER DRAWING DOCUMENTATION SUBMITTED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21607

• 14 Feb 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE, NEW TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREAS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20100

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 Facefield.

Recorded monuments

• MA091-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a slight rise in gently undulating terrain, with good views, especially to W–NW. Not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map but shown on the 1920 edition. Raised, roughly circular area (33.5m NE–SW; 37m NW–SE) defined by a substantial earthen bank (at SW: Wth 6-6.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 2.4m), with an external fosse evident as a slight depression at ESE–SE. An ephemeral rise outside the fosse may indicate a levelled external bank. At NW–N the bank is incorporated into a later field fence, which respects its arc. Two roughly circular depressions (diam. 4-6m), probably the result of past quarrying are located more or less on the line of the fosse at NNE–NE. The rath interior is level, with traces of cultivation ridges on a N–S axis. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.2m) at ESE, with well-defined bank terminals, a slightly ramped access slope, and a hint of a possible causeway across the fosse. Grass cover in the interior; the perimeter is thickly ringed with gorse, interspersed with a few hawthorn trees. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 February 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.

No address of the register names Facefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Facefield · Gort an Éadain

Area

1,894,944 m² (189.49 ha, 468.25 acres)

Civil parish

Mayo, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Mayo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mayo electoral division: 437 people in 168 households; 91% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlough, Ballynastangford Lower, Brees, Coolaghbaun, Gorteenmore, Gortnaraha, Mossbrook, Tawnylough

Placenames

Facefield 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.