Fairfield Upper

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fairfield Upper, from 182 m² to 165,107 m² (16.51 ha, 40.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Fairfield Upper 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 Jul 2026Conditional

  The Construction of 1 No. Dwelling House, Garage & Wastewater Treatment System with Soil Polishing Filter. Including all other ancillary site work and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660579

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 Fairfield Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fairfield Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Fairfield Upper, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_321 (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 Fairfield Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Fairfield Upper · An Cnocán Bán Uachtarach

Area

1,142,268 m² (114.23 ha, 282.26 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfian, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Fortland, the unit of the census

Census 2022

556 people lived in 192 households in the Fortland electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghamuck, Ballynacloy, Behy, Carrowgarve North, Fairfield Lower, Fortland, Rathnamagh

Placenames

Fairfield Upper 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.