# Fairfield Upper, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilfian, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Cnocán Bán Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,142,268 m² (114.23 ha, 282.26 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 40,626 m² (4.06 ha, 10.04 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilfian, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilfian.md - Barony: Tirawley - Electoral division: Fortland, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34422 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151691 - Centre: latitude 54.135022, longitude -9.331235 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fairfield Upper, from 182 m² to 165,107 m² (16.51 ha, 40.8 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4745355: 165,107 m² (16.51 ha, 40.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4745355.md - Parcel 967219: 143,372 m² (14.34 ha, 35.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/967219.md - Parcel 943641: 88,207 m² (8.82 ha, 21.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943641.md - Parcel 2733153: 77,604 m² (7.76 ha, 19.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733153.md - Parcel 874850: 76,742 m² (7.67 ha, 18.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/874850.md - Parcel 992059: 67,433 m² (6.74 ha, 16.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/992059.md - Parcel 912428: 50,509 m² (5.05 ha, 12.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/912428.md - Parcel 911479: 50,481 m² (5.05 ha, 12.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/911479.md - Parcel 965300: 50,340 m² (5.03 ha, 12.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/965300.md - Parcel 1010403: 45,931 m² (4.59 ha, 11.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1010403.md - Parcel 985531: 45,108 m² (4.51 ha, 11.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985531.md - Parcel 2526397: 41,923 m² (4.19 ha, 10.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2526397.md - Parcel 980736: 40,626 m² (4.06 ha, 10.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980736.md - Parcel 999068: 37,745 m² (3.77 ha, 9.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/999068.md - Parcel 945246: 30,965 m² (3.1 ha, 7.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/945246.md - Parcel 951917: 30,639 m² (3.06 ha, 7.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/951917.md - Parcel 884370: 26,906 m² (2.69 ha, 6.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/884370.md - Parcel 976818: 21,231 m² (2.12 ha, 5.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976818.md - Parcel 951591: 13,460 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/951591.md - Parcel 3854166: 8,873 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3854166.md - Parcel 890395: 7,940 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890395.md - Parcel 953976: 5,906 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953976.md - Parcel 3691623: 4,990 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3691623.md - Parcel 941003: 2,847 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/941003.md - Parcel 3691620: 182 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3691620.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 20 Jul 2026, Mayo County Council 2660579: Conditional. Permission. The Construction of 1 No. Dwelling House, Garage & Wastewater Treatment System with Soil Polishing Filter. Including all other ancillary site work and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660579/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fairfield Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fairfield Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fairfield Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_321.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/fairfield-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/fairfield-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/fairfield-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballaghamuck: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballaghamuck.md - Ballynacloy: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballynacloy-150272.md - Behy: https://everytownland.com/mayo/behy-150356.md - Carrowgarve North: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowgarve-north.md - Fairfield Lower: https://everytownland.com/mayo/fairfield-lower.md - Fortland: https://everytownland.com/mayo/fortland.md - Rathnamagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rathnamagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/fairfield-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/fairfield-upper