Fauleens

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fauleens, from 392 m² to 132,912 m² (13.29 ha, 32.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Fauleens 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.

• 30 Sept 2025Conditional

  construct dwelling house with waste water treatment system and garage on site together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25411

• 3 Mar 2021Conditional

  RETENTION OF AN EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE (PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLAN REF NO. 15/719) TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPMENT CABINEST WITHIN A FENCED COMPOUND

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 21176

• 30 Jun 2020Conditional

  DEMOLITIONS OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLINGHOUSE, PROVISION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20421

• 1 Jun 2018Conditional

  RETENTION OF EXISTING DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF AN EXISTING 30M HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE CARRYING TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, TOGETHER WITH EXISTING EQUIPMENT CONTAINER AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT WITHIN A FENCED COMPOUND AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P12/162

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 18410

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 Fauleens.

Recorded monuments

• MA063-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In poor-average, undulating pasture, located on a rise, with a sharp fall of ground to W-NW. A circular enclosure (diam. 25-30m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later editions. This possible rath is evident as a slightly raised circular area (diam. 30m) defined ESE-S by a partly levelled scarp (H 1m), which is reduced to a low undulation elsewhere. The interior is level and grass-covered. The entrance was most likely to the E, where the natural slope is gentle. When inspected in 1996, two straight field walls truncated the scarp at W and S, and there were two sod-covered heaps of stone, most likely field clearance, on the scarp at the SE; these have since been removed. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

• MA063-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, utilising a low rise. There is a drain/stream 25-30m to SW. Ground rises to S and falls to N. Raised circular area (32m E−W; 35m N−S) defined by an inner bank, immediately outside which it is enclosed by a fosse and external bank. The inner bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 3.2m at NW, 2.8m at NE) has remnants of drystone facing on its inner slope. Its external slope drops steeply into the fosse (Wth 3m), which is deeply cut and well defined around the circuit. The external bank (Wth 2.8m at NW, 3.5m at NE; int. H 1 at NW, 1.5m at NW; ext. H 0.6m at NW, 0.9m at NE) is well defined on the N half; on the S half it is adapted to serve as a field boundary, and is topped with a stone wall. There are two gaps in the inner bank: at ESE (Wth 2.4m) and at W (Wth 1.4m), both with a causeway across the fosse. At W the causeway leads to a broad corresponding break in the external bank; this is used as the current access to the rath. The gap and causeway at SE, which may have been an original entrance, are now blocked on the outer edge of the fosse by a bank/field fence incorporated into the line of the external bank. In the NW quadrant of the interior, there is a grassed-over hollow or depression (4m NE−SW; 1m NW-SE; D 0.3m) with a number of slabs and boulders protruding from it; its significance is uncertain. A number of large stones, in a rough arc, protrude from the grass adjacent to the inner face of the bank at N, also of uncertain significance. There are traces of cultivation ridges on a NE−SW axis across the interior. The inner bank is ringed with gorse and some blackthorn, which is encroaching in parts into the interior. The fosse and outer bank are cloaked in gorse, brambles, blackthorn and hawthorn, especially dense on the S arc where the outer bank serves as a field boundary. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 September 2020

• MA063-061 Burnt mound
  Description

  In pasture, adjacent to a NW flowing drain/stream. A grass-covered mound (14m NW–SE; 11m NE–SW; H 0.6m) composed of a concentration of angular stone fragments in dark soil. There is possible burnt mound (MA063-062----) c. 40m to SE in the same field and a rath (MA063-031----) is located c. 20m to N. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 December 2020

• MA063-062 Burnt mound
  Description

  In pasture, adjacent to a NW flowing drain/stream. This low, irregular rise (diam. 6-8m) is composed of angular stone fragments in dark brown soil. It may be a burnt mound. There is a burnt mound (MA063-061----) c. 40m to NW and a rath (MA063-031----) c. 60m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 December 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fauleens.

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

Name

Fauleens · Na Fáilíní

Area

2,194,262 m² (219.43 ha, 542.21 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Kilbeagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilbeagh electoral division: 1,068 people in 435 households; 73% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappulcorragh, Cashelduff, Cloonfane, Glenmullynaha East

Placenames

Fauleens 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.