Fotish
Fotish is a townland in the civil parish of Crossmolina, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Fótais.
- Area
- 111 ha
- 274 acres
- Land parcels
- 101
- registered freehold, median 8,089 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- Self-Sustaining Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
101 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fotish, from 17 m² to 127,671 m² (12.77 ha, 31.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4Self-Sustaining Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Nov 2025Conditional
Consist of the construction of 1 No. Dwelling House & Wastewater Treatment System with Soil Polishing Filter. Including all other ancillary site work and services.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560845
21 Mar 2025Conditional
(1) Change of house type, (2) Relocation of proposed garage, from that as previously granted under reference no. P15/445 and subsequently extended under P15/4450, together with and all associated site works at Fotish Td., Crossmolina, Co. Mayo
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560159
14 Oct 2024Conditional
The planning permission for alterations and extension to an existing semi-detached dwelling at Fotish, Crossmolina, Co. Mayo. The development will consist of the following: the construction of an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house; a shed to rear of site; alterations to elevations; internal reconfiguration; new on-site wastewater system together with all ancillary site development works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460641
29 Aug 2024Conditional
Consist of the Construction of 1 No. Dwelling House & Wastewater Treatment System with Soil Polishing Filter. Including all other ancillary site work and services.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460542
9 Mar 2023Conditional
construction of 1 no. dwelling house (incorporating independent living section), domestic garage and wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter, including all other ancillary site work and services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23124
23 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ON SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM NEW SITE ENTRANCE TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21666
22 Feb 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPOSED BORED WELL, PROPOSED ON SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21136
6 Jun 2019Refused
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19435
8 Aug 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17637
15 Jun 2017Refused
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17464
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fotish.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fotish.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Fotish, about 1 in 10 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_322 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Fotish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Fotish · Fótais
- Area
- 1,110,070 m² (111.01 ha, 274.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crossmolina, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Crossmolina North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,105 people lived in 445 households in the Crossmolina North electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abbeytown, Cloonawillin, Crossmolina, Enagh More, Lecarrow, Tooreen
- Placenames
- Fotish 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.