Fountainhill

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fountainhill, from 60 m² to 183,491 m² (18.35 ha, 45.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Fountainhill 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Fountainhill in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Fountainhill.

Recorded monuments

• MA121-069 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope. Roughly D-shaped area (diam. 33m E-W), enclosed by bank of earth and stone (H 2.6m). Gap (Wth 6m) in SE. External linear bank (L 18m; H 0.6m) of earth and stone runs parallel to site on S. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 308. Date of upload: 5 January 2015

• MA121-119 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rich pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. D-shaped area (31m N-S; 31m E-W), enclosed by inner bank (H 0.6m) and external bank (ext. H 1.2m), with well defined intervening fosse (D 1.7m). Fosse interrupted on E by entrance (Wth 2.1m), with causeway. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 164. Date of upload: 12 January 2015

• MA121-199 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a NW−facing terrace on a low hill. A modern road skirts the base of the hill at W−NW This rath is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It has been partly levelled and the remains are now very low profile at ground level. Subcircular area (38m N−S; 41m E−W) defined by a levelled bank. At W−E the bank is reduced to a broad, low undulation (Wth 3-4), which merges with the natural fall of ground at the terrace edge; at NW the terrace slope drops 1.7m to lower ground. At SE−SW the bank is evident as an inward-sloping scarp (int. H c. 0.7m), which cuts across the rising hill slope. Stones protrude from the sod in parts around the perimeter. A low area (Wth c. 3-4m) on the perimeter at E, with a gently external slope, may be an original entrance. There is another, poorly defined low area at SW. In the NW quadrant, a low scarp (H 0.45m) curves NW−N in a shallow arc (L c. 7m), with a large stone or bedrock protruding from the N end. It marks a drop in interior ground level along the NW perimeter of the terrace. There are two enclosure (MA121-068----; MA121-069----) 225m and 350m to SE and E, respectively, and Kilkeeran church (MA121-065001-) and ecclesiastical enclosure (MA121-065003-) are located 450m to W. Attached images: MA121-199----_01.JPG Viewed from E MA121-199----_02.JPG Viewed from W MA101-199----_03.JPG Levelled bank on E arc Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 31 March 2021

Architectural heritage

• Fountainhill, farm house, 1700–1769 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1769[?], on a symmetrical plan. For sale, 1852. Occupied, 1911. For sale, 1969. Now in ruins. Remains of hipped slate roof on timber construction with clay ridge tiles, paired fine roughcast central chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls. Segmental-headed[?] central door opening with overgrown threshold, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing remains of six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Interior in ruins including (ground floor): central entrance hall retaining timber surrounds to some door openings framing remains of timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing remains of timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to some window openings. Set in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having lichen-covered capping supporting wrought iron "farm gate".

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).

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

Name

Fountainhill · Cnoc an Tobair

Area

838,604 m² (83.86 ha, 207.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmainebeg, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Kilmaine, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmoran, Ardvarney, Cahermaculick, Carrownturly, Frenchbrook South, Gortnaskohoge, Kilkeeran

Placenames

Fountainhill on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.