# Fountainhill, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilmainebeg, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cnoc an Tobair.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 838,604 m² (83.86 ha, 207.22 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,623 m² (1.66 ha, 4.11 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilmainebeg, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilmainebeg.md
- Barony: Kilmaine
- Electoral division: Kilmaine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,014 people lived in 375 households in the Kilmaine electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 17% 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/35035
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151730
- Centre: latitude 53.557958, longitude -9.139956 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fountainhill, from 60 m² to 183,491 m² (18.35 ha, 45.34 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 909856: 183,491 m² (18.35 ha, 45.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/909856.md
- Parcel 909804: 127,299 m² (12.73 ha, 31.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/909804.md
- Parcel 873990: 100,575 m² (10.06 ha, 24.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873990.md
- Parcel 874385: 81,990 m² (8.2 ha, 20.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/874385.md
- Parcel 890577: 68,165 m² (6.82 ha, 16.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890577.md
- Parcel 909823: 58,451 m² (5.85 ha, 14.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/909823.md
- Parcel 909045: 42,756 m² (4.28 ha, 10.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/909045.md
- Parcel 909451: 31,341 m² (3.13 ha, 7.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/909451.md
- Parcel 979945: 29,237 m² (2.92 ha, 7.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/979945.md
- Parcel 874007: 28,009 m² (2.8 ha, 6.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/874007.md
- Parcel 911397: 18,052 m² (1.81 ha, 4.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/911397.md
- Parcel 873947: 16,798 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873947.md
- Parcel 933190: 16,449 m² (1.64 ha, 4.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/933190.md
- Parcel 1002817: 8,540 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1002817.md
- Parcel 4626023: 7,917 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4626023.md
- Parcel 4875886: 5,659 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4875886.md
- Parcel 3566007: 4,861 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3566007.md
- Parcel 934555: 2,756 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/934555.md
- Parcel 893927: 2,055 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/893927.md
- Parcel 944318: 1,792 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/944318.md
- Parcel 951135: 1,538 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/951135.md
- Parcel 992884: 1,448 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/992884.md
- Parcel 984659: 970 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/984659.md
- Parcel 909531: 60 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/909531.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## 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 Fountainhill.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA121-069: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA121-069----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA121-119----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA121-199----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Fountainhill, farm house, 1700–1769, Regional interest, registry number 31312135, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA&regno=31312135. 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".

## 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 Fountainhill, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fountainhill.
- 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/fountainhill.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/fountainhill.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/fountainhill.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Fountainhill 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)

- Ardmoran: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ardmoran.md
- Ardvarney: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ardvarney-150088.md
- Cahermaculick: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cahermaculick.md
- Carrownturly: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrownturly.md
- Frenchbrook South: https://everytownland.com/mayo/frenchbrook-south.md
- Gortnaskohoge: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gortnaskohoge.md
- Kilkeeran: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kilkeeran-152016.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.

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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.

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