Houndswood Middle

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Houndswood Middle, from 58 m² to 293,644 m² (29.36 ha, 72.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Houndswood Middle 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.

• 22 Jul 2026N/a

  PROVISION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH VEHICLE ACCESS / EGRESS & LANDSCAPING, COMPLETE WITH FOUL WATER DRAINAGE SYSTEM & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS & SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660585

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 Houndswood Middle.

Recorded monuments

• MA121-143 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In good pasture. Circular raised area (26m N-S; 29m E-W), enclosed by low bank (H 0.2m) of earth and stone. Circular hut site (ext. dims. 7.8m N-S; 8.3m E-W) (MA121-143001-) in centre of interior, defined by low stone foundations (H 0.2m; Wth 1.2m). 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. 169. Date of upload: 13 January 2015

• MA121-143001 Hut site
  Description

  In the centre of a rath (MA121-143----). Recorded by Lavelle (1994, 30, no. 169) as follows ‘Circular hut site (ext. dims. 7.8m N-S; 8.3m E-W) in centre of interior, defined by low stone foundations (H 0.2m; Wth 1.2m).’ Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 January 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, 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 Houndswood Middle.

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

Name

Houndswood Middle · Coill Madra Láir

Area

1,729,027 m² (172.9 ha, 427.25 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Houndswood, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Houndswood electoral division: 659 people in 256 households; 86% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cross East, Houndswood North, Houndswood South, Knocknageeha

Placenames

Houndswood Middle 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.