# Houndswood Middle, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cong, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Coill Madra Láir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,729,027 m² (172.9 ha, 427.25 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 22,699 m² (2.27 ha, 5.61 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Cong, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/cong.md - Barony: Kilmaine - Electoral division: Houndswood, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34970 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151946 - Centre: latitude 53.533375, longitude -9.186051 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Houndswood Middle, from 58 m² to 293,644 m² (29.36 ha, 72.56 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 995769: 293,644 m² (29.36 ha, 72.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/995769.md - Parcel 1008440: 214,198 m² (21.42 ha, 52.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1008440.md - Parcel 4189400: 209,956 m² (21 ha, 51.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4189400.md - Parcel 1006281: 209,280 m² (20.93 ha, 51.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1006281.md - Parcel 905145: 187,107 m² (18.71 ha, 46.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/905145.md - Parcel 1005290: 176,717 m² (17.67 ha, 43.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1005290.md - Parcel 1002341: 170,730 m² (17.07 ha, 42.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1002341.md - Parcel 1012589: 96,180 m² (9.62 ha, 23.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012589.md - Parcel 1002116: 52,575 m² (5.26 ha, 12.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1002116.md - Parcel 5836935: 31,617 m² (3.16 ha, 7.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5836935.md - Parcel 997133: 28,544 m² (2.85 ha, 7.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/997133.md - Parcel 3465268: 22,699 m² (2.27 ha, 5.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3465268.md - Parcel 884420: 14,852 m² (1.49 ha, 3.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/884420.md - Parcel 971510: 3,825 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/971510.md - Parcel 1007003: 2,634 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1007003.md - Parcel 1002827: 2,431 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1002827.md - Parcel 4972035: 2,230 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4972035.md - Parcel 911307: 2,139 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/911307.md - Parcel 5254891: 2,126 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5254891.md - Parcel 5243340: 1,833 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5243340.md - Parcel 895691: 1,807 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/895691.md - Parcel 886513: 959 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/886513.md - Parcel 916007: 58 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/916007.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 22 Jul 2026, Mayo County Council 2660585: N/a. Permission. PROVISION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH VEHICLE ACCESS / EGRESS & LANDSCAPING, COMPLETE WITH FOUL WATER DRAINAGE SYSTEM & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS & SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660585/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Houndswood Middle. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA121-143: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA121-143----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA121-143001-. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Houndswood Middle. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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, 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/houndswood-middle.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/houndswood-middle.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/houndswood-middle.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cross East: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cross-east.md - Houndswood North: https://everytownland.com/mayo/houndswood-north.md - Houndswood South: https://everytownland.com/mayo/houndswood-south.md - Knocknageeha: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knocknageeha-152230.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/houndswood-middle - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/houndswood-middle