Houndswood North

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Houndswood North, from 112 m² to 187,672 m² (18.77 ha, 46.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 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 North 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.

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  to retain an entrance to a dwelling house, at a revised location, on an enlarged site to that granted permission initially under planning file reference P02/396

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560511

• 14 Jul 2025Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated works at the above address

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560463

• 21 May 2024Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, construction of a new proprietary sewage treatment system and all associated works at the above address

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460313

• 22 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211225

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20695

• 26 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND UTILITY GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK, WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND NEW ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18573

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 North.

Recorded monuments

• MA121-139001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In wettish pasture, beside holy well (MA121-139002-). Rectangular area (23m N-S; 20m E-W), bounded S to E by stone field fences. Over 70 grave markers, a sandstone slab and a burial dating to 1919. 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. 674. Date of upload: 13 January 2015

• MA121-139002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On S-facing slope of rough pasture beside children's burial ground (MA121-139001-). Appears that original well source has shifted 3m to S and is marked by rough masonry. Named Toberaninyaun on the 1929 OS 6-inch map. 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. 654. Date of upload: 13 January 2015

• MA121-140 Enclosure
  Description

  In SW-facing slope, in pasture. Marked on the 1838 OS 6-inch map (1838) as circular enclosure, and on the later 25 inch plan as an oval enclosure (35m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE). Not shown on the 1929 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface traces. 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. 365. Date of upload: 13 January 2015

• MA121-141 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on ridge sloping to S. Circular area (65m N-S; 68m E-W), enclosed by substantial stone wall (Wth 1.8m; H 2m), S to NW. Low bank of earth and stone NW to S with gap (Wth 2.2m) on SE. Internal division on SE of site. 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. 286. Date of upload: 13 January 2015

• MA121-142001 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, sloping to S. Circular area (12m N-S; 10m E-W), enclosed by low bank of earth and stone (H 0.8m). Local tradition of children’s burials (MA121-142002-). 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. 675. Date of upload: 13 January 2015

• MA121-142002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  There is a local tradition that a possible barrow (MA121-142001-) was used as a children’s burial ground (Lavelle 1994, 99, no. 675). 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 North.

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 5 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 North.

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

Name

Houndswood North · Coill Madra Thuaidh

Area

1,529,820 m² (152.98 ha, 378.03 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

Bunnafollistran, Coolavally, Cordroon, Cross East, Cross West, Funshinaugh, Houndswood Middle, Houndswood South

Placenames

Houndswood North 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.