# Lightford, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Breaghwy, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish Áthán Solais. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 308,365 m² (30.84 ha, 76.2 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,472 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Breaghwy, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/breaghwy.md - Barony: Carra - Electoral division: Castlebar Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 7,935 people lived in 2,987 households in the Castlebar Rural electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/35733 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152380 - Centre: latitude 53.834058, longitude -9.269574 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lightford, from 73 m² to 74,975 m² (7.5 ha, 18.53 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 898869: 74,975 m² (7.5 ha, 18.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/898869.md - Parcel 930050: 51,062 m² (5.11 ha, 12.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/930050.md - Parcel 953135: 38,024 m² (3.8 ha, 9.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953135.md - Parcel 918713: 16,535 m² (1.65 ha, 4.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/918713.md - Parcel 881239: 15,652 m² (1.57 ha, 3.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881239.md - Parcel 970992: 15,172 m² (1.52 ha, 3.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/970992.md - Parcel 924057: 12,459 m² (1.25 ha, 3.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/924057.md - Parcel 947766: 11,731 m² (1.17 ha, 2.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/947766.md - Parcel 881233: 10,222 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881233.md - Parcel 918584: 8,149 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/918584.md - Parcel 953845: 7,768 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953845.md - Parcel 1011505: 4,492 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1011505.md - Parcel 949446: 4,067 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/949446.md - Parcel 953997: 3,849 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953997.md - Parcel 924058: 3,205 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/924058.md - Parcel 922548: 2,815 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/922548.md - Parcel 953998: 2,679 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953998.md - Parcel 955463: 2,472 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955463.md - Parcel 948613: 2,401 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/948613.md - Parcel 938491: 2,073 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/938491.md - Parcel 923114: 1,892 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/923114.md - Parcel 968671: 1,824 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/968671.md - Parcel 918714: 1,783 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/918714.md - Parcel 918098: 1,639 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/918098.md - Parcel 976429: 1,567 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/976429.md - Parcel 991598: 1,460 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/991598.md - Parcel 985166: 1,434 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/985166.md - Parcel 915263: 1,391 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/915263.md - Parcel 872908: 1,375 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/872908.md - Parcel 900283: 1,329 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/900283.md - Parcel 891084: 1,177 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/891084.md - Parcel 953844: 789 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/953844.md - Parcel 5684544: 419 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5684544.md - Parcel 888458: 385 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/888458.md - Parcel 2707942: 73 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2707942.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lightford 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 22 Dec 2022, Mayo County Council 221173: N/a. Permission. construction of single dwelling, entrance, on-site wastewater treatment system and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/221173/0 - 25 Nov 2020, Mayo County Council 20914: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20914/0 - 8 Jul 2020, Mayo County Council 20441: Conditional. Permission. CREATE A NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20441/0 - 19 May 2020, Mayo County Council 20313: Conditional. Permission. UPGRADE OF EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20313/0 - 29 Mar 2018, Mayo County Council 18220: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18220/0 - 11 May 2017, Mayo County Council 17358: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCT DWELLINGHOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISITNG PUBLIC SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/17358/0 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 Lightford. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lightford. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lightford. ## 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 Lightford, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_355, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_355.zip (ZIP). - 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/lightford.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lightford.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lightford.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lightford 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) - Balloor: https://everytownland.com/mayo/balloor-150164.md - Carn: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carn-150584.md - Curry: https://everytownland.com/mayo/curry-151327.md - Drumminracahill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumminracahill-151618.md - Drumminracahill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumminracahill-151619.md - Hawthornlodge: https://everytownland.com/mayo/hawthornlodge.md - Lisnakirka or Milebush: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lisnakirka-or-milebush.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/lightford - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/lightford