Luffertaun
Luffertaun is a townland in the civil parish of Ballintober, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Lúghortán.
- Area
- 60.5 ha
- 150 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 2,813 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Luffertaun, from 88 m² to 322,819 m² (32.28 ha, 79.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Luffertaun 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Dec 2025Conditional
Previously granted under Planning Ref: No. 19/473, the development with consist of retention of changes to elevations of the existing service station and shop together with all associated site development works at the above address.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660024
27 Jan 2025Conditional
Planning permission for development at Ballintubber National School, Luffertaun, Ballintubber, Claremorris, Co. Mayo comprising; Construction of new stand-alone Mainstream Classroom and all ancillary siteworks and services (Height of stand alone new Classroom: 6 metres high)
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560039
15 Oct 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426
21 May 2021Conditional
RETAIN CHANGE OF BUILDING TYPE TO PERMISSION PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING NUMBER P18/765 FOR A NEW PRE-SCHOOL CLASSROOM INCLUDING CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SCHOOL SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 21524
31 Oct 2019Conditional
EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO SCHOOL FOR ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION AND CIRCULATION AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19869
18 Jun 2019Conditional
EXTENSION TO EXISTING SERVICE STATION AND COFFEE SHOP AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19473
4 Feb 2019Conditional
EXTEND AND RENOVATE EXISTING HOUSE, INSTALL NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RELOCATE DRIVEWAY ENTRANCE
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1963
24 Oct 2018N/a
OUTLINE PERMISSION FOR DETACHED DWELLINGHOUSE, TOGETHER WITH PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Outline permission · Mayo County Council, 18829
24 Oct 2018N/a
OUTLINE PERMISSION FOR DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Outline permission · Mayo County Council, 18832
5 Oct 2018Conditional
PROVISION OF A NEW PRE-SCHOOL CLASSROOM, CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SCHOOL SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18765
30 Jul 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18585
14 Sept 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17741
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Luffertaun.
Recorded monuments
- MA089-047 Castle - unclassified
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA089-048 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA089-049 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Luffertaun House, farm house, 1840–1895 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey part double-pile farmhouse, extant 1895, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled breakfront with single-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey central return (west). Refenestrated. Pitched part double-pile (M-profile) slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, central chimney stack on axis with ridge having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, central rooflight to rear (west) pitch, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on cut-limestone or rendered eaves. Tuck pointed rock faced limestone ashlar battered walls with drag edged rock faced cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings centred on square-headed window openings originally in bipartite arrangement[?] with lichen-covered cut-limestone sills, and drag edged rock faced cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Luffertaun Castle (extant 1603; in ruins 1838) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone monolithic piers to perimeter supporting looped cast-iron double gates.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Luffertaun, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Luffertaun.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Luffertaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Luffertaun · Lúghortán
- Area
- 605,369 m² (60.54 ha, 149.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballintober, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Killavally, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 518 people lived in 181 households in the Killavally electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Attavally, Derrynacannana, Drumminroe East, Pollawaddy, Skehanagh Lower
- Placenames
- Luffertaun 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.