Mace Upper

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mace Upper, from 153 m² to 102,403 m² (10.24 ha, 25.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Mace Upper 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.

• 11 Aug 2026N/a

  (1) A two-storey extension to the front of the existing building including a new reception, classroom, function room, water closets, and offices. (2) A single storey extension to the rear of the existing building including a new storage room and water closet. (3) Alterations to the internal layout of the existing building. (4) The upgrade of the existing septic tank system to a proprietary effluent treatment system, along with all associated site development works at the above address.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660637

• 31 Mar 2025Conditional

  permission for extensions and alterations to existing national school together with all associated services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25119

• 22 Apr 2024Conditional

  construct horse stables together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24122

• 19 Dec 2023Conditional

  Retention of a domestic garage and all ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360547

• 28 Sept 2017Conditional

  EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING NATIONAL SCHOOL AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17770

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 Mace Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mace Upper.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mace Upper.

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 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 Mace Upper.

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

Name

Mace Upper · An Más Uachtarach

Area

1,431,313 m² (143.13 ha, 353.69 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Murneen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Murneen electoral division: 372 people in 149 households; 91% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfarnagh, Ballynabrehon North, Ballynabrehon South, Corbally, Mace Middle, Murneen South, Rockfield

Placenames

Mace Upper 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.