Massbrook Lower

125 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Massbrook Lower, from 31 m² to 422,954 m² (42.3 ha, 104.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Massbrook Lower 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.

• 29 May 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration; Build an agriculture shed for storage of garden tools

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24195

• 16 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF MINOR ALTERATIONS/RENOVATIONS AND EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUS GRANTED UNDER P99/302, INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22208

• 24 Feb 2020Conditional

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND RETAIN SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM.

  Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20134

• 3 Dec 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of the retention of existing dwelling on revised site boundaries (P09/258 refers)

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 18962

• 3 Dec 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18965

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
• Special Protection Area: Lough Conn and Lough Cullin SPA 004228
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Conn And Lough Cullin 000519

Recorded monuments

• MA047-047 House - indeterminate date
  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

• Massbrook House, country house, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Description Withheld

• Massbrook House, gates/railings/walls, 1885–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1896, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of cast-iron panelled piers on chamfered plinths having "Cavetto"-detailed pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron gate with roughcast-panelled rendered outer piers having moss-covered stepped capping supporting wrought iron railings. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Massbrook House.

• Post box, 1901–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, between 1901-10; extant 1915, with "ER [Edwardus Rex] VII" royal cipher. Set in ivy-covered rendered wall.

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

At the centre of the townland of Massbrook Lower, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Massbrook Lower.

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.

No address of the register names Massbrook Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Massbrook Lower · Sruthán an Aifrinn Íochtarach

Area

3,106,304 m² (310.63 ha, 767.58 acres)

Civil parish

Addergoole, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Addergoole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

900 people lived in 340 households in the Addergoole electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cuilkillew, Curraghmore, Massbrook South, Massbrook Upper, Pollawarla, Tawnagh

Placenames

Massbrook Lower 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.