# Mountbrown, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghagower, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cnocán an Bhrúnaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,200,362 m² (120.04 ha, 296.62 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,132 m² (1.81 ha, 4.48 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghagower, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/aghagower.md - Barony: Burrishoole - Electoral division: Aghagower North, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,070 people lived in 354 households in the Aghagower North electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/36891 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152557 - Centre: latitude 53.775824, longitude -9.480909 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountbrown, from 70 m² to 154,511 m² (15.45 ha, 38.18 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 890047: 154,511 m² (15.45 ha, 38.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890047.md - Parcel 991494: 127,904 m² (12.79 ha, 31.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/991494.md - Parcel 985063: 120,033 m² (12 ha, 29.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985063.md - Parcel 900378: 108,172 m² (10.82 ha, 26.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900378.md - Parcel 887991: 83,954 m² (8.4 ha, 20.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/887991.md - Parcel 3787567: 79,585 m² (7.96 ha, 19.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3787567.md - Parcel 972273: 49,193 m² (4.92 ha, 12.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972273.md - Parcel 990773: 41,868 m² (4.19 ha, 10.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/990773.md - Parcel 972274: 34,372 m² (3.44 ha, 8.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972274.md - Parcel 1009387: 32,121 m² (3.21 ha, 7.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1009387.md - Parcel 881815: 29,098 m² (2.91 ha, 7.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881815.md - Parcel 906788: 26,162 m² (2.62 ha, 6.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/906788.md - Parcel 5122966: 24,870 m² (2.49 ha, 6.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5122966.md - Parcel 3022566: 23,719 m² (2.37 ha, 5.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3022566.md - Parcel 998108: 23,561 m² (2.36 ha, 5.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/998108.md - Parcel 973023: 23,420 m² (2.34 ha, 5.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/973023.md - Parcel 911736: 23,028 m² (2.3 ha, 5.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/911736.md - Parcel 5123011: 21,168 m² (2.12 ha, 5.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5123011.md - Parcel 972250: 19,844 m² (1.98 ha, 4.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972250.md - Parcel 972843: 18,945 m² (1.89 ha, 4.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972843.md - Parcel 881819: 17,318 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881819.md - Parcel 872810: 16,865 m² (1.69 ha, 4.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/872810.md - Parcel 881821: 14,715 m² (1.47 ha, 3.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881821.md - Parcel 906136: 14,586 m² (1.46 ha, 3.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/906136.md - Parcel 962504: 14,537 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962504.md - Parcel 995851: 14,388 m² (1.44 ha, 3.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/995851.md - Parcel 881025: 12,075 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881025.md - Parcel 881740: 6,700 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881740.md - Parcel 925017: 5,020 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/925017.md - Parcel 4429697: 4,017 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4429697.md - Parcel 3787551: 2,534 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3787551.md - Parcel 5034127: 2,241 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5034127.md - Parcel 876749: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/876749.md - Parcel 916498: 2,002 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/916498.md - Parcel 912745: 1,682 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/912745.md - Parcel 919621: 1,511 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/919621.md - Parcel 918801: 1,242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/918801.md - Parcel 955127: 732 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/955127.md - Parcel 5123012: 319 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5123012.md - Parcel 5122970: 70 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5122970.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Mountbrown 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 12 Sept 2025, Mayo County Council 2560629: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Planning application for the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, and connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560629/0 - 18 Mar 2025, Mayo County Council 25104: Conditional. Permission. renovating and extending existing derelict cottage, replacing existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system, constructing new vehicle entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/25104/0 - 12 Oct 2023, Mayo County Council 2360423: N/a. Outline permission. Outline planning application for new house, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360423/0 - 21 Apr 2023, Mayo County Council 23220: Refused. Outline permission. construction of a new dwelling house, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system and connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/23220/0 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 Mountbrown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA088-052: House - 17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA088-052----. 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. - MA088-060: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA088-060----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mountbrown. ## 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 Mountbrown, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_270, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_270.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/mountbrown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/mountbrown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/mountbrown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mountbrown 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) - Ballinvoy: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballinvoy.md - Ballyballinaun: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballyballinaun.md - Carrowkeel: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowkeel-150665.md - Coolloughra: https://everytownland.com/mayo/coolloughra-151106.md - Creggannaseer: https://everytownland.com/mayo/creggannaseer.md - Crowhill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/crowhill.md - Deerpark: https://everytownland.com/mayo/deerpark-151349.md - Derrygarve: https://everytownland.com/mayo/derrygarve-151425.md - Lugrevagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lugrevagh.md - Shanagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/shanagh.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/mountbrown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/mountbrown