Prison North

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Prison North, from 25 m² to 108,835 m² (10.88 ha, 26.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 48 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 Prison North 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.

• 17 Dec 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: extension to the rear of the house less than 40sqm

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24517

• 26 May 2023Conditional

  construction of dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit and percolatoin area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23295

• 27 Apr 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360128

• 24 May 2022Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE ELEVATIONS TO INCLUDE FOR MINOR INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AS PART OF AN OVERALL RENOVATION, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22397

• 26 Sept 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19756

• 4 Mar 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALL A PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19140

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 Prison North.

Recorded monuments

• MA079-067 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• MA079-067001 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.

• MA079-068 Souterrain
  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.

• MA079-069 Ringfort - rath
  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

• Farm house, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement tenant farmhouse, extant 1838, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey lower central return (north). In occasional use, 1862. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1931. Renovated, 1985. Resold, 1999. Vacant, 2002. Undergoing "restoration", 2009-12. Hipped slate roof on collared timber construction centred on pitched slate roof (north) with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having red brick stringcourses below capping supporting crested pots, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed rendered red brick header bond eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Coursed rubble stone battered walls originally limewashed with squared rubble stone flush quoins to corners; remains of limewashed surface finish to side (west) elevation. Square-headed central door opening with red brick block-and-start surround framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement timber casement windows retaining three-over-six (ground floor) or one-over-one (first floor) timber sash windows to rear (north) elevation. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall-cum-staircase hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber "spindle" balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in turned timber newels, carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling; reception room (west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled shutters, and timber boarded ceiling; reception room (east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surround to window opening framing timber panelled shutters, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; kitchen (north) retaining hearth with tooled cut-limestone voussoirs; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors. Set in unkempt grounds.

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 Prison North, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Prison North.

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 Prison North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Prison North · An Príosún Thuaidh

Area

1,375,040 m² (137.5 ha, 339.78 acres)

Civil parish

Manulla, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Balla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,661 people lived in 631 households in the Balla electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinhoe, Carrowkeel, Drumadoon, Prison East, Prison South, Rathredmond, Rush Hill

Placenames

Prison North 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.