Prison South

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Prison South, from 253 m² to 169,741 m² (16.97 ha, 41.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 South 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.

• 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

• 1 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, UPGRADING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21698

• 19 Aug 2019Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS BUILT AND COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19643

• 28 Mar 2019Refused

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 19217

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 South.

Recorded monuments

• MA079-070 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Prison South.

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 South, 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 low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Prison South · An Príosún Theas

Area

1,025,970 m² (102.6 ha, 253.52 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

Ballinagran, Dooros, Drumadoon, Legaun, Prison East, Prison North

Placenames

Prison South 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.