Scotchfort

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scotchfort, from 3,188 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) to 124,934 m² (12.49 ha, 30.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Scotchfort 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.

• 22 Mar 2022Conditional

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED (FRONT ELEVATION) AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 22230

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

• MA039-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a low rise with a gentle SE-facing slope. A circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.2m at NW) and a fosse (Wth 4m), with an external bank (Wth 1.7m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.6m) at SE–NW. The inner bank is best preserved on the NW half, but has been reduced to a scarp on the SE half. The fosse is well defined around the full circuit. The external bank can be traced only on the W half, and is rather low and insubstantial in appearance, except for a short section on the SE arc which is noticeably broader (Wth 2.5m). Traces of an old farm trackway (shown on the 1930 OS 6-inch map) skirt the rath at SW–NW immediately outside the external bank. It is possible that the external bank is not an original feature, but a later field boundary enclosing the rath, or it may constitute the remnants of an original bank or counterscarp which was modified in recent times. A break (Wth 2m) in the inner bank at NE, largely obscured by overgrowth, may mark an original entrance. There is another break or low area (Wth 2.4m) at N. The rath is ringed with hawthorn and holly trees, and the interior is engulfed in a dense thicket of brambles. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 February 2020

• MA039-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on N–S elevation, providing good views, especially to E and S, of the surrounding gently undulating terrain. This rath is shown on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps as an oval embanked enclosure (c. 25m NW–SE; c. 20m NE–SW). It has been levelled. The outline can still be traced as a low circular undulation (c. 20m NNW–SSE; c. 18m ENE–WSW), clipped on the NW side by a property boundary on a NNE–SSW axis. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 February 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Scotchfort, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Scotchfort · Ráth na nAlbanach

Area

632,407 m² (63.24 ha, 156.27 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbelfad, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Carrowmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

896 people lived in 323 households in the Carrowmore electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappanaglogh, Cloonacauna, Cloonygunnaun, Garrycloonagh, Rathbaun, Rathduff

Placenames

Scotchfort 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.