# Scotchfort, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilbelfad, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Ráth na nAlbanach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 632,407 m² (63.24 ha, 156.27 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,289 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilbelfad, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilbelfad.md
- Barony: Tirawley
- Electoral division: Carrowmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34319
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152868
- Centre: latitude 54.083117, longitude -9.229888 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 904063: 124,934 m² (12.49 ha, 30.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904063.md
- Parcel 5401649: 112,295 m² (11.23 ha, 27.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5401649.md
- Parcel 991926: 65,723 m² (6.57 ha, 16.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/991926.md
- Parcel 898857: 62,125 m² (6.21 ha, 15.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/898857.md
- Parcel 908798: 53,612 m² (5.36 ha, 13.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/908798.md
- Parcel 874466: 48,032 m² (4.8 ha, 11.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/874466.md
- Parcel 899919: 47,975 m² (4.8 ha, 11.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/899919.md
- Parcel 963935: 38,195 m² (3.82 ha, 9.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/963935.md
- Parcel 981395: 18,028 m² (1.8 ha, 4.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/981395.md
- Parcel 938058: 12,289 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/938058.md
- Parcel 5160735: 11,582 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5160735.md
- Parcel 3892429: 7,612 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3892429.md
- Parcel 3892432: 6,662 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3892432.md
- Parcel 5401646: 4,859 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5401646.md
- Parcel 921811: 4,134 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/921811.md
- Parcel 2482488: 3,917 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2482488.md
- Parcel 5296559: 3,295 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5296559.md
- Parcel 2482486: 3,209 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2482486.md
- Parcel 2723006: 3,188 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2723006.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 22 Mar 2022, Mayo County Council 22230: Conditional. Retention. RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED (FRONT ELEVATION) AND DOMESTIC GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/22230/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC, site code 002298, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002298
- Special Protection Area: Lough Conn and Lough Cullin SPA, site code 004228, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004228
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Conn And Lough Cullin, site code 000519

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA039-034: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA039-034----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA039-035----. 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

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 Scotchfort.

## 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 Scotchfort, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Scotchfort.
- 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/scotchfort.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/scotchfort.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/scotchfort.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Scotchfort 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)

- Cappanaglogh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cappanaglogh.md
- Cloonacauna: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonacauna.md
- Cloonygunnaun: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonygunnaun.md
- Garrycloonagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/garrycloonagh.md
- Rathbaun: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rathbaun-152721.md
- Rathduff: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rathduff-152728.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.

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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.

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