Springfield
Townland in the civil parish of Aglish, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish Gort an Tobair
- Area
- 29.3 ha
- 72 acres
- Land parcels
- 360
- registered freehold, median 218 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
360 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Springfield, from 7 m² to 15,228 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 348 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Recreation & Amenities (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S1Education
Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Strategic Residential Reserve
Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Nov 2022Conditional
Construction of a proposed extension, comprised of sun room and granny flat, to an existing house, together with the necessary connections to public services and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22985
1 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW HOUSE, GARAGE, AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21571
12 Nov 2020Conditional
HOUSING SCHEME COMRISING STREET TERRACE OF 12 NO. TWO STOREY, THREE BED, SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES. COURTYARD ARRANGEMENT WITH 3 NO. BLOCKS OF THREE STOREY, DUPLEX HOUSING UNITS COMPRISING 15 NO. TWO BED, DUPLEX HOUSING UNITS OVER 15 NO. TWO BED, SINGLE LEVEL HOUSING UNITS. ACCESS ON EXISTING CHERRINGTON PLACE ROAD. ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, BIN STORAGE, SERVICES AND LANDSCAPING
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20896
26 Mar 2020Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT DWELLINGHOUSE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20210
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Springfield.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Springfield.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Springfield.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_341 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Springfield, Castlebar9 sales
The townland
- Name
- Springfield · Gort an Tobair
- Area
- 293,162 m² (29.32 ha, 72.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aglish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Castlebar Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlebar Rural electoral division: 7,935 people in 2,987 households; 68% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghalusky, Annalecka, Gorteendrunagh, Knockthomas, Moneenbradagh
- Placenames
- Springfield 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.