Springvale
Townland in the civil parish of Ballinrobe, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Gleann an Tobair
- Area
- 11.1 ha
- 27 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 3,665 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Springvale, from 2,055 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 42,982 m² (4.3 ha, 10.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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
No zone of a development plan covers Springvale 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Springvale in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Springvale.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Springvale.
Architectural heritage
- Springvale House, farm house, 1700–1814 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1814, on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor. Leased, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Renovated, ----. Hipped slate roof on an E-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone wall to front (north) elevation originally rendered with rough cut limestone flush quoins to corners; cement rendered surface finish (remainder) bellcast over rendered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening into farmhouse with concealed dressings having concave reveals framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone voussoirs framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six or eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rusticated limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having overgrown capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed wrought iron double gates.
- Mill (water), 1700–1838 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay four-storey mill, extant 1838, with two-bay full-height side elevations. In use, 1911. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Coursed rubble limestone battered walls with tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings (upper floors) with hammered limestone lintels framing three-over-six or three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Set in own grounds with lichen-covered cut-limestone monolithic piers to perimeter supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed wrought iron double gates.
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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Springvale.
- 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
No address of the register names Springvale with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Springvale · Gleann an Tobair
- Area
- 110,771 m² (11.08 ha, 27.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinrobe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Ballinrobe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballinrobe electoral division: 4,118 people in 1,517 households; 62% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Creagh Demesne, Gorteenlynagh, Kilkeeran
- Placenames
- Springvale 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.