Woodfield
Townland in the civil parish of Aghamore, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cluain Mhic Coiligh
- Area
- 143.6 ha
- 355 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 12,545 m² (1.25 ha, 3.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodfield, from 141 m² to 104,066 m² (10.41 ha, 25.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Woodfield 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
19 Apr 2018Conditional
RESTORE, RENOVATE AND EXTEND EXISTING COTTAGE RUIN, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18269
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
- MA081-050 Burnt mound
Description
In pasture, located on the S bank of River Trimoge, overlooked by low ridge c. 50m to SW. Heat-shattered sandstone fragments in a charcoal-rich matrix are visible in section of the river bank at a point where the river bank has been cut back to create a cattle watering hole. The layer (D 0.2-0.4m) of burnt material is visible beneath a layer (D 0.1-0.15m) of sod on both the E and W side of the U-shaped cut away area (8m N-S; 8.5m E-W) in the river bank. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 December 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Woodfield.
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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Woodfield.
- 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 Woodfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Woodfield · Cluain Mhic Coiligh
- Area
- 1,436,469 m² (143.65 ha, 354.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghamore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Kilkelly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilkelly electoral division: 961 people in 382 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloontarriff, Cloonturk, Derrybrack, Derrycashel, Derrycoosh, Derryool, Lisnagross, Rinn
- Placenames
- Woodfield 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.