Holywell Lower

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Holywell Lower, from 56 m² to 145,460 m² (14.55 ha, 35.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Holywell Lower 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Holywell Lower 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.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Holywell Lower.

Recorded monuments

• MA103-003001 Church
  Description

  Adjacent to a holy well (MA103-003002). There is no visible trace of a church indicated on the 1916 OS 6-inch maps as ‘St. Patrick’s Church (Site of)’. Another church (MA102-002001-), a graveyard (MA103-002002-) and children’s burial ground (MA103-002003-) are located 300m to NW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 October 2022

• MA103-003002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In pasture, in a slight hollow enclosed at W and N by gently rising ground. A natural spring well gathering in a small pool (max. dim. c. 2m; D 0.2m), with an outflow stream flowing to SE where it is channelled into a modern field drain. The head of the spring at the N edge of the pool is now enclosed by a concrete pipe. Curving around the N side of the spring is a low stony rise set in the top of which is a small stone cross (MA103-003003-). An ash tree stands at the W end of the rise, on the NW side of the spring. Named ‘St. Patrick’s Well’ on the 1838 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps, a pattern or prayer cycle was traditionally held here each year on the first Sunday in August. ‘St. Patrick’s Church (Site of)’ (MA103-003001-) is indicated immediately to W of the well on the 1916 OS 6-inch map, but no remains are now visible. Another church (MA102-002001-), a graveyard (MA103-002002-) and a children’s burial ground (MA103-002003-) are located 300m to NW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 October 2022

• MA103-003003 Cross
  Description

  Located at a holy well (MA103-003001-) known as St. Patrick’s Well. This stone cross stands upright on a low stony rise that curves around the N side of the well. The cross (H 0.64m; Wth across arms 0.29m) is rather crudely shaped with short stubby arms that protrude no more than a few centimeters from the shaft (Wth 0.19m; T 0.12m). The top of the shaft rises 0.08m above the arms. The cross leans to NE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 October 2022

Architectural heritage

• Holywell House, farm house, 1700–1786 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over part raised basement farmhouse, extant 1786[?], on a symmetrical plan. Occupied, 1911. Undergoing "restoration", 2005. Now disused. Replacement pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having cut-limestone shallow stringcourses below capping supporting remains of terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Lime rendered or roughcast walls over snecked limestone construction with concealed cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of overgrown cut-limestone steps with drag edged dragged cut-limestone surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed cut-limestone voussoirs framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in unkempt grounds.

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 Holywell Lower, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_790 (ZIP).

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

Name

Holywell Lower · An Tobar Íochtarach

Area

957,123 m² (95.71 ha, 236.51 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballyhaunis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,531 people lived in 1,219 households in the Ballyhaunis electoral division. 53% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Churchpark, Cloontumper, Derreens, Drumaderry, Holywell Upper, Knockanarra, Lisduff, Pattenspark, Woodpark

Placenames

Holywell Lower 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.