Funshinaugh

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Funshinaugh, from 182 m² to 396,814 m² (39.68 ha, 98.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Funshinaugh 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.

• 8 Jun 2026Conditional

  Construction of a Dormer Dwelling with effluent treatment system along with site access & all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2660445

• 4 Feb 2025Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2533

• 21 May 2024Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, construction of a new proprietary sewage treatment system and all associated works at the above address

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460313

• 1 Jul 2021Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF FENCING, SOLAR PUMPS AND DRINKING TROUGHS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT HAS BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THIS PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21707

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 Funshinaugh.

Recorded monuments

• MA123-010 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA123-068 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1894, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed open windbreak. Reroofed. Replacement pitched reed thatch roof with exposed steel lattice stretchers to decorative raised ridge having exposed scallops, and concrete or rendered coping to gables with cement rendered dwarf chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots. Roughcast battered wall to front (east) elevation on rendered plinth with rendered strips to corners supporting rendered band to eaves; cement rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with concrete sills[?], and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber doors. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with rendered diagonal piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron gate.

• Castletown School House, school, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey school house, dated 1854; extant 1894, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Disused, 1894[?]. In ruins, 2003. "Restored", 2006, to accommodate proposed alternative use. For sale, 2009. Disused, 2010. Replacement pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan on strutted collared timber construction centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with ridge tiles, coping to gables with repointed chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, tooled cut-limestone coping to gable to porch with repointed tooled limestone ashlar bellcote to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Repointed snecked limestone walls originally rendered[?] with tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Paired square-headed central window openings below cut-limestone shield date stone ("1854") in tooled cut-limestone surround with cut-limestone sills, and tooled cut-limestone lintels framing replacement casement windows. Paired square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and tooled cut-limestone voussoirs framing replacement casement windows. Interior reconstructed, 2006, retaining hearths with tooled cut-limestone voussoirs. Set back from road in relandscaped 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 Funshinaugh, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Funshinaugh.

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

Name

Funshinaugh · Fuinseannach

Area

1,456,698 m² (145.67 ha, 359.96 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Houndswood, the unit of the census

Census 2022

659 people lived in 256 households in the Houndswood electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynalty, Bunnafollistran, Carheens, Castletown, Coolavally, Houndswood North

Placenames

Funshinaugh 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.