Deerpark
Deerpark is a townland in the civil parish of Burriscarra, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Páirc na bhFianna.
Parcel 4930238
- Area
- 56,644 m² (5.66 ha, 14 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Deerpark
Planning applications on this parcel
15 Oct 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 139.7 ha
- 345 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 41,186 m² (4.12 ha, 10.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Deerpark, from 1,383 m² to 176,500 m² (17.65 ha, 43.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Deerpark 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
18 May 2026Conditional
revision of original site boundaries approved by P25/514
Permission · Mayo County Council, 26110
18 Dec 2025Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment and disposal system and domestic garage together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25514
10 Dec 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all ancillary site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560904
15 Oct 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426
9 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission sought to construct extension to existing commercial premises along with associated siteworks including ancillary gravel yard to service proposed extension and gravel storage yard to rear of existing building
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460563
4 Jul 2022Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING GOODS INWARD AND SPRAY BOOTH EXTENSIONS, RETAIN CONCRETE YARDS, PERMISSION FOR NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, RELOCATING OF EXISTING ENTRANCES AND CONCRETE/BITUMEN HARD STANDING AREAS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22544
7 Jul 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17537
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: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
- Special Protection Area: Lough Carra SPA 004051
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774
Recorded monuments
- MA100-060 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In pasture, on high ground with slope to E. Circular mound (12.5m N-S; 11.4m E-W), enclosed by fosse (D 0.6m), with external bank (H 0.9m). External face of bank disturbed by animal burrowing, on the N. Site overgrown SW to N. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 44. Date of upload: 25 January 2013
- MA100-067 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, turlough to S and ridge to W. Oval-shaped area (72m N-S; 48m E-W), enclosed by two earthen banks, with intervening fosse. Inner bank (H 1.1m), levelled SE to S, and outer bank (H 0.5m) levelled N to S. Little remains of the interior, which has been heavily quarried. Stone field boundary bisects N of interior. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 155. Date of upload: 1 February 2013
- MA100-085 Enclosure
Description
In undulating pasture, on NE-facing slope, with extensive view to NW to NE. D-shaped area (37m N-S; 62m E-W), enclosed by low earthen bank (H 0.8m), levelled on N. Interior slopes downward, S and W, toward inner base of bank. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 154. Date of upload: 5 February 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Deerpark.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Deerpark, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Deerpark.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Deerpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Deerpark · Páirc na bhFianna
- Area
- 1,396,664 m² (139.67 ha, 345.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Burriscarra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Burriscarra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 453 people lived in 166 households in the Burriscarra electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycally, Ballyglass, Carrowlisdooaun, Carrownahaltore, Castlecarra, Drumnashinnagh, Stuckeen, Towerhill Demesne
- Placenames
- Deerpark 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.