Oxford

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oxford, from 47 m² to 275,957 m² (27.6 ha, 68.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Oxford 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.

• 2 Jun 2026N/a

  alterations and extension to dwelling house along with ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26120

• 12 Jan 2021Conditional

  RETENTION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AS BUILT, RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS BUILT, ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2111

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• MA080-026001 Church
  Description

  Within a graveyard (MA080-026002-) located on a low knoll with a steep slope W–NW. This medieval parish church, probably dating to the 15th/16th century, is named ‘Kilkinure Church’ on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps. It survives as a ruinous rectangular building (c. 7m N–S; c.18.25m E–W) with walls (T c. 1.1m) constructed of mortared, random sandstone rubble, incorporating large, squarish blocks interspersed with horizontally laid slabs. The N wall no longer stands and much of its line is overlain by 19th- century graves. The NE angle stands to a height of c. 3m. The S half of the E wall survives only as wall footings, incorporating at the SE angle a tree stump. The E half of the S wall stands to a height of c. 2m; the W half of the S wall no longer stands, although wall footings may survive at the SW angle. The W wall stands to a height of over 3m externally (c. 2m int.). No windows or doorways survive. There is a recess (H 0.6m; Wth 0.45m; D 0.48m), lined with large stone slabs, at the E end of the N wall. In the internal face of the W wall, there is a row of five putlog-holes at a height of 1m above present ground level. The interior of the church has an uneven surface, and is densely covered by graves and loose rubble. Some graves overlie the foundations of the N and S walls. A rectangular grave plot (4.5m N–S; 3.75m E–W) of the modern era is appended to the external face of the S wall. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2021

• MA080-026002 Graveyard
  Description

  In undulating pasture, c. 500m to SW of Kiltimagh town, located on a low knoll with a steep slope W–NW. The earliest part of the graveyard encompassed the top and slopes of the knoll where the medieval church (MA080-026001-) is located. It is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an irregular-shaped enclosed area accessed at SE by a narrow lane. In the late 19th- /early 20th-century the graveyard was extended to the SE and later in the 20th century it was extended further to the NE and E. The oldest part of the graveyard is densely covered with graves, aligned E–W, many in close-set N–S rows. The majority consist of horizontal, uninscribed stone slabs with associated headstones. Many of the headstones are roughly shaped, and uninscribed. The inscribed headstones mostly date to the 19th century, with one possibly dated to the late 18th century. Many 20th-century graves are intermixed with the earlier graves. The ground surface is uneven, and to W and NW many of the graves are terraced into the natural slope. The graveyard was gravelled over in the late 20th-century. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2021

• MA080-026003 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.

• MA080-055 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In lowlying wet pasture, which was subjected to land reclamation and drainage in the late1980’s. This fulacht fia was discovered in 1988 during reclamation works. A drainage trench was dug across the short axis of the mound, damaging the stone-lined trough. It consisted of a semi-circular mound (14m N–S; 6m E–W; H 0.7m) of burnt stone, burnt clay and black soil. Some of the stones (c. 1m x c.0.6m) which lined the trough were displaced, and it could be seen that they were heavily coated on one face with burnt clay. (SMR file, 1988). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 December 2021

Architectural heritage

• Oxford House, farm house, 1700–1777 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1777, on a symmetrical plan. Sold, 1831. Occupied, 1901. Sold, 1906[?]. Occupied, 1911. Vacated, 1977. Derelict, 1996. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now missing with rendered chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below lichen-covered capping supporting terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on overgrown cut-limestone eaves. Ivy-covered rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills now missing, and red brick block-and-start surrounds now missing with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set back from line of road in unkempt grounds.

• Bridge, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838. Part ivy-covered walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (west) elevation having pyramidal capping with lichen-covered rough hewn limestone soldier course coping to parapets. Series of four segmental arches with lichen-covered cut-limestone voussoirs. Sited spanning Geestaun River or Pollagh River with unkempt banks to river.

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

About 1 in 10 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 Oxford.

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.

No address of the register names Oxford with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Oxford · An Ballán

Area

1,297,592 m² (129.76 ha, 320.64 acres)

Civil parish

Killedan, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Ballinamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinamore electoral division: 342 people in 118 households; 89% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinamore, Carrownageeragh, Carrowreagh, Cloonkedagh, Gortgarve, Kiltamagh, Knocknaskeagh, Treannagleragh

Placenames

Oxford 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.