Magherafadda
Magherafadda is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyhean, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Machaire Fada.
Parcel 882006
- Area
- 1,090 m²
- 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
- Magherafadda
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 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
- 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.
- 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
- 70.2 ha
- 174 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 2,939 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Village Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magherafadda, from 67 m² to 155,047 m² (15.5 ha, 38.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Jun 2025Conditional
Change of house type to that previously granted under planning application P24/60539, and all associated site works at the above address.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560413
29 Aug 2024Conditional
Planning permission originally sought in 2019 (Ref. No. P18/569) to construct a detached dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank/treatment system, and all associated site works at the above address.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460539
29 Aug 2019Conditional
EXTEND AND RENOVATE EXISTING HABITABLE HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19674
26 Jul 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18569
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Magherafadda.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Magherafadda.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magherafadda.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Magherafadda.
- 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 Magherafadda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Magherafadda · An Machaire Fada
- Area
- 702,136 m² (70.21 ha, 173.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyhean, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Cloonkeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 779 people lived in 294 households in the Cloonkeen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cornaveagh, Derrygarve East, Derrynagooley, Drumloughra, Kinturk Lower, Kinturk Upper, Magheranagay, Westland
- Placenames
- Magherafadda 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.