Farmhill

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farmhill, from 40 m² to 262,097 m² (26.21 ha, 64.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Farmhill 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.

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  The development will consist of the construction of a private dwelling house, domestic garage and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660516

• 2 Mar 2026Conditional

  Planning Permission to: 1. Retain the existing extension and the current first-floor layout to the dwelling house 2. Install Two new fire-escape windows at first-floor level of dwelling house 3. Retain the existing extension to the domestic garage all as per drawing documents submitted, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660167

• 2 Oct 2023Refused

  Planning Permission for change of use from domestic garage to residential unit all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360407

• 25 Sept 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct dwelling house, garage and foul effluent treatment system all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360392

• 8 Sept 2022Conditional

  WORKS TO REFURBISH THE EXISTING CASTLEBAR-CLOON 110kV OVERHEAD LINE WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY 57KM LONG, AND COMPRISES 252 NO. WOODEN POLESETS AND 40 NO. STEEL ANGLE MASTS BETWEEN THE EXISTING CASTLEBAR 110kV SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF AGHALUSKY, AND THE EXISTING CLOON 110kV SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CLOONASCRAGH, CO. GALWAY. APPROXIMATELY 20KM OF THE EXISTING CIRCUIT IS LOCATED WITHIN THE FUNCTIONAL AREA OF GALWAY COUNTY COUNCIL AND APPROXIMATELY 37KM IN THE FUNCTIONAL AREA OF MAYO COUNTY COUNCIL

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22780

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 Farmhill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farmhill.

Architectural heritage

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

  Detached five-bay two-storey double-pile farmhouse, extant 1786, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor on an elliptical bowed plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (north-west). "Improved", pre-1893, producing present composition. Vacant, 1901. Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated. Hipped slate roofs on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped slate roof (north-west) with pressed or rolled iron ridges, paired rendered central chimney stacks centred on rendered chimney stack on axis with ridge having cut-limestone stringcourses below chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves boards on overhanging eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed central door opening approached by flight of four lichen-covered cut-limestone steps with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement four-over-four timber sash windows having overpanels. Square-headed window openings centred on square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (first floor) with square-headed window openings to rear (north-west) elevation centred on round-headed window opening (half-landing), cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement six-over-six timber sash windows centred on two-over-two timber sash window having four-over-four sidelights with one-over-one timber sash windows to rear (north-west) elevation centred on six-over-six timber sash window having fanlight. Interior including (ground floor): vestibule with timber panelled shutters to window openings; door opening into entrance hall with timber panelled double doors having overlight; 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 landscaped grounds including "haha".

• Carradoyne House, farmyard complex, 1841–1893 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, extant 1893, including: Detached three-bay single-storey coach house with half-attic on a symmetrical plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on timber batons on collared timber construction with ridge tiles now missing, and no rainwater goods surviving on timber eaves boards. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls with hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with tooled hammered limestone lintel framing timber boarded door. Camber- or segmental-headed flanking carriageways with tooled hammered limestone voussoirs. Square-headed window openings (half-attic) with cut-limestone sills, and tooled hammered limestone lintels with no fittings surviving. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Carradoyne House.

• Carradoyne House, walled garden, 1841–1893 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1893, with coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping. Now disused. Set in grounds shared with Carradoyne House.

• Carradoyne House, gate lodge, 1841–1893 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1893, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch with single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey central return (north-west). Now disused. Hipped slate roof on a cruciform plan centred on half-polygonal slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on chimney stack having stringcourse below chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pot, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Rendered walls. Central door opening with fittings not visible. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Carradoyne House with overgrown piers to perimeter supporting wrought iron double gates.

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 Farmhill, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Farmhill · Cnoc na Feirme

Area

764,558 m² (76.46 ha, 188.93 acres)

Civil parish

Crossboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Garrymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

473 people lived in 177 households in the Garrymore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brookhill, Cloonbonniff, Coolroe, Kilmacanelly, Knockananeel

Placenames

Farmhill 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.