Friarsquarter East

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Friarsquarter East, from 590 m² to 335,533 m² (33.55 ha, 82.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Friarsquarter East 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.

• 14 Dec 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEWAGE TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20985

• 9 Aug 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17643

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 Friarsquarter East.

Recorded monuments

• MA118-007 Religious house - Knights Hospitallers
  Description

  In undulating pasture. Church of St. John the Baptist, belonging to Knights Hospitallers; conservation work carried out in 1414, afterwards granted to Augustinian Friars (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 339). Very poor remains of structure containing at least two sectors (8.8m N-S; 2.5m E-W and 4m N-S; 4.1m E-W). Various sod-covered foundations around the site. 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. 618. Date of upload: 11 November 2013

• MA118-164 Burnt mound
  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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Friarsquarter East.

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 Friarsquarter East, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_369 (ZIP).

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

Name

Friarsquarter East · Ceathrú na mBráthar Thoir

Area

901,995 m² (90.2 ha, 222.89 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinrobe, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Ballinrobe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,118 people lived in 1,517 households in the Ballinrobe electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawn, Caheredmond, Cloongowla, Friarsquarter West, Levally

Placenames

Friarsquarter East 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.