Fairfield Lower

100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fairfield Lower, from 79 m² to 230,406 m² (23.04 ha, 56.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 55 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 Fairfield Lower 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.

• 18 Jun 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the demolishing of the existing dwelling house & the construction of a replacement dwelling house previous planning granted under P04/1120. Including all other ancillary site work and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460369

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  change of house type granted under P20/548, including all other ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23683

• 2 Mar 2023Conditional

  demolish of existing dwelling and construction of 1 no. dwelling house and garage, with new wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, including all other ancillary site work and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23111

• 25 Jul 2022Conditional

  (1) Demolish existing derelict storage shed (2) Proposed construction of a loose shed, walled silage slab and cattle handling facility shed along with all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22615

• 6 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20548

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 Fairfield Lower.

Recorded monuments

• MA029-007 Ringfort - rath
  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 Fairfield Lower.

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 Fairfield Lower, 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 Fairfield Lower.

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

Name

Fairfield Lower · An Cnocán Bán Íochtarach

Area

1,978,371 m² (197.84 ha, 488.87 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfian, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Fortland, the unit of the census

Census 2022

556 people lived in 192 households in the Fortland electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacloy, Fairfield Upper, Rathglass, Rathnamagh, Treanagh, Woodville

Placenames

Fairfield Lower 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.