Mace Upper
Mace Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Más Uachtarach.
Parcel 940234
- Area
- 2,065 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- 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
- Mace Upper
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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
- 143.1 ha
- 354 acres
- Land parcels
- 81
- registered freehold, median 4,235 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mace Upper, from 153 m² to 102,403 m² (10.24 ha, 25.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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
No zone of a development plan covers Mace Upper 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Aug 2026Conditional
(1) A two-storey extension to the front of the existing building including a new reception, classroom, function room, water closets, and offices. (2) A single storey extension to the rear of the existing building including a new storage room and water closet. (3) Alterations to the internal layout of the existing building. (4) The upgrade of the existing septic tank system to a proprietary effluent treatment system, along with all associated site development works at the above address.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660637
31 Mar 2025Conditional
permission for extensions and alterations to existing national school together with all associated services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25119
22 Apr 2024Conditional
construct horse stables together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24122
19 Dec 2023Conditional
Retention of a domestic garage and all ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360547
28 Sept 2017Conditional
EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING NATIONAL SCHOOL AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17770
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 Mace Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mace Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mace Upper.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Mace Upper, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mace Upper.
- 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 Mace Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Mace Upper · An Más Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,431,313 m² (143.13 ha, 353.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Electoral division
- Murneen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 372 people lived in 149 households in the Murneen electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyfarnagh, Ballynabrehon North, Ballynabrehon South, Corbally, Mace Middle, Murneen South, Rockfield
- Placenames
- Mace Upper 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.