Cherryfield

99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cherryfield, from 24 m² to 118,220 m² (11.82 ha, 29.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 87 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserver Tier I (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6Infrastructure & Utilities (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  Proposed extension to an existing property and construction of a detached garage and replacement of existing property roof

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560233

• 17 Feb 2025Conditional

  retain existing extension to side of dwelling house and to construct a new extension to the rear, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2553

• 2 Jun 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission to erect mural paintings on existing west boundary fence of Old Scouts Den building all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360202

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 Cherryfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cherryfield.

Architectural heritage

• Ballyhaunis Railway Station, foot bridge, 1878–1893 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch footbridge over railway line, extant 1893. Set in grounds shared with Ballyhaunis Railway Station spanning railing line.

• Ballyhaunis Railway Station, signal box, 1860–1893 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay single-stage over raised base gable-fronted signal box, extant 1893. Now disused. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in red brick Running bond chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on box eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls (base) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone quoins to corners; "weather boarded" timber surface finish (cabin). Square-headed "monitor window" (cabin) with timber sills, and timber mullions framing fixed-pane timber fittings. Interior retaining levers. Set on tarmacadam platform in grounds shared with Ballyhaunis.

• Ballyhaunis Railway Station, building misc, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay single-stage water tower, commissioned 1861[?]; extant 1893, on a square plan. Decommissioned, 1965. Now disused. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with drag edged rock faced cut-limestone flush quoins to corners supporting cast-iron water tank on lichen-covered tooled cut-limestone "cornice". Round-headed window opening with cut-limestone sill, and drag edged rock faced cut-limestone block-and-start surround framing timber boarded fitting behind wrought iron bars. Set on tarmacadam platform in grounds shared with Ballyhaunis Railway Station.

• Ballyhaunis Railway Station, store/warehouse, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height goods store, commissioned 1861[?]; extant 1893, with four-bay double-height platform (south) elevation. Decommissioned, 1975. Now disused. Pitched slate roof extending into lean-to slate roofs on timber spandrels on drag edged tooled cut-limestone ogee corbels with roll moulded clay ridge tiles terminating in drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar chimney stack having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pot, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with drag edged rock faced cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Series of three segmental-headed openings with series of four segmental-headed openings to platform (south) elevation, lichen-covered limestone ashlar or yellow brick header bond voussoirs framing timber boarded doors. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Ballyhaunis Railway Station.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_864 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Cherryfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cherryfield · Gort na Silíní

Area

289,208 m² (28.92 ha, 71.46 acres)

Civil parish

Bekan, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballyhaunis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyhaunis electoral division: 3,531 people in 1,219 households; 53% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyquarter, Carrowreagh, Clagnagh, Devlis, Friarsground, Pollnacroaghy

Placenames

Cherryfield 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.