Mountbrown

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountbrown, from 70 m² to 154,511 m² (15.45 ha, 38.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Mountbrown 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.

• 12 Sept 2025Conditional

  Planning application for the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, and connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560629

• 18 Mar 2025Conditional

  renovating and extending existing derelict cottage, replacing existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system, constructing new vehicle entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25104

• 12 Oct 2023N/a

  Outline planning application for new house, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works.

  Outline permission · Mayo County Council, 2360423

• 21 Apr 2023Refused

  construction of a new dwelling house, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system and connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works

  Outline permission · Mayo County Council, 23220

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 Mountbrown.

Recorded monuments

• MA088-052 House - 17th century
  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.

• MA088-060 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 Mountbrown.

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 5 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_270 (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 Mountbrown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Mountbrown · Cnocán an Bhrúnaigh

Area

1,200,362 m² (120.04 ha, 296.62 acres)

Civil parish

Aghagower, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Aghagower North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghagower North electoral division: 1,070 people in 354 households; 88% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvoy, Ballyballinaun, Carrowkeel, Coolloughra, Creggannaseer, Crowhill, Deerpark, Derrygarve, Lugrevagh, Shanagh

Placenames

Mountbrown 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.