Dadreen

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dadreen, from 820 m² to 1,852,262 m² (185.23 ha, 457.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Dadreen 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.

• 29 Apr 2026Conditional

  (1) THE RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF EXISTING EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) THE UPGRADE OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK TO A PROPRIETARY TREATMENT UNIT AND ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION BED, TOGETHER WITH ALL SITE SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660338

• 15 Sept 2025Conditional

  construct a dry bedded agricultural/machinery shed in existing farm yard together with associated site services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25394

• 22 Jul 2024Conditional

  install 6 glamping pods, convert existing barn to reception building to include toilet, office, common room, kitchen/dining, renovate existing stone building to include shower room, games room and storage, car/bike parking and landscaping, construct a dry bedded agricutural/machinery shed with connection to effluent treatment system services together with associated site services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24295

• 27 Mar 2023Conditional

  Alterations to existing dwelling house to provide an independent living unit/granny flat, and all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23165

• 28 Jul 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND PROPRIETARY TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES, PREVIOUS PLANNING REF. P06/3616

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22638

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Mweelrea/Sheeffry/Erriff Complex SAC 001932
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mweelrea/Sheeffry/Erriff Complex 001932

Recorded monuments

• MA105-013 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, located on a terrace on a SW-facing slope. This cashel is named ‘Cahervilla’ on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps, and is indicated as a roughly oval enclosure (c. 65m NW−SE; c. 50m NE−SW) incorporated into later field boundaries. Subdivisions within the interior, and a rectangular building at the NE edge of the enclosure, are indicated on the 1838 map; these are not shown on the 1919 edition. The cashel has been levelled; a modern dwelling stands in the SE half, and a roadway, bordered by a drystone wall, skirts what was the W side of the enclosure. A cross-slab (MA105-015----) stands in the N half, though this may not be its original location. The large size of the enclosure, coupled with its association with the cross-slab, raises the possibility that the enclosure may have been ecclesiastical in nature. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 October 2017

• MA105-015 Cross-inscribed pillar
  Description

  In pasture, located on a small natural terrace, broken by rock out-cropping, on a SW-facing slope. Though currently located within a levelled cashel (MA105-013----), this may not always have been the case: according to local information, the cross-slab was moved in relatively recent years to its current location from a spot a short distance upslope in the same field. Upright stone slab (H 1.85m; max Wth 0.55m; T 0.1-0.15m), long axis aligned N−S, bearing a carving of an equal-armed cross on the W face. The slab is roughly rectangular in shape. It is 0.48m wide at the base, expands gently to 0.55m in the middle and narrows to 0.4m at top. The top is slanting, with the highest point at S. The cross is located towards the top of the slab, 0.4m below the top peak. A shallow horizontal groove extends across the width of the slab marking the top of the rectangular panel pecked out to create the cross (H 0.45m; Wth 0.4m) in shallow false relief. The arms of the cross curve outwards gently to expanded terminals. The horizontal arms extend to almost the full width of the slab, leaving a gap of 2-3cms at the outer edge of the stone on either side. The terminals of the horizontal arms expand to a width of 0.12-0.13m. The terminals of the vertical arms are slightly wider, 0.15m at top and 0.17m at base/foot. A short stem or projection (Wth 0.02m; H 0.04m) descends from the centre of the foot of the cross. Though intended as an equal-armed cross, it is somewhat asymmetrical in execution, with the upper vertical arm and the right-hand horizontal arm being slightly longer than the other two arms. Herity (1989, 97-98) suggests a date in the seventh century for the cross. He notes that this type of cross is not uncommon in carvings and manuscripts, but mentions, in particular, the similarity with the expanded-arm cross on the Dolphins cross-slab (MA094-003041-) on Caher Island, Co. Mayo, and a cross-in-circle on an ogham stone (KE025-002----) on Mount Brandon in Arraglen, Co. Kerry, which also has a short stem at the foot of the cross. Images: MA105-015----_01.JPG W face of the cross-slab MA105-015----_02.JPG Close-up of carving of cross Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 October 2017

• MA105-022 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on a terrace on an undulating W-facing slope. There is a stream 30m to N. The location provides widespread views of lowlying pastureland from SW−NW, with the Atlantic in the distance at SW and NW. This possible enclosure is not shown on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a slightly raised, roughly circular area (diam. 10.5-11m) defined by a scarp. Stones can be felt underfoot or protrude in parts around the scarp. The W arc of the scarp (H 0.4m at SW, 0.7m at NW) is most clearly defined, and has a slight internal lip at top, suggesting the remains of an enclosing wall. The scarp at SE appears somewhat expanded, with two large stones protruding on the external face; it may incorporate field clearance stones. There is a break (Wth 2m) at NE and another (Wth 1.5-2m) at SSE. The grass-covered remains are poorly defined, but appear to represent the remnants of a small enclosure of uncertain date and function. It occupies a natural rise, and it is unclear to what extent its outline may reflect underlying bedrock. A loose cairn of field clearance stones, not grass-covered, lies immediately adjacent at NE. Remnants of a relict field wall, consisting of a roughly N-S row of contiguous large stones, lie 3m to E. Relict cultivation ridges are visible, on varying orientations, throughout the surrounding field. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 November 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dadreen.

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

Name

Dadreen · Dhá dTrian

Area

3,547,209 m² (354.72 ha, 876.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgeever, and its townlands

Barony

Murrisk

Electoral division

Owennadornaun, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigskeewaun, Claggan, Doovilra, Glenconnelly, Kinnakillew, Lackakeely, Mweelin

Placenames

Dadreen 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.