Doogary
Townland in the civil parish of Aghamore, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish Dúdhoire
- Area
- 178 ha
- 440 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 13,736 m² (1.37 ha, 3.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doogary, from 246 m² to 262,652 m² (26.27 ha, 64.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Doogary 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
27 Jul 2026N/a
replacement of the existing septic tank serving the dwelling house with a proprietary wastewater treatment system, and all ancillary works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660600
25 Mar 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: Entrance to property can be used as a permanent entrance
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2475
17 Jul 2023Conditional
construction of a new domestic garage along with ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23399
3 Apr 2023Conditional
construct 1 no. poultry house and 1 no. manure loading/general purpose store together with all ancillary structures (to include 2 no. meal storage bins and 2 no. soiled water tanks) and site works (to include upgraded site entrance) associated with the development
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23185
29 Mar 2021Conditional
Retain dwelling house on revised site boundaries, and to install a packaged wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, together with all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Mayo County Council, 21275
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 Doogary.
Recorded monuments
- MA081-006 Enclosure
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.
- MA081-007001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, located on top of a low NW–SE ridge. There are extensive views N−SE, where ground falls steeply to lowlying, rush-grown wet pasture. Ground rises slightly to SW. This rath is named ‘Derrymeel Fort’ on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a circular platform (34m E–W; 31.5m N–S) defined by a scarp, and enclosed by a fosse with an external earthen bank, outside which is a second fosse with an external bank. The platform scarp (ext. H 2.9m at NE, 2.3m at SW) is high and well defined with a hint of a raised internal lip at S and SW. The innermost fosse (Wth 3m at SW) is flat-based and well defined, with a well preserved bank (Wth 7.5m; int. H 1.75m; ext. H 2.5m at SW) on its outer edge at E–NW. Both are truncated by quarrying at NNW–N, and from N–E they take the form of a broad terrace (Wth 6m) with a well defined external scarp (ext. H 2.55m at NE). The second fosse (Wth 2.5-3m) is clearly defined at S−WNW, evident as a slight depression, marked by a growth of yellow iris, at N–NE and is barely discernible at E–S. The outermost bank (Wth 6.7m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.45m at SW) survives on the W half of the rath, where it has a broad external slump, but is levelled on the E half, except for a discrete section at NE which is partly incorporated into a later field fence. The entrance is marked by a slumped section (Wth c. 4m) of scarp at E leading to a ramp-like causeway (Wth 5m) across the two fosses with corresponding gaps in the two outer banks. The entrance gives onto the sloping spine of the ridge which forms a natural routeway to the rath. The interior has a slight slope from centre to NNE and E. An L-shaped depression close to the scarp in the NE quadrant appears to be a collapsed souterrain (MA081-007002-). A straight field fence, on a NE–SW axis, crosses the two outer banks and their intervening fosses at E side, and blocks the entrance causeway. A barely discernible rise (Wth c. 1.5m) 1.2m outside the outermost bank at SW–W may be the remnants of a field boundary. There are discrete areas of quarrying/disturbance in the external face of the platform scarp at SSE, in the inner face of the middle bank at S, and in the inner face of the outermost bank at SSE and NW. Grass-covered, with few hawthorn bushes scattered around the perimeter. A cairn (MA081-007003-) is located c. 30m to SE on the same ridge. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 December 2021
- MA081-007002 Souterrain
Description
Located in the NE quadrant of a rath (MA081-007001-). An L-shaped depression (Wth 2.8m; D 0.5m) extends NNW–SSE for 9m along the NNE edge of the rath platform. At its SSE end it takes a right angled turn to SSW, narrowing slightly (Wth1.8m) as it extends for 8m through the rath interior. Stones protrude randomly from the sod along the length of the depression. It may be a collapsed souterrain passage. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 December 2021
- MA081-007003 Cairn - unclassified
Description
In pasture, located at the SE end of a low NW–SE ridge. The ground falls steeply to N and E to lowlying, rush-grown wet pasture. A sod-covered, sub-circular mound (diam. c. 3.5-4m; H 0.6m at SSW, 1m at NNE). A denuded section at E reveals a concentration of small stones suggesting that it may be a field clearance cairn. A telegraph pole is adjacent at E. There is a rath (MA081-007001-) 35m to WNW on the same ridge. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 December 2021
- MA081-049 Burnt mound
Description
In flat expanse of wettish pasture, 12m SW of a stream/drain. Low grass-covered, irregular-shaped rise (c. 5m E-W; 5m N-S; H 0.3m). There is dark grey-black soil beneath the sod but no stone fragments were visible. The nature of this feature is uncertain. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 December 2021
Architectural heritage
- Doogary National School, school, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay single-storey national school, dated 1897; extant 1901, on a symmetrical plan. Closed, 1973. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on timber construction with clay ridge tiles centred on rendered chimney stack having lichen-covered cut-limestone chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging timber boarded eaves having timber consoles with no rainwater goods to rear (west) elevation on exposed timber rafters. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings centred on rusticated date stone ("1897") with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows behind iron mesh panels. Square-headed flanking door openings with concrete steps supporting wrought iron bootscrapers, and rendered surrounds framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Road fronted.
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
- 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doogary.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Doogary with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Doogary · Dúdhoire
- Area
- 1,780,029 m² (178 ha, 439.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghamore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Kilkelly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilkelly electoral division: 961 people in 382 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnahesker, Bruff, Caher, Clooncah, Lismaganshion, Lismeegaun, Lisnagross, Lurgan
- Placenames
- Doogary 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.