Dooghbeg
Townland in the civil parish of Burrishoole, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Dumhach Bheag
- Area
- 726 ha
- 1,794 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 4,858 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooghbeg, from 45 m² to 6,738,468 m² (673.85 ha, 1,665.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 3 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 Dooghbeg 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
14 Nov 2025Conditional
The development will consist of construction of a private dwelling house and propriety effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works. This application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement.
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 2560814
30 May 2025N/a
The development will consist of construction of a private dwelling house and propriety effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works. This application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560346
19 Dec 2024N/a
The development will consist of construction of a private dwelling house and propriety effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works. This application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460791
22 Nov 2018Conditional
RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SHED WITH UPGRADE TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA INCLUDING RETENTION OF ACCESS, BOUNDARIES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS/SERVICES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 18939
24 Oct 2018Conditional
CONVERT ATTIC SPACE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION, TO INCLUDE NEW STAIRS, RECONFIGURATION OF INTERNAL LAYOUT AND NEW ROOFLIGHTS IN EXISTING HIPPED ROOF, P96/414 REFERS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18827
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Corraun Plateau SAC 000485
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Corraun Plateau 000485
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dooghbeg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dooghbeg.
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 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 Dooghbeg.
- 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 Dooghbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Dooghbeg · An Dumhach Bheag
- Area
- 7,259,995 m² (726 ha, 1,793.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Burrishoole, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Corraun, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Corraun electoral division: 712 people in 279 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bolinglanna, Cartron, Cuillaloughaun, Cushlecka
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Dooghbeg 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.