Dookinelly (Calvy)
Townland in the civil parish of Achill, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Dumha Cinn Aille (Calvy)
- Area
- 784.9 ha
- 1,940 acres
- Land parcels
- 235
- registered freehold, median 3,690 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
235 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dookinelly (Calvy), from 31 m² to 3,431,390 m² (343.14 ha, 847.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 60 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 Dookinelly (Calvy) 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
15 Mar 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A 3 BAY ENCLOSED DRY BEDDED SHEEP SHED WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22202
9 Mar 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20170
27 Nov 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19937
20 May 2019Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19368
8 May 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT STORAGE SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18322
21 Nov 2017Conditional
RETENTION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 17923
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: Keel Machair/Menaun Cliffs SAC 001513
- Natural Heritage Area: Doogort East Bog NHA 002381
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Keel Machair/Menaun Cliffs 001513
Recorded monuments
- MA054-016 Midden
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.
- MA054-017 Crannog
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.
- MA054-020 Road - road/trackway
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
- Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1950–1959 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, ----, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Reroofed, ----. Replacement pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), ridge tiles with Cross finials to apexes, and uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards on rendered eaves. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered strips to corners supporting rendered band to eaves. Round-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Round-headed "Trinity Window" (east) with concrete sill, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. "Rose Window" to gable to entrance (west) front with concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panel. Round-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement (porch) with concrete sill, and concealed dressings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Segmental-headed opposing door openings ("cheeks") with concealed dressings framing timber boarded double doors having overlights. Interior including vestibule (west); round-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight; full-height interior with choir gallery (west) below stained glass "Rose Window" (----), carpeted central aisle between timber pews, timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (----), and carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, ----, with cut-veined white marble Gothic-style high altar below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (----). Set in own grounds.
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 20 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dookinelly (Calvy).
- 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 Dookinelly (Calvy) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Dookinelly (Calvy) · Dumha Cinn Aille (Calvy)
- Area
- 7,849,194 m² (784.92 ha, 1,939.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Achill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Slievemore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Slievemore electoral division: 968 people in 421 households; 85% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 50% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellanasally, Bunacurry, Doogort East, Dookinelly (Thulis), Keel East, Maumnaman, Mweelin, Tonatanvally
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Dookinelly (Calvy) 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.