Dookinelly (Thulis)
Townland in the civil parish of Achill, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Dumha Cinn Aille (Thulis)
- Area
- 327.8 ha
- 810 acres
- Land parcels
- 132
- registered freehold, median 2,066 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
132 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dookinelly (Thulis), from 12 m² to 2,909,702 m² (290.97 ha, 719 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 (Thulis) 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
25 Aug 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to construct detached dormer dwelling, with connection to public services.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560585
29 May 2025Conditional
Construction Of a Dwelling house and Garage and Demolition of existing house with connection to existing services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560341
29 Apr 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22327
21 Jun 2021Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21660
15 Feb 2021Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING KNOWN AS "PALM BEACH" WITH USE OF EXISTING PUBLIC WATER AND SEWER SERVICES ON SITE AND TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT
Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21113
22 Jan 2020Conditional
EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH MODIFICATIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO FRONT ELEVATION AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISITNG FRONT PORCH AND REAR SINGLE STOREY ANNEXE AND GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2019
2 Jul 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC HOUSE WITH USE OF EXISTING WATER AND PUBLIC SEWER CONNECTIONS ON SITE AND TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18484
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Keel Machair/Menaun Cliffs 001513
Recorded monuments
- MA054-018001 Settlement cluster
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.
- MA054-018002 Ecclesiastical site
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.
- MA054-019 Children's burial ground
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.
- MA054-021 Ritual site - holy well
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.
- MA054-022 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dookinelly (Thulis).
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Dookinelly (Thulis).
- 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 (Thulis) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Dookinelly (Thulis) · Dumha Cinn Aille (Thulis)
- Area
- 3,278,321 m² (327.83 ha, 810.09 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
- Dooega, Dookinelly (Calvy), Keel East, Mweelin
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Dookinelly (Thulis) 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.