Dooletter

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooletter, from 351 m² to 588,713 m² (58.87 ha, 145.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Dooletter 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.

• 5 Feb 2026Conditional

  The development will consist of revisions to approved dwelling house (approved planning file references P25/60487). The revisions include: (a) revisions to approved floor plan with an additional floor area of 12 sq.m, (b) revisions to external elevations, (c) minor associated revisions to site services.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660093

• 18 Jul 2025Conditional

  to demolish and rebuild the existing derelict dwelling house, with an extension, new treatment plant, and relocated driveway which was previously granted permission under planning file references P22/8 and P24/60118, on an enlarged site

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560487

• 11 Mar 2024Conditional

  to amend the planning permission granted under planning file reference 22/8, to include for the demolition of the existing substandard, vacant dwelling house, and its reconstruction, along with the approved extension, and connection to the proposed new wastewater treatment plant approved under 22/8. Permission is also sought to relocate the vehicular entrance on the site.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460118

• 12 Jan 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND RENOVATION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE A SINGLE STOREY FLAT ROOF EXTENSION TO THE WEST SIDE, A SPLIT LEVEL SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR, A REAR TERRACE AREA, DECOMMISSION OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, NEW WASTEWATER DISPOSAL SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 228

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumtrasna Mountain Complex 000735

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dooletter.

Architectural heritage

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

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, moderately low (inferred), 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 Dooletter.

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

Name

Dooletter · Dúleitir

Area

3,599,623 m² (359.96 ha, 889.49 acres)

Civil parish

Ross, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Owenbrin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Owenbrin electoral division: 213 people in 97 households; 85% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cummer, Glennacally, Maumtrasna, Shanafaraghaun (Co. Galway)

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Dooletter 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.