Doona
Doona is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Dún Átha.
- Area
- 520.5 ha
- 1,286 acres
- Land parcels
- 215
- registered freehold, median 11,101 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
215 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doona, from 220 m² to 498,265 m² (49.83 ha, 123.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Doona 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
3 May 2025Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house and wastewater treatment system at Doona, Ballycroy, Co Mayo
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560266
28 Nov 2023Conditional
Full planning permission for the following: (1) Demolish existing detached dwelling house (2) Construct replacement detached dwelling house & domestic shed, together with all associated site works at Doona, Ballycroy, Westport, Co. Mayo.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360501
28 Aug 2023Conditional
construction of a new house and all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23484
15 May 2023Conditional
full planning permission for the following; (1) Demolish existing detached dwelling house, (2) Construct replacement detached dwelling house, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360163
22 Mar 2023Conditional
construction of a new extension to the front and rear of the existing dwelling with provision of first floor accommodation and the demolition of the existing front porch and rear pitched roof extension along with modifications and alterations to elevations
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23155
11 Jul 2022Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING COTTAGE AND PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND REPLACE SEPTIC TANK WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22569
5 Apr 2022Conditional
PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING ALONG WITH MODIFICATIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22265
14 Dec 2018Conditional
CARRY OUT EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 181009
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 Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
- Natural Heritage Area: Tullaghan Bay And Bog NHA 001567
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Doona.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doona.
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Doona.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doona.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Doona with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Doona · Dún Átha
- Area
- 5,204,533 m² (520.45 ha, 1,286.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- Ballycroy North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 285 people lived in 110 households in the Ballycroy North electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumsleed, Fahy, Knockmoyleen, Srahnamanragh
- Placenames
- Doona 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.