Doonamona

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonamona, from 699 m² to 149,748 m² (14.97 ha, 37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Doonamona 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Doonamona in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Killala Bay/Moy Estuary SPA 004036

Recorded monuments

• MA014-091 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• MA014-092 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• MA014-126 Mound
  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.

• MA014-127 Barrow - unclassified
  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

• Palmerstown House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1896 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1896, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of spear head-detailed flat iron piers supporting flat iron-detailed wrought iron double gates with rendered panelled outer piers having moss-covered pyramidal capping supporting flat iron-detailed wrought iron pedestrian gates. Road fronted on a corner site at entrance to grounds of Palmerstown House.

• Palmerstown Bridge, bridge, 1700–1777 · Regional interest
  Description

  Eleven-arch road bridge over river, extant 1777. Roughcast walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar triangular cutwaters to piers having pyramidal capping with rendered coping to parapets. Series of eleven round arches with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Palmerstown River with unkempt banks to river.

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

At the centre of the townland of Doonamona, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonamona.

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.

No address of the register names Doonamona with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Doonamona · Dún na Móna

Area

595,096 m² (59.51 ha, 147.05 acres)

Civil parish

Templemurry, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Lackan South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

460 people lived in 181 households in the Lackan South electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carn, Castlereagh, Cloonavarry, Rathbaun, Rathnawooraun, Tooracappul

Placenames

Doonamona 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.