Doonanarroo Upper

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonanarroo Upper, from 6,160 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres) to 452,116 m² (45.21 ha, 111.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Doonanarroo Upper 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.

• 6 Aug 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the retention of existing dwelling house & garage previous planning granted under P20/716. Including retention of existing access, boundaries, all other associated works & services.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560527

• 9 May 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the retention of existing dwelling house & garage. Including retention of existing access, boundaries, all other associated works & services at Doonanarroo Upper, Garranard, Ballina, County Mayo, F26 N6K4.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560285

• 1 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20716

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Doonanarroo Upper.

Recorded monuments

• MA021-028 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 3 January 2012

• MA021-029 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 3 January 2012

Architectural heritage

• Doonanarroo House, farm house, 1840–1896 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1896. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, fine roughcast chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters[?] retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Fine roughcast battered walls with rendered strips to corners. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills[?], and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in own grounds perpendicular to road with rendered piers to perimeter having stepped capping supporting flat iron double gates.

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 Doonanarroo Upper, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Doonanarroo Upper · Dún an Arbha Uachtarach

Area

803,383 m² (80.34 ha, 198.52 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfian, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Kilfian East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

242 people lived in 89 households in the Kilfian East electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belladooan, Breaghwyanteean, Cloonsnaghta, Cloyrawer, Doonanarroo Lower, Fallgarve, Ratheskin

Placenames

Doonanarroo Upper 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.