Doonbreedia

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonbreedia, from 111 m² to 134,871 m² (13.49 ha, 33.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Doonbreedia 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.

• 29 May 2023Conditional

  single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, boundary fencing/treatment and septic system, complete with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23299

• 20 Feb 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DOMESTIC SHED, UPGRADE OF EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 18109

• 3 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17233

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 Doonbreedia.

Recorded monuments

• MA038-108 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On slight rise, which provides extensive views over the surrounding lowlying, reclaimed grassland, and expanses of rough heather-covered pasture and bog. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 25m) enclosed by a stone bank. The stone bank survives W–ENE as a sod-covered, stony rise with a low internal lip (W 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.9m). Elsewhere it has an internal face of vertical dry-stone walling (H 1m) with a broad stony external slump (W 3m; H 0.95m). The nature of the original enclosing element is unclear –the stone bank appears to be the result of relatively recent modification of the rath, and its incorporation into later field walls. A field wall, reduced now to wall footings, bisect the interior roughly centrally on an ENE-WSW axis. The rath is densely ringed with blackthorn and brambles. There is another rath (MA038-109----) 200m to SE. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 August 2019

• MA038-109 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in average grassland, with an expanse of rough heathery pasture immediately to SW-W. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 36.5m N-S) defined a scarp/bank. At NE–SW the scarp (W of slope 1.7m; H 1.3m at NE; 1.5m at SE) has a relatively vertical external face, which exhibits remnants of stone facing, suggesting it has been modified to serve as a field fence. At SW-W a short length of bank (W 2.7m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m) survives; it has been levelled to a slight undulation at W-NNE. A property wall, on a NNE-SSW axis, bisects the interior to E of centre. Another field wall, reduced now to a low stony rise, extends E-W through the W half of the interior, intersecting at its E end with the NNE-SSW wall. In the E half of the interior there is a low stony bank (W 2.6m; H 0.4m; L 8m) forming a shallow arc E–NW. The rath perimeter is ringed with overgrowth at N-W. There is another rath (MA038-108----) 200m to NW. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 August 2019

• MA038-110 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating average pasture, overlooking an area of rough wettish land to W. The location is in the NW corner of a modern rectangular field, bordered by a road at W. This monument is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular ringfort-sized enclosure (diam. c. 20m); it is not shown on later map editions. There is no visible trace at ground level. According to local tradition, there was a burial site at or close to this location, possibly (MA038-142----). There is a rath (MA038-111----) 200m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 August 2019

• MA038-111 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In average pasture, utilising a knoll, which provides good views of the surrounding undulating terrain. This rath is not named on the OS 6-inch maps, but is known locally as ‘Rathkell’. It consists of a raised circular area (28m N–S; 29m E–W) defined by a substantial earthen bank, which is enhanced by the slope of the knoll, and is enclosed at the base of that slope by a fosse and external bank. The inner bank (Wth 8.5m; int. H 1.7m; ext. H 4.25m at S) has remnants of stone facing in parts. The external slope, is several meters high at N and S where it merges with the natural slope of the knoll. It is lowest at E where it cuts across a natural level terrace on the knoll top. The fosse (Wth 3.6m at S, 3m at N) and external bank (Wth 2.5-3m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.4-0.8m at S) are well defined, except at N where the external bank has been reduced in size, and faced with stones as a result of incorporation into a later field fence, and at E where a later linear N–S field fence truncates the outer bank and overlies the fosse. At S–SE the external bank is evident as a low rise of earth and stone, and here it appears relatively insubstantial in comparison to it appearance at W where it is scarped into the natural knoll slope and is significantly broader (Wth c. 6m). A section of the outer slope of external bank has been quarried into at SW. The original entrance was at E, opening onto the more gradually sloping side of the knoll; it consists now of a poorly defined gap (Wth c. 2m) in the inner bank. The rath interior is level. In the NW quadrant, adjacent to the bank, there is a sub-rectangular depression with a raised rim of earth and stone along the S side, and a very shallow linear hollow (Wth 1.6m) extends from close to the rath bank at E for 4.5m to N into the interior. The rath is engulfed in a dense thicket of hazel and blackthorn. There is an enclosure (MA038-110----) c. 200m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 August 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, 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 Doonbreedia.

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

Name

Doonbreedia · Dún Bríde

Area

1,491,657 m² (149.17 ha, 368.6 acres)

Civil parish

Addergoole, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Addergoole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Addergoole electoral division: 900 people in 340 households; 83% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinloughaun, Ballymoyock, Ballyvicmaha, Dervin, Glenavenew, Islandmore, Srahyconigaun

Placenames

Doonbreedia 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.