Doonfeeny Upper

85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonfeeny Upper, from 24 m² to 251,253 m² (25.13 ha, 62.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Doonfeeny 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.

• 28 Jul 2026N/a

  retain 6 no. glamping pods, 1 no. communal building, 1 no. site office/portacabin, revised glamping site boundaries, on site parking facilities, on site below ground services and septic storage facility, complete with all external ancillary site development works

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 26172

• 29 Jan 2025Conditional

  reconstruct dwelling house after fire, raise roof height and construct extensions to dwelling house, retain domestic shed and to upgrade septic tank to proprietary effluent treatment system

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2525

• 18 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPOSED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19829

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 Doonfeeny Upper.

Recorded monuments

• MA006-022 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.

• MA006-023 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

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• MA006-028 Ringfort - cashel
  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.

• MA006-030 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

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• MA007-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

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• MA007-018001 Church
  Description

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• MA007-018002 Graveyard
  Description

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• MA007-018003 Cross-inscribed pillar
  Description

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• MA007-018004 Enclosure
  Description

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• MA007-018005 Building
  Description

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Architectural heritage

• Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1840–1896 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over basement Church of Ireland rectory, extant 1896, on a T-shaped plan originally three-bay single-storey on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey projecting breakfront; three-bay full-height rear (east) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. "Improved", 1914, producing present composition. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped slate roof (breakfront) with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, rendered chimney stack (breakfront) having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Limewashed roughcast walls; limewashed roughcast surface finish to rear (east) elevation over rendered, ruled and lined base with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners. Square-headed window openings (breakfront) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash window having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings to rear (east) elevation with cut-limestone sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash (basement) or replacement uPVC casement (ground floor) windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered panelled piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed curvilinear gabled capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".

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 Doonfeeny 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonfeeny 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 Doonfeeny Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Doonfeeny Upper · Dún Fhíne Uachtarach

Area

2,633,786 m² (263.38 ha, 650.82 acres)

Civil parish

Doonfeeny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Ballycastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

585 people lived in 256 households in the Ballycastle electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknock, Doonfeeny Lower, Glenulra, Killerduff, Muingelly

Placenames

Doonfeeny 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.