Dooros
Dooros is a townland in the civil parish of Balla, barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Dúros.
- Area
- 41.1 ha
- 102 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 5,983 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooros, from 1,214 m² to 58,663 m² (5.87 ha, 14.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Dooros 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
18 Sept 2024Conditional
extend and renovate an existing dwelling house and construct a new waste water treatment system with percolation area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24388
6 Aug 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A THREE-BAY SLATTED SHED INCORPORATING A CALF CREEP AREA AND CATTLE CRUSH AND A CONCRETE APRON, ALL AS PER DRAWING DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21851
28 Aug 2017Conditional
REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING COTTAGE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED NEW 2 STOREY EXTENSION, SEPARATE GARAGE, NEW ENTRANCE, NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CONNECTIONS TO SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17694
25 Aug 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17686
25 Aug 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17687
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dooros.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dooros.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dooros.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Dooros, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dooros.
- 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 Dooros with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Dooros · Dúros
- Area
- 410,881 m² (41.09 ha, 101.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balla, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Electoral division
- Balla, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,661 people lived in 631 households in the Balla electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinagran, Ballyrourke, Legaun, Prison South
- Placenames
- Dooros 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.