Drishaghaun

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drishaghaun, from 1,070 m² to 208,298 m² (20.83 ha, 51.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Drishaghaun 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.

• 16 Dec 2025Conditional

  development consisting of the following works, 1. Extension to existing slatted cubicle shed to contain cubicles and slatted tank; 2. Construct New Slatted Shed containing slatted tank, cubicles and calf pens; 3. New calf Shed; 4. 2 No. New Silage bases; together with all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560942

• 20 Sept 2025N/a

  development consisting of the following works, 1. Extension to existing slatted cubicle shed to contain cubicles and slatted tank; 2. Construct New Slatted Shed containing slatted tank, cubicles and calf pens; 3. New calf Shed; 4. 2 No. New Silage bases; together with all associated site works at Drishaghaun T.d.,Ballyglass, Claremorris, Co. Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560656

• 12 Sept 2025N/a

  development consisting of the following works, 1. Extension to existing slatted cubicle shed to contain cubicles and slatted tank; 2. Construct New Slatted Shed containing slatted tank, cubicles and calf pens; 3. New calf Shed; 4. 2 No. New Silage bases; together with all associated site works at Drishaghaun T.d.,Ballyglass, Claremorris, Co. Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560625

• 29 Aug 2025N/a

  1. Extension to existing slatted cubicle shed to contain cubicles and slatted tank; 2. Construct New Slatted Shed containing slatted tank, cubicles and calf pass; 3. New calf Shed; 4. 2 No. New Silage bases; together with all associated site works at Drishaghaun T.d.,Ballyglass, Claremorris, Co. Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560596

• 12 Sept 2023Conditional

  Henry & Mary Mellett are seeking to retain ,,on a revised site , the alterations and extensions to their dwelling house initially granted under planning permission 93/1309 and to retain a garage on the same site

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2360370

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 Drishaghaun.

Recorded monuments

• MA100-024 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. Shown as circular enclosure on OS map (1838). Levelled; no visible surface traces. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 356. Date of upload: 23 January 2013

• MA100-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On E-facing slope of ridge, in good pasture. Roughly circular-shaped area (45m N-S; 41m E-W), enclosed by heavily overgrown earthen bank (H 1.6m) and external fosse (D 0.4m). Entrance (Wth 3.2m) on E, with causeway. Large depression in fosse to S. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 157. Date of upload: 24 January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Drishaghaun.

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

Name

Drishaghaun · An Driseachán

Area

965,201 m² (96.52 ha, 238.51 acres)

Civil parish

Mayo, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Roslee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Roslee electoral division: 443 people in 154 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curry (Macmanus), Curry (Macmanus), Kilgreana, Rathnacreeva, Summerhill North

Placenames

Drishaghaun 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.