Glendorragha

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Glendorragha, from 7,609,652 m² (760.97 ha, 1,880.39 acres) to 7,609,652 m² (760.97 ha, 1,880.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Glendorragha 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Glendorragha in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Newport River SAC 002144

Recorded monuments

• MA058-003 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Situated on a precipitous mountain ridge. Not shown on the 1840-1 OS 6-inch map; on the1920 edition it is shown located on the line of the barony boundary and is named ‘Pile of Stones’. Low, irregularly-shaped cairn (2.9m NNW-SSE; 2.6m ENE-WSW; H 0.9m) of medium-sized stones. There is second boundary cairn (MA058-002----) c. 177m to NW. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 July 2015

• MA058-009 Cairn - burial cairn
  Description

  On the summit of Birreencorragh Mountain, the third highest peak in the Nephin Beg range, with panoramic views in all directions. The cairn is located at the SW end of the ridge top where the ridge ends abruptly, dropping to a col at SW. The location straddles the boundary between the townlands of Glendavoolagh and Glendorragha, with the mountain slope flanking the cairn falling steeply into the valley of Glendavoolagh at W and Glendorragha valley at E. The mountain is composed of metamorphic rock, quartzite and schists; the peak is now largely denuded of its original covering of peat. This well defined, broadly oval cairn (diam. c. 18m N-S; c. 14m E-W) is composed of loose quartzite blocks, covered in parts by a thin mantle of peat. It stands to a height of 2.5-3m at W and c. 1-1.3m at NE. Large boulders visible along the SE edge may be part of a kerb. The Ordnance Survey used the cairn as a trigonometrical station, and broken remnants of an OS concrete pillar lie on the cairn surface. Other signs of modern disturbance include a small recently built cairn (H c. 1.2m) sitting on top of the SW end of the ancient cairn. A rough stone bank/causeway (L 3m N-S; Wth 2m; H 0.5m high) connects this cairn with another cairn (MA058-010----) at NE. This causeway appears to be an original feature. Notified to NMS by Michael Gibbons. The attached images are courtesy of Michael Gibbons: MA058-009----_01.JPG viewed from N MA058-009----_01.JPG Viewed from SE Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 February 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, 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 Glendorragha.

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

Name

Glendorragha · An Gleann Dorcha

Area

7,609,473 m² (760.95 ha, 1,880.34 acres)

Civil parish

Addergoole, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Glenhest, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenhest electoral division: 257 people in 104 households; 80% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloondaff, Coolnabinnia, Derreen, Glendavoolagh, Glenlara, Gortnaheltia, Letterbrick, Letterkeeghaun

Placenames

Glendorragha 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.