Inishowen

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inishowen, from 2,830 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres) to 60,227 m² (6.02 ha, 14.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 1 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 Inishowen 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 Inishowen 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: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
• Special Protection Area: Lough Mask SPA 004062
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774

Recorded monuments

• MA117-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop hill, on E shore of Lough Mask. Circular raised area (22m N-S; 21m E-W), enclosed by two earthen banks with deep intervening fosse. Inner bank rises 4.3m above fosse base. Outer bank (H 0.9m) and fosse extant, ESE to NW. Heavily overgrown in parts. Stone palisade, SSW to NE, consists of thirty-five stones (highest; 2.3m), some standing and some lying prostrate, in an irregular pattern. 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. 171. Date of upload: 7 November 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Inishowen.

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

Name

Inishowen · Inis Eoghain

Area

391,381 m² (39.14 ha, 96.71 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinchalla, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Neale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Neale electoral division: 879 people in 298 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Inishmaine

Placenames

Inishowen 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.