Mocorha

158 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mocorha, from 85 m² to 152,059 m² (15.21 ha, 37.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Mocorha 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.

• 5 Jul 2024Conditional

  construction of a cattle slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank and all ancillary site works in existing farmyard. A NIS has been prepared as part of the application.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24262

• 19 Feb 2024N/a

  construction of a cattle slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank and all ancillary site works in existing farmyard

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2443

• 7 Dec 2023Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23652

• 10 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 211294

• 24 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 211021

• 15 Oct 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18786

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: Mocorha Lough SAC 001536
• Special Area of Conservation: Shrule Turlough SAC 000525
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mocorha Lough 001536
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Shrule Turlough 000525

Recorded monuments

• MA121-148 Enclosure
  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.

• MA121-149 Standing stone
  Description

  In level pasture. Rectangular in cross-section (H 1.2m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.3), orientated E-W. 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. 58. Date of upload: 14 January 2015

• MA121-150 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Rectangular tower (12.3m N-S; 10.1m E-W), on N-facing slope, in pasture. Ground floor survives; filled with rubble and roofed by poor remains of vaulted ceiling. Ground floor divided into two rooms, the smaller on the S end. Part of splayed window in an arched recess on external face of W wall. Owned by Brian boy MacDonnell in 1574 (Knox 1908, 347). 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. 720. Date of upload: 14 January 2015

• MA121-190 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In wettish pastue. Shown on OS map (1838 & 1929) as ‘Tobersharve’. Not located during field work. 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. 661. Date of upload: 21 January 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, 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 Mocorha.

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

Name

Mocorha · Maigh Chartha

Area

2,442,730 m² (244.27 ha, 603.61 acres)

Civil parish

Shrule, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Shrule, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shrule electoral division: 1,211 people in 419 households; 89% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunnafollistran, Cahernabrock, Houndswood South, Kilmacduagh, Knocknageeha

Placenames

Mocorha 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.