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Murrevagh

Murrevagh is a townland in the civil parish of Burrishoole, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Muirbheach.

Area
435.7 ha
1,077 acres
Land parcels
329
registered freehold, median 4,059 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres)
Zoning
M4
Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning
Planning
19
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

363 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

329 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murrevagh, from 18 m² to 347,686 m² (34.77 ha, 85.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

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

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

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

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 Murrevagh, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
Terrain model
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Murrevagh.
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 Murrevagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

The townland

Name
Murrevagh · Muirbheach
Area
4,356,849 m² (435.68 ha, 1,076.6 acres)
Civil parish
Burrishoole, and its townlands
Barony
Burrishoole
Electoral division
Newport West, the unit of the census
Census 2022
799 people lived in 290 households in the Newport West electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Bunnahowna, Clagganmountain, Dooghill, Mallaranny
Placenames
Murrevagh 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.