Oughty
Oughty is a townland in the civil parish of Oughaval, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Na hUchtaí.
- Area
- 518.9 ha
- 1,282 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 66,345 m² (6.63 ha, 16.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oughty, from 78 m² to 2,345,578 m² (234.56 ha, 579.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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
No zone of a development plan covers Oughty 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Dec 2022Conditional
construction of new dwelling house, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, and connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 221182
21 Jan 2021Conditional
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR EXISTING REAR EXTENSION AND FRONT PORCH TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR A NEW SIDE EXTENSION AND A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND DEMOLITION OF A PART OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND THE ATTACHED SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION INTO EXISTIING SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2136
13 Dec 2019Conditional
RENOVATE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ELEVATION ALTERATIONS, GARAGE AND ATTIC CONVERSIONS WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19971
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Mweelrea/Sheeffry/Erriff Complex SAC 001932
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mweelrea/Sheeffry/Erriff Complex 001932
Recorded monuments
- MA097-013001 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.
- MA097-013002 Children's burial ground
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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oughty.
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 Oughty, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Oughty.
- 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 Oughty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Oughty · Na hUchtaí
- Area
- 5,189,297 m² (518.93 ha, 1,282.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oughaval, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Drummin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 182 people lived in 76 households in the Drummin electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derrakillew, Derryaun, Derryhawna, Drummin East, Lenanadurtaun, Letterbrock, Owenwee, Pollanoughty
- Placenames
- Oughty 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.