Owenduff
Townland in the civil parish of Achill, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Abhainn Dubh
- Area
- 817.4 ha
- 2,020 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 8,521 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Owenduff, from 201 m² to 3,533,198 m² (353.32 ha, 873.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Owenduff 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
24 Feb 2025Conditional
construct a dry store agricultural shed and concrete apron including all associated site development works at Owenduff, Tonregee, Westport, County Mayo
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560094
13 May 2024N/a
CONSTRUCT A NEW SLATTED SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460285
16 Feb 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW SLATTED SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360033
3 Nov 2017Conditional
ESSENTIAL REPAIRS TO EXISTING 38KV LINE BETWEEN NEWPORT STATION AND ACHILL STATION. WORKS WILL INCLUDE REPLACING EXISTING DOUBLE WOOD POLES, STAYS AND HEADGEAR IN THE TOWNLANDS OF CARRICKANEADY, CLOONESHIL, DRUMLONG, CAMCLOON, DERRYLOUGHAN, DERRINTAGGART, KILTARNAGH, SHANVALLYHUGH, DERRADA, DERRYCOOLDRIM, CARROWSALLAGH, KNOCKBREAGA, TIERNAUR, ROSSGALIV, ROSSTUR, BUNNAHOWN, MURREVAGH, MALLARANNY, COIS LEICE, AN ABHAINN DUBH, TON RE GAOTH, POLL RAITHNI
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17872
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: Lough Gall Bog SAC 000522
- Special Area of Conservation: Corraun Plateau SAC 000485
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Corraun Plateau 000485
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gall Bog 000522
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Owenduff.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge over river, built 1829-30; extant 1838. Part tuck pointed coursed cut-sandstone walls between coursed cut-sandstone piers with hammered sandstone rounded coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with drag edged rusticated limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning An Cartún [Cartron River] with unkempt banks to river.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Owenduff.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Owenduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Owenduff · An Abhainn Dubh
- Area
- 8,173,785 m² (817.38 ha, 2,019.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Achill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Corraun, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Corraun electoral division: 712 people in 279 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cartron, Cuillaloughaun, Tonregee East
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Owenduff 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.