Owenwee

95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Owenwee, from 26 m² to 1,636,332 m² (163.63 ha, 404.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Owenwee 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.

• 10 Aug 2026Conditional

  construct a slatted shed to house sheep, and permission to replace roof sheeting and side sheeting on existing farm buildings together with associated site services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26191

• 31 Mar 2026Conditional

  PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE RETENTION OF A DOMESTIC SHED TO THE REAR OF DELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL SITE SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660243

• 21 Jul 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a private dwelling house, Domestic garage, and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560494

• 30 Apr 2024Conditional

  change of house type previously granted under planning ref. no. P21/573

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24137

• 3 Apr 2023Conditional

  construct dry bedded agricultural shed together with associated site services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23180

• 2 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21573

• 31 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND SHEEP HANDLING FACILITIES ALONG WTIH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20607

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Lough Greney Bog NHA 002455

Recorded monuments

• MA097-021 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.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Owenwee, about 1 in 5 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 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 Owenwee.

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.

No address of the register names Owenwee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Owenwee · An Abhainn Bhuí

Area

6,366,752 m² (636.68 ha, 1,573.26 acres)

Civil parish

Oughaval, and its townlands

Barony

Murrisk

Electoral division

Croaghpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

699 people lived in 259 households in the Croaghpatrick electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boheh, Boleybrian, Crott Mountain, Glinsk, Laghloon, Lenanadurtaun, Letterbrock, Oughty, Tawnynameeltoge or Midgefield

Placenames

Owenwee 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.