Tawnagh

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnagh, from 2,916 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres) to 109,465 m² (10.95 ha, 27.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Tawnagh 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.

• 8 Aug 2025Conditional

  Planning permission to construct domestic dwelling house along with adjoining domestic garage, new Treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works at Tawnagh, Brickens, Claremorris, Co. Mayo.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560530

• 17 Jun 2024Refused

  construct dwelling house with attached garage as shown on plans together with effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24235

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK/FOUL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, ALL AS PER DRAWING DOCUMENTATION SUBMITTED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21601

• 6 Jan 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SLATTED CATTLE SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 176

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tawnagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tawnagh.

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tawnagh.

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

Name

Tawnagh · An Tamhnach

Area

747,146 m² (74.71 ha, 184.62 acres)

Civil parish

Bekan, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Culnacleha, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Culnacleha electoral division: 483 people in 184 households; 82% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvilla Demesne, Ballybaun, Brickeens, Kilknock, Lenamore

Placenames

Tawnagh 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.