Tawnaghbeg

104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnaghbeg, from 199 m² to 101,245 m² (10.12 ha, 25.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Tawnaghbeg 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.

• 5 Mar 2026Conditional

  Permission to construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new Treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2660174

• 24 Oct 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the part demolition and renovation of an existing dwelling, the construction of a proposed extension, along with associated site works, demolition of one shed and partial demolition of a second shed, a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. A NIS “Natura Impact Statement” will also be submitted with this application

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560749

• 2 Oct 2024Conditional

  To create new site access and to construct domestic dwelling house along with new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460621

• 15 Jun 2023Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling comprised of a two storey pitched volume to the east with gable frontage, lower volume to the west, separate garage to the northeast, new vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works and landscaping

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23339

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tawnaghbeg Bog 000547

Recorded monuments

• MA064-002001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, close to the S boundary of the townland, located on a low E−W ridge in an area of mixed grassland and bog. Circular area (diam. 31m) enclosed by a drystone wall. The wall (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.9-1.2m; ext. H 1m at W, 1.25m at E) is roughly constructed of field stones and boulders. The internal wall face is relatively intact, but the exterior face has a collapsed in parts to a broad, slumped jumble of stones, with some additions of field clearance stones. There are low tumbled sections of wall at SSE and S, which now allow access to the interior, but no clearly defined entrance gap. At N a large recumbent boulder is set against the exterior wall face. The interior is flat; it was used as children’s burial ground (MA064-002002-), but no graves are now evident. Later field walls radiate from it at N, SE and SW. It is ringed with hazel and blackthorn, with blackthorn encroaching on the interior. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 June 2020

• MA064-002002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In a possible cashel (MA064-002001-). According to Aldridge (1969) the interior of this enclosure was used as children’s burial ground. There are now no traces of graves at ground surface. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Tawnaghbeg, 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tawnaghbeg · An Tamhnach Bheag

Area

3,366,734 m² (336.67 ha, 831.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Doocastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

383 people lived in 153 households in the Doocastle electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghmore (Co. Sligo), Carrowntemple (Co. Sligo), Cloonfeightrin, Cuilmore (Co. Sligo), Derrykinlough, Gowlaun, Kilgarriff

Placenames

Tawnaghbeg 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.