# Tawnaghmore Upper, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killala, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Tamhnach Mhór Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 487,644 m² (48.76 ha, 120.5 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,113 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killala, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/killala.md - Barony: Tirawley - Electoral division: Killala, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,325 people lived in 512 households in the Killala electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34542 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 153025 - Centre: latitude 54.192677, longitude -9.211658 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnaghmore Upper, from 3 m² to 69,317 m² (6.93 ha, 17.13 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 947272: 69,317 m² (6.93 ha, 17.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/947272.md - Parcel 925333: 51,631 m² (5.16 ha, 12.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/925333.md - Parcel 1011696: 38,757 m² (3.88 ha, 9.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1011696.md - Parcel 904073: 29,839 m² (2.98 ha, 7.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904073.md - Parcel 5078008: 28,279 m² (2.83 ha, 6.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5078008.md - Parcel 947270: 26,038 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/947270.md - Parcel 888359: 24,652 m² (2.47 ha, 6.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/888359.md - Parcel 5152232: 23,753 m² (2.38 ha, 5.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5152232.md - Parcel 5332060: 23,498 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5332060.md - Parcel 899843: 22,116 m² (2.21 ha, 5.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/899843.md - Parcel 5332042: 21,679 m² (2.17 ha, 5.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5332042.md - Parcel 2531589: 19,359 m² (1.94 ha, 4.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2531589.md - Parcel 890482: 11,373 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890482.md - Parcel 947265: 10,840 m² (1.08 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/947265.md - Parcel 1003800: 9,082 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003800.md - Parcel 2557655: 9,052 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2557655.md - Parcel 6023405: 7,829 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6023405.md - Parcel 930350: 7,794 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/930350.md - Parcel 924501: 7,422 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/924501.md - Parcel 947273: 6,872 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/947273.md - Parcel 2531557: 4,265 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2531557.md - Parcel 5152219: 3,706 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5152219.md - Parcel 2531328: 3,685 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2531328.md - Parcel 2531322: 3,306 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2531322.md - Parcel 924496: 2,885 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/924496.md - Parcel 4973077: 2,375 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4973077.md - Parcel 5609846: 2,282 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5609846.md - Parcel 5068010: 1,944 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5068010.md - Parcel 5152222: 1,941 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5152222.md - Parcel 6023434: 1,869 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6023434.md - Parcel 5879873: 1,418 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5879873.md - Parcel 2531587: 1,270 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2531587.md - Parcel 985609: 1,171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/985609.md - Parcel 873445: 1,063 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/873445.md - Parcel 4973009: 1,058 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4973009.md - Parcel 2531324: 922 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2531324.md - Parcel 891522: 881 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/891522.md - Parcel 6023421: 707 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6023421.md - Parcel 2531543: 653 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2531543.md - Parcel 924500: 645 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/924500.md - Parcel 6023900: 496 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6023900.md - Parcel 914357: 469 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/914357.md - Parcel 6023867: 400 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6023867.md - Parcel 5140307: 396 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5140307.md - Parcel 6023450: 331 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6023450.md - Parcel 5879871: 320 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5879871.md - Parcel 5165291: 255 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5165291.md - Parcel 927866: 242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/927866.md - Parcel 933136: 180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/933136.md - Parcel 6023462: 127 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6023462.md - Parcel 2531558: 57 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2531558.md - Parcel 4044248: 45 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4044248.md - Parcel 5332058: 14 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5332058.md - Parcel 5354003: 3 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5354003.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Tawnaghmore Upper in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 10 applications, newest first. - 19 Jun 2026, Mayo County Council 2660480: Conditional. Permission. The Application will replace the previous consented (but unbuilt) BESS facility granted under planning ref (25/60108). The development will consist of the following elements: • BESS facility including battery containers with integrated HVAC (heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) units, transformers, inverters, underground cabling, internal access roads, lighting, CCTV and perimeter fencing; • Associated Electrical Compound consisting of a Low Voltage Operations Independent Power Producer (IPP) Compound including a single storey control and operations building, switchgear room, storage container, car parking, welfare/office facilities; • High voltage electrical yard and Eirgrid 110kV substation building; • 264 meters long 110kV single circuit underground grid connection (UGC) within SSE lands and 119 meters within the existing ESB 110kV Substation lands to facilitate the grid connection to the existing adjacent Tawnaghmore substation; • Proposed internal access tracks to BESS facility, including 4 no. new gate entrances • Reinforced concrete and retaining walls; • A temporary construction compound and associated temporary infrastructure to facilitate the development; • Associated landscaping, drainage, decommissioning of existing septic tank and ancillary works. A 10-year permission is sought in respect of the development. Certain details of the proposed development are unconfirmed in the planning application, and an opinion on unconfirmed details accompanies the application. The Tawnaghmore Power Station has an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued Industrial Emissions (IE) Licence (Reg, No. P0566-02).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660480/0 - 28 Feb 2025, Mayo County Council 2560108: Conditional. Permission. The development will consist of the following elements: • Battery Energy Storage System facility, consisting of battery containers with integrated HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) units, transformers, inverters, underground cabling, associated control rooms, internal access routes, lighting, CCTV, lightning masts, fencing; • Associated Electrical Compound consisting of: Low voltage operations compound including one (1) single storey control and operational building, electrical plant, cabling, lighting, CCTV, lightning masts, diesel generator and diesel tank, operations and maintenance containers and stores; • High voltage electrical yard comprising outdoor electrical plant and associated compound; • Underground high voltage electrical cable to facilitate a connection to the existing adjacent 110kV Tawnaghmore substation; • Associated landscaping, drainage, decommissioning of existing septic tank and all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development A 10-year permission is sought in respect of the development. Certain details of the proposed development are unconfirmed in the planning application, and an opinion on unconfirmed details accompanies the application. The Tawnaghmore Power Station has an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued Industrial Emissions (IE) Licence (Reg, No. P0566-02).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560108/0 - 21 Nov 2024, Mayo County Council 2460708: Conditional. Permission. The construction of a single data centre building located to the north of the site, with an overall gross floor area of c. 29,076 sq.m across two levels and an overall maximum height of c. 22.764m at parapet level. The data centre building includes data halls and associated electrical and mechanical plant rooms (c. 23,908 sq.m), an administrative and staff services block (c. 5,052 sq.m) and circulation and stairs (c. 116 sq.m). 2 no. external terraces are proposed to the east of the building (c. 309 sq.m) and an external generator yard to the south of the building (c. 5,205 sq.m) accommodating 25. no. backup / dispatchable generators and associated flues (to a height of c. 21.164m) within an enclosed compound. The construction of a sprinkler tank and pump house to the northeast of the site, the sprinkler tank is an overall height of c. 7.2 m and the pump house is a single storey building with an overall height of c. 4.15m and area GFA of c. 40.23 sq.m. The construction of an entrance hut at the main access to the south of the site, the hut is an overall height of c. 3.225m and area GFA of c. 11.6 sq.m. Construction of 2 no. site access points from the south and internal road network and circulation areas, footpaths, cyclist infrastructure, the provision of 56 no. car parking spaces (including 12 EV charging spaces and 7 disabled spaces, 3 of them EV), 20 no. cycle parking spaces, hard and soft landscaping and planting, site lighting, PV panels and plant at roof level, foul water connection connecting to existing WWTP in Killala Business Park, boundary treatments, green walls and all associated and ancillary works including underground foul and storm water drainage network and utility cables and all ancillary works and services. An EPA-Industrial Emissions Directive (IE) licence will be applied for to facilitate the operation of the proposed development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the planning application and the EIAR and NIS will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy at the offices of the Planning Authority.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460708/0 - 10 Jul 2023, Mayo County Council 2360266: Conditional. Permission. The Proposed Development will consist of a Hydrogen Plant and an Energy Centre. The Hydrogen Plant, to the south of the site ,will consist of a Double Storey Electrolyser Building of up to 24m height; Fin Fan Coolers of up to 10.5m height; Hydrogen Storage Area of 7m height; Hydrogen Gas Tube Filling Station of up to 9m height, Gas Injection Compound and Gas Above Ground Installation Building of 4m height; Electrical Substation up to 15m height and Ancillary Equipment Building of up to 3m height; Fire Water Tank of up to 14m height; Pump House of up to 5m height; Administration/welfare building and control block building of up to 4m height. The Energy Centre, to the north of the site, will consist of 9no. Gas Engines generating up to 106MW of power, housed in a Gas Engine Building of up to 13.6m height with two stacks of up to 25m height, Distillate fuel tank of up to 11.2m height, Firewater tank of up to 10m height, associated pumps, sludge tank of 2.1m height and Pump house of 5m Height, Electrical Building of 4m Height, Gate House of up to 4m Height, Administration/Welfare building of up to 4m Height. The Proposed Development includes the demolition and removal of the existing Asahi Plant buildings, foundations, as well as decommissioning and removal of the existing overhead, above ground drainage system and underground services. The Proposed Development will also include Resurfacing, Repair and Improvement of Existing Site Entrance and new Internal Access Roads which in turn opens onto the existing entrance road to the Ballina/Killala regional road (R314). The provision for 23 no. car parking spaces, footpaths, street lighting, external lighting, CCTV cameras, signage, security fencing, construction compound, and all other associated site development plant and equipment and other works including, utilities connections, potable water, stormwater, sewage, and foul wastewater drainage infrastructure, within a total overall application boundary of 6.88ha.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360266/0 - 28 Apr 2023, Mayo County Council 2360134: Conditional. Permission. A nominal 50 megawatt electricity generating station, combusting woody biomass chips (domestic and imported) as well as a small proportion of fuel oil for boiler start-up. The total site area is 19.0 ha of which approximately 7 ha will be developed. The elements of the station are: weighbridges (2 no.), scale house, roundwood storage area, log deck, enclosed wood chipper, wood chip truck dump, wood chip receiving hopper, wood chip screen, wood chip hog, wood chip bins (2 no.), wood chip storage building, wood chip reclaimer, wood chip conveyors with associated magnetic separators, fuel oil storage tank and associated pumps, fuel oil generator, boiler house, baghouse, ash silo, induced draft fan room, boiler stack, combustion air and flue gas fans, boiler additive material receiving hoppers (3 no.), boiler additive conveyors with associated magnetic separators, boiler additive silos (3 no.), boiler water treatment tanks and associated pumps, ammonia tank and associated pumps, turbine hall (existing), control room (existing), cooling tower and associated pumps, water treatment building, waste water storage tank, fire water storage tank and associated pumps, compressed air system, high voltage transfer lines (3 no.), low voltage transfer lines (3 no.), GSU transformer, switchyard, switchyard MCC room (existing), storage and maintenance building (existing), garage, car park, HGV parking, flagpoles (3 no.), external lighting, CCTV cameras, internal road system, signage, construction compound, landscaping, foul and storm water disposal systems, storm water attenuation, wheel washes, gatehouses (2 no.), entrance gates, security fencing, and all associated site works and services. (See attached Description of Proposed Development document for more details.). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360134/0 - 21 Apr 2023, Mayo County Council 2360117: N/a. Permission. The Proposed Development will consist of a Hydrogen Plant and an Energy Centre. The Hydrogen Plant, to the south of the site ,will consist of a Double Storey Electrolyser Building of up to 24m height; Fin Fan Coolers of up to 10.5m height; Hydrogen Storage Area of 7m height; Hydrogen Gas Tube Filling Station of up to 9m height, Gas Injection Compound and Gas Above Ground Installation Building of 4m height; Electrical Substation up to 8m height and Ancillary Equipment Building of up to 3m height; Fire Water Tank of up to 14m height; Pump House of up to 5m height; Administration/welfare building and control block building of up to 4m height. The Energy Centre, to the north of the site, will consist of 9no. Gas Engines generating up to 106MW of power, housed in a Gas Engine Building of up to 13.6m height with two stacks of up to 25m height, Distillate fuel tank of up to 11.2m height, Firewater tank of up to 10m height, associated pumps, sludge tank of 2.1m height and Pump house of 5m Height, Electrical Building of 4m Height, Gate House of up to 4m Height, Administration/Welfare building of up to 4m Height. The Proposed Development includes the demolition and removal of the existing Asahi Plant buildings, foundations, as well as decommissioning and removal of the existing overhead and underground services. The Proposed Development will also include Resurfacing, Repair and Improvement of Existing Site Entrance and new Internal Access Roads which in turn opens onto the existing entrance road to the Ballina/Killala regional road (R314). The provision for heavy goods vehicle layby area, the provision of 23 no. car parking spaces, footpaths, street lighting, external lighting, CCTV cameras, signage, security fencing, construction compound, and all other associated site development plant and equipment and other works including, utilities connections, potable water, stormwater, sewage, and foul wastewater drainage infrastructure, within a total overall application boundary of 6.91ha.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360117/0 - 8 Jul 2022, Mayo County Council 22562: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A ONE-STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING CABLE LANDING STATION, PROPOSED ESB SUBSTATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/22562/0 - 15 May 2019, Mayo County Council 19351: Conditional. Permission. A 20m FREE-STANDING STRUCTURE CARRYING TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDING UNDERGROUND CABLING AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/19351/0 - 18 May 2018, Mayo County Council 18362: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF 3 NO. NEW 18SQM SINGLE STOREY BESPOKE BUILT ELECTRICIAL PLANT ROOM CONTAINERS (eMod) AND THE ERECTION OF 1 NO. 3.6SQM CHILLER UNIT, AND RETENTION PERMISSION FOR 1 NO. 23SQM STEELTECH TOOL STORAGE SHED, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, ALL TO BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING CABLE LANDING STATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18362/0 - 31 Jul 2017, Mayo County Council 17619: Conditional. Permission. 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR 5 TURBINE WIND FARM. PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL BE LOCATED IN THE TOWNLANDS OF MAGHERABRACK, MULLAFARRY, TAWNAGHMORE LOWER, MEELICK AND TAWNAGHMORE UPPER, KILLALA APPROX 1.3KM SOUTH OF KILLALA. DEVELOPMENT IS AN UPDATED APPLICATION TO THE CONSENTED 6 TURBINE WIND FARM P09/780. PROPOSAL IS FOR A WIND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT COMPRISING 5 ELECTRICITY GENERATING WIND TURBINES, EACH WITH A ROTOR DIAMETER NOT EXCEEDING 103.2M A HUB HEIGHT NOT EXCEEDING 73.5M AND A BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF NOT EXCEEDING 126M. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL INCLUDE A METEOROLOGICAL MAST NOT EXCEED 82M IN HEIGHT, INTERNAL UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLING, A SUBSTATION BUILDING, AN EXTERNAL UNDERGROUND GRID CONNECTION CABLE AND DUCTING TO THE EXISTING 110KV TAWNAGHMORE SUBSTATION, ASSOCIATED GRID SUBSTATION WORKS, ASSOCIATED SITE ACCESS ROADS AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS INCLUDING UPGRADES TO EXISTING SITE ACCESS, A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND AND HAULAGE ROUTE WORKS. THE MAX OUTPUT CAPACITY OF THE WIND FARM WILL BE UP TO 18MW AND HAS AN INTENDED OPERATION LIFE OF 25 YEARS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/17619/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tawnaghmore Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tawnaghmore Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tawnaghmore Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Tawnaghmore Upper, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tawnaghmore Upper. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tawnaghmore-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tawnaghmore-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tawnaghmore-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Tawnaghmore Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinteean: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballinteean.md - Carrowreagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowreagh-150761.md - Crosspatrick: https://everytownland.com/mayo/crosspatrick.md - Lisglennon: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lisglennon.md - Mullafarry: https://everytownland.com/mayo/mullafarry.md - Tawnaghmore Lower: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tawnaghmore-lower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tawnaghmore-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/tawnaghmore-upper