Tawnamullagh

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnamullagh, from 2,904 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres) to 309,406 m² (30.94 ha, 76.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Tawnamullagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Tawnamullagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Tawnamullagh.

Recorded monuments

• MA062-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on the SE-facing slope of a gravel ridge, with good views of the surrounding grassland. This rath is shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch as an intact circular enclosure (diam. c. 35-40m), located at the W edge of Tawnamullagh td., with the western perimeter of the rath incorporated into the townland boundary, which it shares with Lagcurragh Td. to W. It has a more irregular outline on the 1919 OS 6-inch with a roughly semi-circular hachured arc delineating the E half of the rath, and the W side delineated by the undulating line of the townland boundary. The rath has been severely damaged by quarrying. An irregular-shaped raised area (c. 35m NNE-SSW; c. 25m E−W to the field fence/td. boundary) is evident, bordered to W−NW by the zig-zag course of the field fence/townland boundary. The remains appear to represent the damaged remnants of the N and E part of the rath; the surface consists of uneven disturbed ground. The SE−S portion of the rath appears to have been entirely quarried away. Remnants of a souterrain (MA062-036001-) are exposed in section on the W side of the quarried out area, adjacent to the field fence. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 November 2020

• MA062-036001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the SW part of a rath (MA062-036----). Quarrying of the S portion of the rath has created a vertical section face (H 3.5m) at W close to a N−S field fence/townland boundary. Exposed in the section face at a depth of 0.65m below ground surface, is a horizontal stone slab or roof lintel, and directly below that, a vertical column (H 1.6m) of stones, one stone wide, which may be the drystone side wall of a souterrain passage or chamber. Flanking the N side of this wall, is a fill of brown earth (Wth 1m), which appears to relate to the souterrain as it differs from the natural sandy gravelly soil exposed elsewhere in the section face. In an unquarried part of the rath interior, close to the field fence, 3m to SW of the section face, a single large slab, possibly a roof lintel, protrudes from the sod-covered ground surface. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 November 2020

• MA062-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In flat expanse of lowlying pasture, located on a low rise. This possible rath is shown on the 1919 OS 6-inch map as an oval area (c. 35m NW−SE; c. 25m NE-SW) enclosed by an external fosse; a field boundary on a roughly N-S axis cuts across the W half. It has been levelled. The N-S field fence, which cuts across the interior, is extant. The oval outline is recorded as a cropmark in an aerial photograph (OS 2 8785 -6; Roll 216, pr. 5; SMR file), and is evident in current aerial imagery. There is a rath (MA062-038----) located 155m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 November 2020

• MA062-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In good pasture, located on a prominent rise, which provides good views of the surrounding grassland. At W the slope drops to a stream/drain which curves around the base of the rise at S−NW. Raised circular area (27.8m E-W; 29.8m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.9m at S, 2m at N). The scarp is steepest and most pronounced at W–NNE. It is lowest at E–S, which is the most likely area for an original entrance, although no clearly defined entrance feature is evident. At the W edge of the interior, adjacent to the scarp, there is a narrow, elongated depression (12m N-S; 2-3m E-W; max. D 1.1m), irregular in width and depth, which appears to be the result of quarrying/disturbance. There is a rath (MA062-036----) 200m to NW, a rath (MA062-140----) 330m to NNW, and another (MA062-037----) 330m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 November 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_563 (ZIP).

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

Name

Tawnamullagh · Tamhnach Mhullach

Area

337,925 m² (33.79 ha, 83.5 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconduff, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Swineford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Swineford electoral division: 2,629 people in 1,062 households; 76% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Esker, Lagcurragh, Rathscanlan

Placenames

Tawnamullagh 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.