Tawnanasool

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnanasool, from 989,178 m² (98.92 ha, 244.43 acres) to 3,469,432 m² (346.94 ha, 857.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Tawnanasool 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.

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  extension of the airborne testing activiites previously granted on this site under P20/713. the application will request a continuance of research, development and demonstration on airborne wind

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25506

• 28 Sept 2020Conditional

  AIRBORNE WIND DEMONSTRATION SITE WITH AN ONSITE HANGAR, GROUND CONTROL CENTRE/OFFICE, WITH ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE IINCLUDING ONSITE ROADS, TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND, WIND MAST, LAUNCH AND LAND APPARATUS WITH ASSOCIATED FOUNDATIONS/WINCHES AND UNDERGROUND CABLING

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20713

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Bangor Erris Bog NHA 001473

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tawnanasool.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Tawnanasool, 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, 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 Tawnanasool.

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

Name

Tawnanasool · Tamhnach na Súl

Area

6,326,274 m² (632.63 ha, 1,563.26 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Bangor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

508 people lived in 200 households in the Bangor electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballina, Croaghaun, Darraragh, Muingnahalloona, Muingnanarnad, Rosnagleragh, Tarsaghaun Beg North, Tullaghaunnashammer

Placenames

Tawnanasool 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.