# Tawnyard, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Oughaval, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo; in Irish Tamhnaigh Ard. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,725,285 m² (272.53 ha, 673.43 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 98,733 m² (9.87 ha, 24.4 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Oughaval, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/oughaval.md - Barony: Murrisk - Electoral division: Drummin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Drummin electoral division: 182 people in 76 households; 84% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37139 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 153036 - Centre: latitude 53.651281, longitude -9.647828 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnyard, from 722 m² to 657,206 m² (65.72 ha, 162.4 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1003927: 657,206 m² (65.72 ha, 162.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003927.md - Parcel 985736: 606,437 m² (60.64 ha, 149.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985736.md - Parcel 976929: 532,863 m² (53.29 ha, 131.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976929.md - Parcel 5178773: 198,202 m² (19.82 ha, 48.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5178773.md - Parcel 891524: 194,434 m² (19.44 ha, 48.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/891524.md - Parcel 980938: 176,568 m² (17.66 ha, 43.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980938.md - Parcel 5401408: 124,669 m² (12.47 ha, 30.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5401408.md - Parcel 923444: 103,909 m² (10.39 ha, 25.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/923444.md - Parcel 948468: 93,558 m² (9.36 ha, 23.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/948468.md - Parcel 923443: 20,765 m² (2.08 ha, 5.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/923443.md - Parcel 2695835: 6,403 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2695835.md - Parcel 3759329: 3,980 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3759329.md - Parcel 873458: 2,643 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873458.md - Parcel 3759405: 2,390 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3759405.md - Parcel 927913: 1,869 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/927913.md - Parcel 948467: 722 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/948467.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Tawnyard 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) No planning application touches the townland of Tawnyard in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Mweelrea/Sheeffry/Erriff Complex SAC, site code 001932, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001932 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mweelrea/Sheeffry/Erriff Complex, site code 001932 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA107-005: Crannog, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA107-005----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tawnyard. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tawnyard. - 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/tawnyard.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tawnyard.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tawnyard.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Tawnyard 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) - Barnaderg: https://everytownland.com/mayo/barnaderg.md - Derrintin: https://everytownland.com/mayo/derrintin.md - Glendavock: https://everytownland.com/mayo/glendavock.md - Glenlaur: https://everytownland.com/mayo/glenlaur.md - Glenummera: https://everytownland.com/mayo/glenummera-151831.md - Tawnycrower: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tawnycrower.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/tawnyard - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/tawnyard