Tawnycrower
Tawnycrower is a townland in the civil parish of Oughaval, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Tamhnaigh Chreabhar.
- Area
- 383.1 ha
- 947 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 220,535 m² (22.05 ha, 54.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnycrower, from 7,349 m² (0.73 ha, 1.82 acres) to 2,543,714 m² (254.37 ha, 628.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tawnycrower 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Tawnycrower 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Mweelrea/Sheeffry/Erriff Complex SAC 001932
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mweelrea/Sheeffry/Erriff Complex 001932
Recorded monuments
- MA107-010001 Hut site
Description
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.
- MA107-010002 Field boundary
Description
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.
Architectural heritage
- Sheefry Bridge, bridge, 1800–1838 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch hump back road bridge over river, extant 1838. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls with soldier course-detailed lichen-covered rough hewn limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Glenlaur River with gorse-covered unkempt banks to river.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Tawnycrower, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tawnycrower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tawnycrower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Tawnycrower · Tamhnaigh Chreabhar
- Area
- 3,830,915 m² (383.09 ha, 946.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oughaval, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Drummin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 182 people lived in 76 households in the Drummin electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnaderg, Cuilmore, Derrylea, Glenlaur, Muingatogher, Shanvallybeg, Tawnyard
- Placenames
- Tawnycrower 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.