Termoncarragh
Termoncarragh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Tearmann Caithreach.
- Area
- 315.5 ha
- 780 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 33,161 m² (3.32 ha, 8.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Termoncarragh, from 1,990 m² to 344,685 m² (34.47 ha, 85.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Termoncarragh 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
24 Feb 2025N/a
Section 5 Declaration: 3 new coastal loop walks on the Northern End of the Mullet Peninsula,using minor roads, existing tracks, parts of the existing Erris Head Loop Walk and some areas of farmland/bog
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2557
21 Mar 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PERMISSION
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22224
17 May 2018N/a
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF THE 1.1M HIGH AGRICULTURAL FENCE WITHIN AND ABUTTING A SPECIAL AREA OF CONSERVATION, A SPECIAL PROTECTION AREA AND A CANDIDATE NATURAL HERITAGE AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 18359
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: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex SAC 000470
- Special Area of Conservation: Erris Head SAC 001501
- Special Protection Area: Termoncarragh Lake and Annagh Machair SPA 004093
- Special Protection Area: Mullet Peninsula SPA 004227
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex 000470
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Erris Head 001501
Recorded monuments
- MA009-003002 Earthwork
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.
- MA009-004 Promontory fort - coastal
Description
This previously unrecorded fort lies on a peninsula immediately to the S of a nearby fortified headland (MA009-003001-) in an area of flat sheep grazing along the western shore of the Mullet peninsula. The promontory fort is overlooked by higher ground inland. A long rectangular W-facing promontory measuring 34m long by only 7m across is cut off from the mainland by a fosse with slight indications of a stone wall outside it. The fosse measures 3m wide and 60cms deep. Regular uprights standing in the ground 4m outside the fosse may be the remains of a stone wall running across the neck of the headland. There is no trace of an entrance. The flat interior is featureless and rocks thrown up from the sea are strewn about. A recently exposed section through the defences along the southern cliff face shows that the fosse was up to 1.5m deep and may have been partly rock-cut. To the SW there is another promontory forts (MA009-005001-) and a number of hut sites (MA009-005005-, MA009-005006-, MA009-005011-). These descriptions are derived from the MA thesis of Markus Casey 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway. Date of upload: 5 December 2018
- MA009-005001 Promontory fort - coastal
Description
This site lies along the lowlying western shore of the Mullet peninsula in an area of sheep grazing. Rocks thrown up from the sea lie about the immediate area and in the interior of the fort. The promontory fort is covered with old cultivation ridges. The sea is easily accessible from within the fort. Named 'Portnafrankagh' by Westropp. The enormous W-facing headland, an estimated 24 hectares in size, is defended by a curved wall running across its neck. The wall is collapsed and grassed-over, it is 170m long and was originally 1.7m wide. It is 1m high inside and 1.6m high outside and has faint traces of an inner and outer ditch. It is best preserved near the centre, deteriorating at either end. There is no original entrance surviving. The interior of the fort measures circa 600m long and circa 400m wide at its widest point. Near the eastern end traces of four hutsites (MA009-005006-, MA009-005008-, MA009-005010- and MA009-005011-) and two souterrains can be seen. The huts are 3m-4m in diameter and were sub-circular in plan. They survive only as grassed-over collapsed walls of rubble. Two lengths of collapsed souterrain lie nearby. The depressions are 0.5m to 1m deep and 0.5m wide. The walls are intermittently visible and were of drystone construction. These features are nearly totally grown over, and the cultivation of the interior of the fort probably hastened their erosion. No other features are visible within the site. Several earth and stone banks run eastwards from the wall outside the site, but their relationship with the fort is not clear. The poorly preserved internal features of the site contrast sharply with Westropp's description of souterrain with passages and chambers, huts with enclosing walls and lintelled gateways through the main rampart (1912a,210; 1912b,12). These descriptions are derived from the MA thesis of Markus Casey 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway. Date of upload: 5 December 2018
- MA009-005003 Hut site
Description
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- MA009-005004 Souterrain
Description
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- MA009-005005 Hut site
Description
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- MA009-005006 Hut site
Description
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- MA009-005007 Souterrain
Description
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- MA009-005008 Mound
Description
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- MA009-005009 House - indeterminate date
Description
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- MA009-005010 Enclosure
Description
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- MA009-005011 Hut site
Description
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- MA009-006 House - fortified house
Description
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- MA009-006001 Bawn
Description
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- MA009-007001 Church
Description
Located on elevated ground, densely covered in graves, in a graveyard (MA009-007002-). This is the approximate location of a church, which is indicated on the 1838 and 1921 OS 6-inch maps as 'Church' and 'Church (in Ruins)', respectively, and which according to tradition stood at the highest point of the graveyard. There are now no visible remains of the church, but remnants were still visible in the late 19th century, when Westropp (1912, 211-212) noted that ‘Parts of the half-levelled north wall of the church, 3 feet to 5 feet high, remain on a sandy hillock; some blocks of a late fifteenth-century window, with an ogee head [MA009-007003-] and fragments of two (or three) stoups, or basins [MA009-007004-], lie among the graves.’ Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 September 2017
- MA009-007002 Graveyard
Description
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- MA009-007003 Architectural fragment
Description
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- MA009-007004 Architectural fragment
Description
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- MA009-007005 Cross
Description
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- MA009-007006 Enclosure
Description
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Architectural heritage
- Store/warehouse, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted storehouse with half-attic, designed 1892, on a rectangular plan. Decommissioned, 1969. Now disused. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles, and concrete coping to gables on cut-granite "Cavetto" corbel kneelers. Snecked limestone walls with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Camber-headed opening with red brick block-and-start surround framing iron double doors. Camber-headed ventilation loop (gable) with cut-granite flush sill, and red brick block-and-start surround framing louvered fitting. Camber-headed window openings with cut-granite chamfered flush sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds with fittings now boarded-up. Set in unkempt grounds.
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 Termoncarragh, 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 high, 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 Termoncarragh.
- 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 Termoncarragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Termoncarragh · Tearmann Caithreach
- Area
- 3,155,009 m² (315.5 ha, 779.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- An Geata Mór Thuaidh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,014 people lived in 386 households in the An Geata M�r Thuaidh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Termoncarragh 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.