Togher

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Togher, from 22 m² to 486,205 m² (48.62 ha, 120.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Togher 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.

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

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 Togher.

Recorded monuments

• MA100-125 Enclosure
  Description

  Shown on OS map (1838) as part of possible conjoined ringfort (MA100-126----). Levelled, land under cultivation. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 394. Date of upload: 11 February 2013

• MA100-126 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, sloping to S. Circular area (diam. 38m E-W), enclosed by low earthen bank (0.4m), E to W. May have been the S half of a conjoined ringfort. N section (MA100-125----) has been levelled. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 236. Date of upload: 11 February 2013

• MA100-127 Souterrain
  Description

  Isolated, situated in good pasture 200m E of possible conjoined ringfort (MA100-126----). A depression (L 17m E-W; Wth 5.7m), containing stone and rubble, represents a collapsed souterrain. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 532. Date of upload: 11 February 2013

• MA100-128 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on high ground sloping to S. Oval shaped area (40m N-S; 30m E-W), enclosed by low bank (H 0.3m) of earth and stone. Bank curves inwards towards interior at N point, forming 'e' shape; may be entrance feature. Collapsed souterrain (MA100-128001-) in W of interior. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 220. Date of upload: 11 February 2013

• MA100-128001 Souterrain
  Description

  In W of ringfort (MA100-128----). Inaccessible, collapsed souterrain (L 10m E-W; Wth 3.5m). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 533. Date of upload: 11 February 2013

• MA110-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (61m N-S; 56m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.5m), with external fosse (D 2.2m). Gap (Wth 2.3m) in E. Possible entrance (Wth 5.2m) in NE. Bank and fosse heavily overgrown SW to N. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 221. Date of upload: 28 October 2013

• MA110-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a height. Raised, circular area (30m N-S; 30m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.6m) with shallow external fosse (D 0.3m) S to NW. Entrance (Wth 2.3m) with causeway on E. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 222. Date of upload: 28 October 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Togher.

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

Name

Togher · An Tóchar

Area

2,267,185 m² (226.72 ha, 560.23 acres)

Civil parish

Robeen, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Newbrook, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newbrook electoral division: 554 people in 201 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellanaloob, Carrowkilleen, Creggarve, Kilskeagh, Kilvindoney, Knocknadrimna, Lissaniska, Lynchsacres

Placenames

Togher 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.