Tonatleva
Tonatleva is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgeever, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Tóin an tSléibhe.
- Area
- 385.8 ha
- 953 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 190,512 m² (19.05 ha, 47.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonatleva, from 14,880 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres) to 2,328,839 m² (232.88 ha, 575.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Tonatleva 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
19 Aug 2025Conditional
3. Planning Permission is being sought for construction of a photovoltaic ground-mounted solar array, mounted on lightweight galvanised frames. The works to include a 175m long underground trench to connect the solar array to the existing above-ground Plant Room. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. The Natura Impact Statement will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy during office hours at the office of the relevant planning authority.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560565
12 Aug 2025N/a
3. Planning Permission is being sought for construction of a photovoltaic ground-mounted solar array, mounted on lightweight galvanised frames. The works to include a 175m long underground trench to connect the solar array to the existing above-ground Plant Room.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560541
1 Aug 2025N/a
3. Planning Permission is being sought for construction of a photovoltaic ground-mounted solar array, mounted on lightweight galvanised frames. The works to include a 175m long underground trench to connect the solar array to the existing above-ground Plant Room.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560516
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tonatleva.
Architectural heritage
- Delphi Bridge, bridge, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch hump back road bridge over river, dated 1823. Damaged, 1922. "Restored", 1924. "Repaired", 2011. Part repointed tuck pointed coursed or snecked rubble stone walls between "bas-relief" piers with tooled cut-sandstone stringcourses supporting parapets having tooled cut-limestone coping centred on precast concrete (north) or "Guilloche"-detailed cut-limestone (south) date stones ("1924"; "1823"). Single elliptical arch with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Bundorragha River with 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 Tonatleva, 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 Tonatleva.
- 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 Tonatleva with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Tonatleva · Tóin an tSléibhe
- Area
- 3,858,427 m² (385.84 ha, 953.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgeever, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Bundorragha, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bundorragha, Derreennanalbanagh, Derreennawinshin, Glenconnelly, Lettereeragh, Tawnyinlough, Tawnynoran
- Placenames
- Tonatleva 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.