Tonregee West
Townland in the civil parish of Achill, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Tóin re Gaoth Thiar
- Area
- 228.7 ha
- 565 acres
- Land parcels
- 104
- registered freehold, median 5,866 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonregee West, from 19 m² to 189,050 m² (18.91 ha, 46.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tonregee West 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
20 Jul 2026N/a
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND TERTIARY POLISHING FILTER
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660577
28 Aug 2025Conditional
(1) permission for retention of ‘as constructed’ dwelling house and (2) planning permission to (a) raise roof level of existing dwelling house and (b) construct extensions to front, side and rear of existing house at Tonregee West, Achill, County Mayo. F28 K285
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560593
15 Jul 2025Conditional
retain existing as built dwelling house, septic tank and detached garage, together with all ancillary site services
Retention · Mayo County Council, 25286
12 Jun 2024N/a
construction of a sheep shed and fodder storage shed and all ancillary works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24231
13 May 2024Conditional
Permission For A Change Of House Plan To That Originally Granted Planning Permission Under Planning Reference Nos P211230
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460287
15 Sept 2022Conditional
EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22794
24 Nov 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER/PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211230
19 Aug 2021Conditional
RETENTION OF AS CONSTRUCTED DWELLING HOUSE. THE DWELLING HOUSE WAS PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE P03/2267
Retention · Mayo County Council, 21899
24 May 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18382
3 Nov 2017Conditional
ESSENTIAL REPAIRS TO EXISTING 38KV LINE BETWEEN NEWPORT STATION AND ACHILL STATION. WORKS WILL INCLUDE REPLACING EXISTING DOUBLE WOOD POLES, STAYS AND HEADGEAR IN THE TOWNLANDS OF CARRICKANEADY, CLOONESHIL, DRUMLONG, CAMCLOON, DERRYLOUGHAN, DERRINTAGGART, KILTARNAGH, SHANVALLYHUGH, DERRADA, DERRYCOOLDRIM, CARROWSALLAGH, KNOCKBREAGA, TIERNAUR, ROSSGALIV, ROSSTUR, BUNNAHOWN, MURREVAGH, MALLARANNY, COIS LEICE, AN ABHAINN DUBH, TON RE GAOTH, POLL RAITHNI
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17872
23 Oct 2017Conditional
RETENTION OF DRY STORAGE SHED AND TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED
Retention · Mayo County Council, 17838
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tonregee West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tonregee West.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch railway bridge over stream, opened 1895. Closed, 1934. Reopened, 1936. Closed, 1937. Now disused. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone battered abutment walls with rock faced hammered sandstone "battlemented" coping. Single round arch with drag edged rock faced sandstone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning stream with unkempt embankments to stream.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tonregee West.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tonregee West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Tonregee West · Tóin re Gaoth Thiar
- Area
- 2,286,807 m² (228.68 ha, 565.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Achill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Corraun, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Corraun electoral division: 712 people in 279 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cartron, Pollranny (Lynchaghan), Tonregee East
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Tonregee West 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.