Toorgarve
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmaclasser, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Tuar Garbh
- Area
- 45.6 ha
- 113 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 6,936 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toorgarve, from 121 m² to 147,104 m² (14.71 ha, 36.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Toorgarve 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
10 Feb 2025Conditional
Planning permission for development at Fahy National School, Toorgrave, Fahy, Westport, Co. Mayo comprising Extensions and alterations to existing School, to provide additional mainstream and special needs accommodation, together with all ancillary siteworks and services including a new temporary access onto the public road for construction, as well as Permission to retain and upgrade existing proprietary effluent treatment system. (Height of proposed building 4.5 metres)
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560062
6 Sept 2024Conditional
construction of a private dwelling house, domestic garage and proprietary effluent treatment unit and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24367
11 Jan 2023Conditional
Permission for a change of house type to previously granted P21/805 and permission for a domestic garage along with all associated site development works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360005
7 Nov 2022N/a
Change of house type and change of garage type to previously granted P21/805 and all associated site development works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22992
26 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUNT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WTIH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21805
20 Jun 2018Refused
Construct dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18448
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 Toorgarve.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toorgarve.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toorgarve.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Toorgarve.
- 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 Toorgarve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Toorgarve · An Tuar Garbh
- Area
- 456,089 m² (45.61 ha, 112.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmaclasser, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Kilmaclasser, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmaclasser electoral division: 686 people in 230 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghagowla Beg, Brockagh, Drumgar, Drumgoney, Fahy More, Gortnaclassagh, Lugnafahy
- Placenames
- Toorgarve 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.