Tullaghanbaun
Tullaghanbaun is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Tulachán Bán.
- Area
- 182 ha
- 450 acres
- Land parcels
- 150
- registered freehold, median 6,857 m² (0.69 ha, 1.69 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
150 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullaghanbaun, from 55 m² to 74,074 m² (7.41 ha, 18.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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
- M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 May 2026N/a
The development shall consist of planning permission for the erection of a dwelling house, installation of a proprietary treatment unit including a percolation/tertiary area, upgrade of the existing entrance and to include all other ancillary site services and development works associated with this permission as per the application documentation.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660408
1 Sept 2025Conditional
Construction of a MUGA (Multi Use Games Area) on the site of the current basketball court. This will consist of a fence, basketball baskets and football goals and all associated necessary equipment
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25369
8 May 2025N/a
The development shall consist of planning permission for the erection of a dwelling house, installation of a proprietary treatment unit including a percolation/tertiary area, upgrade of the existing entrance and to include all other ancillary site services and development works associated with this permission as per the application documentation.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560279
26 Oct 2023Conditional
Planning permission to partly demolish existing entrance hall / link corridor and construct a new entrance hall / link corridor, together with all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360449
7 Oct 2022Conditional
PART DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING STRUCTURE LOCATED TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES ADN DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22877
24 Apr 2019N/a
Renovation of existing sheds into private creative arts studio with accommodation, proprietary sewage treatment system, connection to services and all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19293
17 Feb 2017Conditional
EXTEND AND REFURBISH AN EXISTING DWELLING, INCLUDING A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND THE UPGRADE OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. THE PROPOSED WORK IS TO INCLUDE THE DEMOLITION OF A SMALL OUTBUILDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORK
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1790
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 Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
- Natural Heritage Area: Tullaghan Bay And Bog NHA 001567
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tullaghanbaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tullaghanbaun.
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 Tullaghanbaun, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tullaghanbaun.
- 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 Tullaghanbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Tullaghanbaun · Tulachán Bán
- Area
- 1,819,700 m² (181.97 ha, 449.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- Rathhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 695 people lived in 285 households in the Rathhill electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Doohooma, Roy, Tullaghanduff
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Tullaghanbaun 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.