Turlough

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turlough, from 67 m² to 51,095 m² (5.11 ha, 12.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Turlough 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 Apr 2026Conditional

  alterations and extension to dwelling house and the replacement of the existing septic tank and percolation area with a new septic tank treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2685

• 7 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW GARAGE/STORE INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO SIDE OF EXISTING HOUSE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17433

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 Turlough.

Recorded monuments

• MA092-056 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, located on a fairly level area on the SW-facing slope of a ridge. Indicated as ‘Cromlech’ on the 1838 and 1917 OS 6-inch maps. Low, flat-topped, roughly circular grass-grown mound (diam. 6.3m; H 0.2m at NE, 0.7m at SW). A single large stone is visible at the edge of the mound at W and a prostrate stone protrudes from the top surface at N. Two hawthorn bushes grow on the SW side. DeValera and O' Nuallain (1964, 99) assessed this monument, noting that it was used as a dump for field clearance stone, and concluded that ‘It cannot on present evidence be accepted as the site of a megalithic tomb.’ Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 May 2022

• MA092-106 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, in an expanse of level wet, boggy ground, overlooked by a ridge to S. An E−W road borders the S side of the field a few meters to S of the mound. A sod-covered, roughly horseshoe-shaped mound (11.6m N–S; 8m E–W; H 0.45m at S, 0.6m at N) with a shallow depression at NE between the arms of the mound, which probably indicates the location of a trough. The mound is composed of characteristically angular heat-shattered stones in black, charcoal-rich peaty soil. An old field drain clips the SW edge of the mound. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 May 2022

• MA092-107 Enclosure
  Description

  This record was not recorded in the SMR (1991). It was listed in RMP (1997) as a possible ringfort on the basis of information received in 1993 from a local source (SMR file). This location consists of a field (c. 45-50m N–S; c. 30m E–W) of flat, featureless ground covered in rough grass and occasional clumps of willow scrub and brambles. To W and N the field is bordered by straight field boundaries outside which lie roads. On the E side of the field the ground drops into to pool/wet marshy ground surrounded by trees and scrub. On the S of the area, the ground level slopes down gently to an old, grass-covered E−W trackway/road. There is no trace of the reported 'earthen banks' and no convincing evidence that there is an enclosure/ringfort here. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 May 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Turlough · An Turlach

Area

610,866 m² (61.09 ha, 150.95 acres)

Civil parish

Bekan, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Bekan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bekan electoral division: 776 people in 281 households; 90% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonacurry, Erriff, Greenwood, Knockaunacat, Reask

Placenames

Turlough 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.