Dowagh West

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dowagh West, from 108 m² to 202,222 m² (20.22 ha, 49.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Mar 2023Conditional

  Construct new single storey detached dwelling house with new site entrance, septic tank and wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23167

• 7 May 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING NON-HABITABLE COTTAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21472

• 5 Mar 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21197

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PRIVATE ENTRANCE ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES TO EXISTING PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE TO LANDS AND ASSOCIATED FARM YARD

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20899

• 13 Jun 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19461

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 Dowagh West.

Recorded monuments

• MA121-092 Enclosure
  Description

  In an area of good grazing land, located on an E-W ridge. The site now lies within the bounds of a residential property. A circular enclosure (diam. 35-40m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. On the 1929 edition only the SE arc of the enclosure is indicated. It was recorded by Lavelle (1994, 61, no. 450) as ‘Levelled; no visible surface trace’. In 1999 four trial trenches were excavated (99E0699) at this location in advance of the construction of a dwelling house. No features or artefacts of archaeological significance were found. (Crumlish 2000, 228-229, no. 658). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 January 2015

• MA121-095 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a rise. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure, and on the 1929 edition as a D-shaped enclosure (c. 30m N–S; c. 30m E–W), delineated by hachuring SE-NE and bordered on the straight side at E by a N-S field boundary. Levelled during land reclamation. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 January 2015

• MA121-095001 Field system
  Description

  On a rise, in pasture. Several linear earthen banks enclose some small fields and a possible enclosure. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 570. Date of upload: 8 January 2015

• MA121-096 Enclosure
  Description

  Atop slight rise, in woodland. Circular area (28m N-S; 32m E-W), enclosed by low earthen bank (H 0.25m). Interior contains much vegetation. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 451. Date of upload: 8 January 2015

• MA121-178 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  This record was listed in the SMR (1991) as 'stone sculpture (present location)’ but at that time the location of the stone was unknown and it was not listed in the RMP (1997). It was first recorded in 1867 by Wilde as a carved stone figure which he believed depicted a child. Wilde noted that it was found at ‘Cill Arsa’ or Killursagh church (MA121-137001-) in Ballymacgibbon North townland, but was removed from that church and built into a coach house nearby (O Lochlainn 1968, 157). In 2012 fresh information about the stone came to light. The carving represents not a child but a full figure sheila-na-gig which appears to have suffered damage in the past. It is currently affixed to a wall in the porch of the Roman Catholic church in Cross village in Dowagh townland, c. 800m to NE of its original location (MA121-137002-) at Killursagh church. See attached screenshots of 3D model of Sheela-na-gig created by Digital Heritage Age. 3D model can be accessed on the Sketchfab website at: https://skfb.ly/6qPBX Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 January 2015

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1894. Disused, 2007. Pitched reed or rye straw thatch roof with remains of exposed stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having corbelled stepped stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Roughcast battered walls over coursed rubble limestone construction with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled (north-east) or timber boarded (south-west) doors. Set back from line of road in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having corbelled stepped capping supporting wrought iron gate.

• Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, church/chapel, 1885–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, completed 1890, on a rectangular plan; single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (south) front. Renovated, 1987, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, dragged cut-limestone coping to gables on roll moulded gabled "Cavetto" kneelers with Cross finials to apexes, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed snecked rock faced limestone walls on lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone cushion course on plinth with drag edged rock faced cut-limestone stepped buttresses to corners having lichen-covered drag edged dragged cut-limestone coping. Lancet window openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet "Trinity Window" (south), drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Interior including vestibule (south); pointed segmental-headed door opening into nave with drag edged dragged cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement glazed timber double doors having sidelights below overlight; full-height interior open into roof with stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (south), carpeted central aisle between quatrefoil-detailed timber pews, paired stations between stained glass memorial windows (----), carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (north) reordered, 1987, with cut-veined white marble Classical-style altar, and exposed steel roof construction with wind braced ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds on a wedge-shaped site with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having lichen-covered pyramidal capping supporting looped wrought iron double gates.

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

At the centre of the townland of Dowagh West, 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 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 Dowagh West.

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.

No address of the register names Dowagh West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Dowagh West · Dabhach Thiar

Area

841,553 m² (84.16 ha, 207.95 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Houndswood, the unit of the census

Census 2022

659 people lived in 256 households in the Houndswood electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacgibbon North, Cross West, Dowagh East, Drumelly, Garracloon, Knock North

Placenames

Dowagh 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.