Tooreen
Tooreen is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyovey, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Tuairín.
Parcel 2696463
- Area
- 1,550 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 295 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Tooreen
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 146.8 ha
- 363 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 11,511 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooreen, from 78 m² to 119,100 m² (11.91 ha, 29.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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
No zone of a development plan covers Tooreen 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 Dec 2025Conditional
The development will consist of the upgrade of the existing septic tank system, and all associated site development works at Carrowaneeragh, Partry, Co. Mayo, F12 VW18.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560906
14 Jul 2025Conditional
Ciarán & Catherine Hennelly are applying for planning permission for; (i) the demolition of a single storey shed to the west and section of boundary wall to the south of the existing single storey three bedroom bungalow to provide for; (ii) the construction of a new single-storey, pitched roof, residential extension to the south comprising a new entrance, living areas, utility & rooflights to the existing bungalow with new relocated site boundary to the south; (iii) a covered terrace to the south; (iv) elevational alterations and internal reconfiguration of the existing dwelling; and, (v) all ancillary engineering and landscaping works, inclusive of WWTS, necessary to facilitate the development all at Tooreen, Partry, Co. Mayo. F12 XC89.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560469
8 Apr 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: three no. velux style roof lights to front elevation
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2491
6 Mar 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19147
9 Aug 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DRY BEDDED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH INCORPORATED DUNGSTEAD FOR HOUSING LIVESTOCK AND CONSTRUCT A HOLDING PEN AND CATTLE CRUSH FACILITY ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17642
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 Area of Conservation: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
- Special Protection Area: Lough Mask SPA 004062
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774
Recorded monuments
- MA109-016 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough pasture, on E-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 33m N-S), heavily overgrown, enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.1m). Gap (L 8m) in bank, on E. 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. 223. Date of upload: 22 February 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tooreen.
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 Tooreen, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tooreen.
- 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 Tooreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Tooreen · An Tuairín
- Area
- 1,467,877 m² (146.79 ha, 362.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyovey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Portroyal, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 603 people lived in 220 households in the Portroyal electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghinish, Carrowaneeragh, Carrowmoney, Cloonlagheen, Derradda, Knocknagool
- Placenames
- Tooreen 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.