Oughtagh

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oughtagh, from 269 m² to 152,933 m² (15.29 ha, 37.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Oughtagh 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.

• 10 Jun 2024Conditional

  construction of an extension to the rear of dwelling house, to retain the existing extension to the side of the dwelling and garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24215

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 Oughtagh.

Recorded monuments

• MA071-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a ridge at the break of slope on SW side, overlooking the Cloonlee River. There are extensive views over rolling pastureland. This rath is named ‘Lismore’ on the 1838 and 1931 OS 6-inch maps. It is indicated on the 1838 edition as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) bordered at W by a road and at NW by a field boundary; by the time of the 1930 edition it is depicted as a D-shaped area, indicating that the E half of the rath has been removed in the intervening period. The remains consist of a slightly raised, roughly D-shaped area (33.5m NW-SE; 14m NE-SW) defined on curving side SE−N by a substantial scarp (ext. H 2m at S). At SSW-N the scarp has been incorporated into a field fence, outside which a farm track skirts the site. The straight side to NE is defined by scarp (H 0.80m) with a slight internal lip at its SE end suggesting it may have been incorporated into a field bank. The interior is level and grassy. There is a possible souterrain (MA071-001001-), evident as a linear surface depression (Wth 2-3.7m; D 0.6m), in the SW quadrant. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 June 2021

• MA071-001001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of a rath (MA071-001----). A linear surface depression (Wth 2-3.7m; D 0.6m) extends for 9m from the rath scarp at SW through the interior to NE. At its SW end a stone slab projects horizontally from the external face of the rath scarp at a depth of c. 1m below the interior surface. These features may indicate a souterrain. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 June 2021

• MA071-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on rise with extensive views over rolling grassland and expanse of wetland. Raised circular area (35.3m E−W; 37.7m N−S) defined by an earthen bank/scarp. The bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2m at N) retains a low internal rim on the N arc and at SE, and has a broad external slump at NE−E; it is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m at S, 2.2m at E) elsewhere. An earth and stone field fence (Wth 4.4m at W, 3.5m at S; int. H 1.4m at S, 1.5m at W; ext. H 0.7m at S, 1.6m at W) curves around the rath at S−NW. It has a broad internal slump at S-SW and has stone facing on its inner slope on the NW arc. This may be an original external bank which was modified and incorporated into the field fence. The intervening gap (Wth 4.4m at W, 3.5m at S) between it and the rath platform may preserve the outline of a fosse. There is a low slumped section (Wth 2.7m) in the scarp at SE, possibly the location of an original entrance. The interior has a slight slope down from centre to S−SE. Relict cultivation ridges, oriented E-W, are visible in the N half of the interior. Gorse and hawthorn bushes grow around the rath perimeter; the interior is grassy. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 August 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Oughtagh, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Oughtagh · Ochtú

Area

1,177,863 m² (117.79 ha, 291.06 acres)

Civil parish

Templemore, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Strade, the unit of the census

Census 2022

647 people lived in 239 households in the Strade electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardacarha, Ardcloon, Ashbrook, Ballylahan, Carrowcastle, Cloonconra, Gorteen

Placenames

Oughtagh 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.