Dowagh East

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dowagh East, from 1,011 m² to 216,972 m² (21.7 ha, 53.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.

• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Dowagh East 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 the townland of Dowagh East.

Recorded monuments

• MA121-097001 Church
  Description

  At foot of low hill in graveyard with large spring and holy well (MA121-097003-) to E. Small oratory (4.8m N-S; 7m E-W) possibly dating in part to the earlier ecclesiastical phase. E gable levelled; little remains of N and S walls (H 2.3m; T 0.7m). Possible entrance (Wth 1m) in W gable. Site much disturbed. 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. 616. Date of upload: 9 January 2015

• MA121-097002 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA121-097003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In wetland, 20m E of Kilfraughaun Church (MA121-097001-). A spring, emerging from under a beech tree, running into a large stream with other water sources. Dedicated to Saint Fursagh. 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. 652. Date of upload: 9 January 2015

Architectural heritage

• Garracloon Lodge, farm house, 1725–1730 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built 1728, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey projecting porch on a bowed plan; single-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey return (north). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1974. Undergoing repair, 2009. Now disused. Part chicken wire-covered pitched oat or straw thatch roof on timber batons on timber construction with half-conical oat or straw thatch roof (porch), grouped exposed stretchers to degraded raised ridge having exposed scallops, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes centred on rendered chimney stack having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops; hipped gabled slate roof (north) with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed roughcast battered walls; rendered surface finish (north). Segmental-headed door opening with cut-limestone threshold, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone Gibbsian surround centred on stop fluted double keystone framing replacement timber panelled door with fanlight now boarded-up. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (north) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-three (west) or two-over-two (east) timber sash windows. Interior including bow-ended hall retaining carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers with carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and plasterwork cornice to ceiling; reception room (west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, chimneypiece, and decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; reception room (east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, chimneypiece, and decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in unkempt landscaped grounds including "haha".

• Mill (water), 1800–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey mill, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan. In use, 1901; 1911. Now disused. Replacement pitched corrugated-iron roof on timber construction with pressed iron ridge, ivy-covered concrete or rendered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on timber eaves boards on cut-limestone eaves. Part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls with tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and tooled cut-limestone voussoirs including tooled cut-limestone relieving arch framing concrete block infill. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and tooled cut-limestone voussoirs framing replacement timber fittings. Set in shared grounds.

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 East, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Dowagh East · Dabhach Thoir

Area

280,813 m² (28.08 ha, 69.39 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 West

Placenames

Dowagh East 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.