Doontrusk

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doontrusk, from 496 m² to 1,282,845 m² (128.28 ha, 317 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Doontrusk 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Doontrusk 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Clew Bay Complex SAC 001482
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482

Recorded monuments

• MA067-010 Crannog
  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.

• MA067-054 Promontory fort - inland
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Worker's house, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey crossing guard's lodge, commissioned 1894; extant 1897, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to advanced porch. Decommissioned, 1934. Recommissioned, 1936[?]. Decommissioned, 1937[?]. Renovated to accommodate continued private residential use. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on lean-to slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with rock-faced cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road.

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 Doontrusk, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Doontrusk · Dún Troisc

Area

1,905,898 m² (190.59 ha, 470.96 acres)

Civil parish

Burrishoole, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Newport East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,318 people lived in 516 households in the Newport East electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derradda, Derrycooldrim, Lettermaghera South

Placenames

Doontrusk 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.