Dringeen Oughter

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dringeen Oughter, from 173 m² to 172,645 m² (17.26 ha, 42.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Dringeen Oughter 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.

• 16 Jun 2023Conditional

  construct a building for use ancillary to the dwelling house as overflow accommodation and to provide a new upgraded proprietary effluent treatment unit and percolation area to serve both the proposed development and existing dwelling house combined, along with all associated services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23335

• 28 May 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A GARAGE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21559

• 6 Sept 2019Conditional

  RETENTION OF THE CHANGE OF 4 NO. WINDOW DESIGN FROM VELUX TO DORMER WINDOWS ON THE EXISTING DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 19699

• 25 Mar 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19203

• 7 Mar 2018Conditional

  RETAIN DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 18145

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: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
• Special Protection Area: Lough Mask SPA 004062
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774

Recorded monuments

• MA120-015 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, with woodland to S. Shown on OS map (1929) as circular enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 60m). Levelled; no visible surface traces. 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. 453. Date of upload: 25 February 2014

• MA120-036 Enclosure
  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.

• MA120-037 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. Circular area (est. max. diam. c. 35m) on aerial photograph (GSI M 181 -2; Roll 197, pr. 31) surrounded by cropmark of fosse. No visible surface traces. 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. 455. Date of upload: 15 October 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dringeen Oughter, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Dringeen Oughter · Droingín Uachtarach

Area

1,133,378 m² (113.34 ha, 280.06 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Cong, the unit of the census

Census 2022

994 people lived in 325 households in the Cong electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykine Lower, Ballykine Upper, Breandrim (Co. Galway), Dringeen Eighter, Dringeen Middle, Gorteenroe

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Dringeen Oughter 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.