Tooraree

301 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooraree, from 7 m² to 96,643 m² (9.66 ha, 23.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 73 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 180 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5Rural Transition (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserver Tier I (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Services/Facilities (Community facilities)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 2 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 Tooraree 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 Tooraree.

Recorded monuments

• MA093-043001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, located on flat ground flanking the S bank of the Mannin River, and overlooked by a low ridge 40m to SW. Horseshoe-shaped mound (5m NE–SW; 4.6m NW–SE; H 0.35m) encompassing a central depression (diam. 1.2m) open to NW. The river bank lies 3m to NNE. A burnt mound and a possible fulacht fia (MA093-043004-; MA093-043005-) are located to NW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 June 2022

• MA093-043002 Mound
  Description

  In pasture flanking the S bank of the Mannin River. Included in the SMR (1991) and RMP (1997) as mound on the basis of information received from a local source (SMR file 1990). No visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 June 2022

• MA093-043003 Bridge
  Description

  Listed in the SMR (1991) and RMP (1997) as ‘Miscellaneous’, this record refers to a possible bridge reported to the SMR by a local source in 1990 A note in SMR file says it might be an ‘ancient’ bridge or a horizontal mill –this suggests that timbers may have been visible here. Deer bones and antler fragments were also found (SMR 1990). No archaeological remains were visible when the location was inspected in 1998. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 June 2022

• MA093-043004 Burnt mound
  Description

  In level pasture flanking the S bank of the Mannin River. When inspected in 1998, patchy traces of shattered stone and charcoal-rich soil were visible intermittently through the thin sod cover, possible the remains of a fulacht fia levelled during land reclamation. It was not possible to determine the limits of the mound. A fulacht fia (MA093-043001-) is located c. 100m to ESE. There is no trace of a third possible fulacht fis (MA093-043005-) located some meters to NW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 June 2022

• MA093-043005 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture flanking the S bank of the Mannin River. According to local information there is a fulacht fia at roughly this location (SMR file 1990). There is no visible trace at ground level. It is one of three fulacht fias noted in this area (See: MA093-043001-; MA093-043004-). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 June 2022

• MA093-050 Enclosure
  Description

  In a pasture field. A circular, embanked enclosure (diam. 30-35m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on the 1916 edition where the location is indicated as ‘Tooraree Race Course’. There is no visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 June 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Tooraree, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_827 (ZIP).

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.

• Tooraree, Ballyhaunis13 sales

Name

Tooraree · Tuar an Fhraoigh

Area

1,611,117 m² (161.11 ha, 398.12 acres)

Civil parish

Bekan, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballyhaunis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,531 people lived in 1,219 households in the Ballyhaunis electoral division. 53% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Bracklaghboy, Carrownluggaun, Gorteen, Hazelhill, Kilmannin

Placenames

Tooraree 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.