# Ahaun, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilkerrin, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish An tÁthán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 739,253 m² (73.93 ha, 182.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 30,234 m² (3.02 ha, 7.47 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilkerrin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilkerrin.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Kiltullagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 211 people lived in 79 households in the Kiltullagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19048 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60047 - Centre: latitude 53.56939, longitude -8.604629 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ahaun, from 670 m² to 110,677 m² (11.07 ha, 27.35 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2000955: 110,677 m² (11.07 ha, 27.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000955.md - Parcel 2000951: 110,667 m² (11.07 ha, 27.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000951.md - Parcel 2000950: 76,238 m² (7.62 ha, 18.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000950.md - Parcel 2000947: 52,972 m² (5.3 ha, 13.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000947.md - Parcel 1950470: 50,711 m² (5.07 ha, 12.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950470.md - Parcel 2000944: 44,865 m² (4.49 ha, 11.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000944.md - Parcel 1950469: 43,236 m² (4.32 ha, 10.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950469.md - Parcel 5072051: 37,380 m² (3.74 ha, 9.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5072051.md - Parcel 2000954: 33,724 m² (3.37 ha, 8.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000954.md - Parcel 2000948: 32,027 m² (3.2 ha, 7.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000948.md - Parcel 2000952: 31,276 m² (3.13 ha, 7.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000952.md - Parcel 1950471: 29,191 m² (2.92 ha, 7.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950471.md - Parcel 2000953: 25,962 m² (2.6 ha, 6.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000953.md - Parcel 1950474: 22,812 m² (2.28 ha, 5.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950474.md - Parcel 1950473: 22,173 m² (2.22 ha, 5.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950473.md - Parcel 2000945: 3,575 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000945.md - Parcel 2112687: 3,343 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112687.md - Parcel 1950472: 2,431 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950472.md - Parcel 5090784: 1,916 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5090784.md - Parcel 2000949: 1,543 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000949.md - Parcel 1950475: 1,366 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1950475.md - Parcel 2000946: 670 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2000946.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ahaun in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 24 Feb 2026, Galway County Council 2638: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of mobile home, store, septic tank, percolation area and all associated works (to be removed within 3 years); permission to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2638/0 - 13 Oct 2025, Galway County Council 25277: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/25277/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ahaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ahaun. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ahaun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ahaun, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ahaun. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/ahaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ahaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ahaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ahaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Derreen Upper: https://everytownland.com/galway/derreen-upper.md - Lissacarha: https://everytownland.com/galway/lissacarha.md - Monagormley: https://everytownland.com/galway/monagormley.md - Monairmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/monairmore.md - Park East: https://everytownland.com/galway/park-east.md - Timard: https://everytownland.com/galway/timard.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/ahaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ahaun