Attyshonock

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Attyshonock, from 29 m² to 138,667 m² (13.87 ha, 34.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Attyshonock 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.

• 20 Nov 2025Refused

  to (1) construct an agricultural shed for machinery and feed storage purposes. (2) Internal access roadway to shed (3) all associated siteworks & services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561704

• 19 Jun 2025Refused

  to construct an agricultural shed for machinery and feed storage purposes, access roadway to shed and all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 880.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560798

• 12 Mar 2018Conditional

  for minor elevational changes to dwelling house from that granted under Planning Ref. 16/1506, 16/1134 & 11/1667. Gross floor area 188sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18277

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 Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA081-001 Enclosure
  Description

  On N-facing slope in pastureland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1947) as a enclosure (D c. 30m) cut by field walls at NE and SSW. No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Attyshonock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Attyshonock · Áit Tí Seonac

Area

1,008,250 m² (100.83 ha, 249.14 acres)

Civil parish

Rahoon, and its townlands

Barony

Galway

Electoral division

Barna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Barna electoral division: 3,866 people in 1,287 households; 84% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boleynasruhaun, Brownville, Clooniff, Drum West, Friars Island, Oranhill, Pollagh, Tonacurragh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Attyshonock 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.