# Bottom, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monivea, barony of Athenry, Co. Galway; in Irish An Tóin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 409,919 m² (40.99 ha, 101.29 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,919 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Monivea, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/monivea.md - Barony: Athenry - Electoral division: Athenry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Athenry electoral division: 5,765 people in 2,069 households; 67% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19606 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60624 - Centre: latitude 53.277616, longitude -8.730805 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bottom, from 31 m² to 81,598 m² (8.16 ha, 20.16 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1936211: 81,598 m² (8.16 ha, 20.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936211.md - Parcel 2016275: 79,996 m² (8 ha, 19.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016275.md - Parcel 2950702: 61,493 m² (6.15 ha, 15.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2950702.md - Parcel 2016273: 61,469 m² (6.15 ha, 15.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016273.md - Parcel 1936210: 22,825 m² (2.28 ha, 5.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936210.md - Parcel 5417035: 21,246 m² (2.12 ha, 5.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5417035.md - Parcel 4875102: 17,572 m² (1.76 ha, 4.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4875102.md - Parcel 4875115: 16,166 m² (1.62 ha, 3.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4875115.md - Parcel 4861654: 13,049 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4861654.md - Parcel 4671404: 11,665 m² (1.17 ha, 2.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4671404.md - Parcel 4671396: 6,731 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4671396.md - Parcel 1936212: 3,133 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936212.md - Parcel 4861640: 3,022 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4861640.md - Parcel 2950699: 2,816 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2950699.md - Parcel 4872499: 2,464 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4872499.md - Parcel 4457342: 2,169 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457342.md - Parcel 2016274: 1,125 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016274.md - Parcel 4861637: 879 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4861637.md - Parcel 4671384: 397 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4671384.md - Parcel 3202540: 385 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3202540.md - Parcel 4789632: 383 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4789632.md - Parcel 4789624: 220 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4789624.md - Parcel 4671367: 216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4671367.md - Parcel 2950698: 94 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2950698.md - Parcel 4789610: 36 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4789610.md - Parcel 4789608: 31 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4789608.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Bottom 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) 1 application, newest first. - 28 Apr 2022, Galway County Council 22566: Refused. Permission. to create a new centre of excellence for both soccer and hockey. The project is a joint junction between Galway United Football Club and the Connacht Hockey Association. The proposal is to create modern training facilities for both associations. The work entails the following: a) The widening, realigning and upgrading of the existing farmyard entrance onto the R347, b) Demolition of the existing agricultural sheds and farm yard, c) Construction of new internal roads, paths, street lighting, parking areas, three free standing shelters, fencing, landscaping, ESB sub-station, signage proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, d) Construction a single two storey sports centre including dressing rooms, gym, canteens, meeting rooms, offices, toilets', storage areas and ancillary rooms. e) The creation of a solar panel field and the erection of wind turbines to power the centre of excellence. f) The creation of three grass based soccer pitches and three astro based soccer pitches plus associated storage facilities and floodlighting, g) The creation of two hockey pitches plus associated storage facilities and floodlighting, h) The creation of two fully enclosed soccer astro pitches, I) The creation of a fully enclosed soccer dome including changing rooms and seating facilities, j) The creation of two multi purpose areas to cater for other sports eg tennis, volleyball etc. k) The creation of an embankment for hill training. Gross floor space of proposed works: 16,800 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 138 sqm (sheds). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/22566/0 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 Bottom. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA096-013: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA096-013----. On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland prone to flooding. Poorly preserved pear-shaped enclosure (21.3m E-W; c. 13m N-S) defined by a very low and wide grassed-over bank of earth and stone. (Cody 1989, 296, no. 120) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 July 2019 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bottom. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_869, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_869.zip (ZIP). - 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/bottom.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/bottom.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/bottom.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bottom 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) - Boyhill: https://everytownland.com/galway/boyhill.md - Loobroe: https://everytownland.com/galway/loobroe.md - Mountain South: https://everytownland.com/galway/mountain-south.md - Moyode: https://everytownland.com/galway/moyode.md - Toberconnelly: https://everytownland.com/galway/toberconnelly.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/bottom - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/bottom