Canower

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Canower, from 328 m² to 455,178 m² (45.52 ha, 112.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 Canower 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.

• 15 May 2023Conditional

  for the development consisting of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360512

• 12 Oct 2022Conditional

  a)partial demolition of existing house; b)single story extension to existing house; c)a new shed and d)all associated site works.Gross floor space of proposed works in 96.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261019

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  for a) demolition of existing porch, b) a single storey side extension to existing house c) all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 77 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 2.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21490

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  for a) a new wastewater treatment system and b) all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201768

• 24 May 2017Conditional

  for a) a single storey extension to the rear of existing cottage, b) new proprietary waste water treatment system and filtration area, and c) all associated demolition and site works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 75 sqm., gross floor space of works for demolition: 6 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17733

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: Rosroe Bog SAC 000324
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rosroe Bog 000324

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Canower.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Canower, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, 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 Canower.

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 Canower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Canower · Ceannúir

Area

1,179,195 m² (117.92 ha, 291.39 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Moyrus, the unit of the census

Census 2022

334 people lived in 139 households in the Moyrus electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Lettercaumus, Rosroe, Tawnaghbaun

Placenames

Canower 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.