# Carnaun, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish An Carnán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 236,609 m² (23.66 ha, 58.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 59,924 m² (5.99 ha, 14.81 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tuam, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/tuam.md - Barony: Dunmore - Electoral division: Killeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Killeen electoral division: 734 people in 245 households; 94% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% 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/21746 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60895 - Centre: latitude 53.559638, longitude -8.85929 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Carnaun, from 59,924 m² (5.99 ha, 14.81 acres) to 59,924 m² (5.99 ha, 14.81 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1951421: 59,924 m² (5.99 ha, 14.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1951421.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Carnaun 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) No planning application touches the townland of Carnaun in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Carnaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA029-032: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA029-032----. On E slope of an esker ridge. As quare area (L/Wth c. 14m) with traces of a possible enclosing wall at SW; a modern field wall forms NW boundary. Within the interior, tow rows of small set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 65) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA029-033: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA029-033----. Just off the summit, on N slope of a hillock in undulating farmland. Named on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1926-7) as 'Souterrain'. All that is now visible is one lintel protruding from the sod on E side of a stone-strewn depression. Its long axis (L 1.15m) runs N-S suggesting a passage running E-W. There is a local tradition of a 'fort' on the hillock, but no visible surface trace of any earthwork survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA029-033001: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA029-033001-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. - GA029-034: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA029-034----. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a semicircular enclosure (D c. 40m) curving from NW through E to SE and cut by the td. boundary at NW and SE. Not visited. Its location is incorrectly marked on SMR. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 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 Carnaun. ## 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carnaun. - 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/carnaun-60895.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/carnaun-60895.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/carnaun-60895.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Carnaun 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) - Ballytrasna: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballytrasna.md - Carrowbaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowbaun-60914.md - Curraghaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/curraghaun-61662.md - Meelick West: https://everytownland.com/galway/meelick-west.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/carnaun-60895 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/carnaun-60895