Cloonavihony

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonavihony, from 264 m² to 215,751 m² (21.58 ha, 53.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 49 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 Cloonavihony 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.

• 21 Apr 2025Conditional

  to demolish existing extensions (single and two story) and to construct new single story extension within same footprint to rear of house, also permission to reconstruct/upgrade existing original two story house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 32.30 sqm(extension). Gross floor space of any demolition: 51.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560447

• 29 Mar 2022Conditional

  Alterations/Extensions to Existing Dwelling House including: A: Proposed Porch to Front Elevation, B: Proposed Extension to Rear at Ground Floor Level, C: Proposed Conversion of Bungalow to Dormer Type Dwelling, Proposed Garage/Storage Shed, Proposed upgrade of existing septic tank to proposed proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 117.30sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260290

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonavihony.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloonavihony.

Architectural heritage

• Windfield Bridge, bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch road bridge, built c.1860, over River Shiven. Segmental arches with cut limestone voussoirs to arch rings, coursed random rubble limestone to spandrels. Triangular cutwaters to north-west face with pyramidal copings and ashlar plinths, four-sided ashlar cutwater to south-west arch with stone coping. Random rubble parapet with chamfered cement coping, cement render to inner face of parapet. Random rubble fieldstone walls to adjacent fields.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Cloonavihony.

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

Name

Cloonavihony · Cluain Mhic an Bhithiúnaigh

Area

1,835,089 m² (183.51 ha, 453.46 acres)

Civil parish

Killian, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynakill electoral division: 647 people in 225 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlass, Ballynalahy, Carrownagappul, Lahacrogher, Tirur, Tonacurra, Windfield, Woodbrook

Placenames

Cloonavihony 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.