Coteenty
Coteenty is a townland in the civil parish of Annaghdown, barony of Clare, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Na Coitiantaí.
- Area
- 169.5 ha
- 419 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 2,797 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coteenty, from 70 m² to 210,400 m² (21.04 ha, 51.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 56 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coteenty 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 May 2026Conditional
for the construction of an extension to an existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660853
2 Apr 2026Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage with a waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660493
28 May 2021Conditional
single storey extension to the front, relocation of the main entrance door to the new extension and interior changes including all associated site works. ross floor space of proposed works sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21937
6 Nov 2018Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, domestic garage together with all associated ancillary facilities. Gross floor space of proposed works: (Dwelling) 176.8 sqm, (Garage) 39.2 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181578
9 Mar 2018Unconditional
to (a) construct extension and all associated site works to the rear of existing dwellinghouse, (b) retain existing extension and elevation changes to existing dwellinghouse, retain domestic garage and existing dwelling and all associated site services (gross floor space proposed 137.6sqm, retention 106.3sqm). (Previous Planning Reference No. 12/635).
Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 18276
8 Jun 2017Conditional
for the construction of new 2 storey dwelling along with garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 309.3sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17814
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coteenty.
Recorded monuments
- GA069-018 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
On a rise in grassland. Subcircular cashel (N-S 41m, E-W 35m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall obscured along NE by dense overgrowth. Two gaps, at S and NE, appear modern. The interior is disturbed and used as a vegetable garden. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coteenty.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Coteenty, about 1 in 5 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 Coteenty.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coteenty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Coteenty · Na Coitiantaí
- Area
- 1,695,462 m² (169.55 ha, 418.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Annaghdown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Annaghdown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,978 people lived in 678 households in the Annaghdown electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagh West, Annaghdown, Cloonleenaun, Lisheenanoran, Tonamace, Woodpark
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Coteenty 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.