Derryvealawauma

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryvealawauma, from 45 m² to 2,167,050 m² (216.71 ha, 535.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Derryvealawauma 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Derryvealawauma in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Maumturk Mountains SAC 002008
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumturk Mountains 002008

Recorded monuments

• GA038-003001 Penitential station
  Description

  At the saddle-point of Mám Éan, the southernmost of the three mountain passes (see also GA024-003----) from the Joyce Country into Connemara proper. Known locally as Tobar Phádraig (GA038-003002-), it consists of a natural spring now situated at NW end of a small oval drystone enclosure (3.1m by 1.2m) with an entrance at SE. This overlies an earlier structure, roughly circular in plan, traces of which are visible beneath the present wall: it also had an entrance at SE. Circa 75m to W, the OS 6-inch map shows 'St. Patrick's Bed' (GA038-003001-), correctly Leaba Phadraig. This consists of a recess in the hillside beside a modern altar. There are also three other penitential stations (GA038-003003-, GA038-003004- and GA038-003005-), consisting of enclosures (5m by 3m, 3m by 2m, 1.5m by 1m) defined by low drystone walls. Their interiors are littered with small stones and pebbles. This well was noted by O'Flaherty in 1684 as a 'remedy for murrein in cattle' (Hardiman 1846, 120-1): it and the enclosures are still frequented on last Sunday in July. A number of modern stations and two oratories are also present. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 43; Killanin 1954, 102; Cosgrave 1913, 180) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 26 May 2016

• GA038-003003 Penitential station
  Description

  At the saddle-point of Mám Éan, the southernmost of the three mountain passes (see also GA024-003----) from the Joyce Country into Connemara proper. Known locally as Tobar Phádraig (GA038-003002-), it consists of a natural spring now situated at NW end of a small oval drystone enclosure (3.1m by 1.2m) with an entrance at SE. This overlies an earlier structure, roughly circular in plan, traces of which are visible beneath the present wall: it also had an entrance at SE. Circa 75m to W, the OS 6-inch map shows 'St. Patrick's Bed' (GA038-003001-), correctly Leaba Phadraig. This consists of a recess in the hillside beside a modern altar. There are also three other penitential stations (GA038-003003-, GA038-003004- and GA038-003005-), consisting of enclosures (5m by 3m, 3m by 2m, 1.5m by 1m) defined by low drystone walls. Their interiors are littered with small stones and pebbles. This well was noted by O'Flaherty in 1684 as a 'remedy for murrein in cattle' (Hardiman 1846, 120-1): it and the enclosures are still frequented on last Sunday in July. A number of modern stations and two oratories are also present. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 43; Killanin 1954, 102; Cosgrave 1913, 180) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 30 May 2016

• GA038-009001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On W-facing hillslope c. 150m NNW of td. boundary and c. 300m E of the junction of the Bun na gCnoc road and the trackway leading to Maumeen and St Patrick's Well (GA038-003002-). An unenclosed oval area (c. 13m by c. 12m) on S side of a knoll within which many small set boulders are visible (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA038-009002 Enclosure
  Description

  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.

• GA038-009003 Field boundary
  Description

  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Derryvealawauma.

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

Name

Derryvealawauma · Doire Bhéal an Mháma

Area

5,803,066 m² (580.31 ha, 1,433.97 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Illion, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Illion electoral division: 105 people in 39 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrslievenaroy, Caher, Derryvoreada, Illion East, Tawnaghmore, Teernakill South

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Derryvealawauma 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.