Doonaree
Doonaree is a townland in the civil parish of Killallaghtan, barony of Kilconnell, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Dún an Fhraoigh.
- Area
- 87.6 ha
- 217 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 4,753 m² (0.48 ha, 1.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonaree, from 170 m² to 193,619 m² (19.36 ha, 47.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Doonaree 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
8 Aug 2022Refused
to demolish old house/store and construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 268.02sqm Garage/fuel shed: 53.94sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22952
24 Mar 2022Conditional
for the construction of new dwelling along with garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works all . Gross floor space of proposed works 230 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260269
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 Doonaree.
Recorded monuments
- GA098-095 Barrow - unclassified
Description
On a prominent hill in grassland, c. 500m SW of Cappataggle village. A subcircular barrow (N-S 13.2, E-W 11.5m), in fair condition, consisting of an earthen bank (Wth 4.9m max., Helm ext), best preserved from E through S to SW, which encloses a slightly hollow interior. 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 Doonaree.
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 Doonaree, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonaree.
- 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 Doonaree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Doonaree · Dún an Fhraoigh
- Area
- 876,383 m² (87.64 ha, 216.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killallaghtan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilconnell
- Electoral division
- Killallaghtan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 512 people lived in 178 households in the Killallaghtan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymabilla, Cappataggle, Cartronsheela, Eastwell, Gortnahoon, Lackagh, Toormore
- Placenames
- Doonaree 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.