Doonaun

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonaun, from 37 m² to 49,712 m² (4.97 ha, 12.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Doonaun 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.

• 6 Oct 2023Conditional

  of a dwellinghouse granted under pl. ref. no. 45985, with (a) utility room constructed to the front & side of the existing dwellinghouse, (b) the front porch has been altered/enclosed with minor alterations to plans & elevations over previously granted open porch, (c) doorway installed on the side elevation of the house over previously granted window, (d) additional roof light, (e) existing domestic garage, (f) existing fuel storage shed, (g) existing storage shed, (h) existing outbuilding shed, (i) retention of dwellinghouse/garage/sheds on revised site boundaries & all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361203

• 13 Jun 2019Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Total = 322.7 sqm (House - 262.7 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19899

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 Doonaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA072-033 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle rise in farmland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular enclosure (E-W c. 40m, N-S c. 30m). On 3rd ed. (1932), the words 'Burial Ground' have been appended. What survives is a subcircular area (E-W 60m) bounded by a modern stone wall, the interior of which is still in use as a graveyard. The S part of the original enclosure is now occupied by a carpark. 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

• GA072-033001 Burial ground
  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 Doonaun.

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonaun.

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.

No address of the register names Doonaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Doonaun · An Dúnán

Area

591,671 m² (59.17 ha, 146.21 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Derryglassaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

976 people lived in 332 households in the Derryglassaun electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybaun, Corrandoo, Cuddoo West, Kilbeg

Placenames

Doonaun 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.