# Dooneen, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish An Dúinín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 114,204 m² (11.42 ha, 28.22 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,601 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballynakill-clifden-ra.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Ballynakill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 516 people lived in 204 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18033 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61854 - Centre: latitude 53.555578, longitude -10.037275 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooneen, from 1,831 m² to 35,318 m² (3.53 ha, 8.73 acres); 4 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1932256: 35,318 m² (3.53 ha, 8.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932256.md - Parcel 1932254: 20,063 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932254.md - Parcel 1932255: 14,848 m² (1.48 ha, 3.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932255.md - Parcel 2020483: 6,354 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020483.md - Parcel 2020484: 2,380 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020484.md - Parcel 4455866: 1,831 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4455866.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Dooneen in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Dooneen in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dooneen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA022-122: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA022-122----. On the shore of a small headland at the NE end of Ballynakill Lough, in an area of rough pastureland sloping to the SW. The land rises steeply to Maumfin hill to the NW. There are good views to the S and particularly to the W. This possible earthen rath (39.9m N-S; 32.6m E-W), subcircular in plan, is defined by a scarp from N through E to S and W and by traces of a bank (int. H 0.2m; Wth 0.8m; base Wth 2.15m; ext. H 0.45m), fosse (Wth 1.35m) and counterscarp bank (H 0.15m) from W to N. The monument is clear of overgrowth and lazy beds run across it in an ENE-WSW direction. The interior rises towards the centre where there is some evidence of disturbance. A number of large burrow holes are also visible. The enclosing scarp is truncated at SW where a subrectangular structure (GA022-122001-) was built against it. There is an enclosure (GA022-075----) c. 120m to the S on a small promontory jutting into the lake. The monument was brought to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Helen Riekstiņš. The following images have been uploaded: GA022-122----_01.jpg W sector from S GA022-122----_02.jpg View from SW Compiled by: Olive Alcock Edited by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 13 June 2023 - GA022-122001: Structure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA022-122001-. This subrectangular structure (int. dims. 5.9m NW-SE; 3.8m NE-SW) has been built against the enclosing element of a possible rath (GA022-122----) at SW. It is defined by traces of a low bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.17m; ext. H 0.15m) most clearly evident along the N and S sides. It may be associated with the rath. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 5 May 2017 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dooneen. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Dooneen, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Dooneen. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/dooneen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/dooneen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/dooneen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dooneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cartron: https://everytownland.com/galway/cartron-61048.md - Clooncree: https://everytownland.com/galway/clooncree.md - Maumfin: https://everytownland.com/galway/maumfin.md - Tooreen: https://everytownland.com/galway/tooreen-64072.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/dooneen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/dooneen