Doonreaghan

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonreaghan, from 77 m² to 165,931 m² (16.59 ha, 41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 4 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 Doonreaghan 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.

• 17 Oct 2023Refused

  for construction of a new dwellinghouse with garage & wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361239

• 8 Apr 2022N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house with garage and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 149sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22480

• 22 Mar 2019Conditional

  for a dwelling house and private wastewater treatment system as constructed with the removal of the lifetime enurement clause. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 224 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19415

• 25 Jan 2019N/a

  for a dwelling house and private wastewater treatment system as constructed with the removal of the lifetime enurement clause. Gross floor space of work to be retained: (Dwelling) 224 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 19106

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: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Doonreaghan.

Architectural heritage

• Doon House, house, 1785–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with dormers, built 1790, extended to south-east by further two-bay section and by further slightly higher single-bay part with two-storey canted-bay windows, former having gabled porch, and extensions to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with plinth. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows. L-plan outbuildings to north.

• Boathouse, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted single-storey boathouse, built c.1800. Now vacant and formerly used as store for kelp. Pitched corrugated asbestos roof with concrete coping. Coursed granite rubble walls with roughly squared quoins. Camber-headed door opening to north-west gable with rubble granite voussoirs and metal sheet closure. Boathouse is built into living rock. Rubble stone slipway to site.

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 5 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 Doonreaghan.

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

Name

Doonreaghan · Dún Riacháin

Area

657,708 m² (65.77 ha, 162.52 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Moyrus, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moyrus electoral division: 334 people in 139 households; 82% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel, Glencrees, Lettercaumus, Scrahallia

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Doonreaghan 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.