Dundoogan

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dundoogan, from 326 m² to 126,384 m² (12.64 ha, 31.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Dundoogan 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 Mar 2017Conditional

  to construct a four bay Single slatted shed with creep area. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 265 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17302

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 Dundoogan.

Recorded monuments

• GA074-045 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In grassland. A subcircular rath (N-S 60m, E-W 52m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A collapsed stone wall overlies the inner bank from NW through N to E. The outer bank survives from SW through W to NW. Quarrying has destroyed the enclosing, elements from S to SW. There is a probable souterrain (GA074-045001-) in the 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

• GA074-045001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA074-045----). What is visible is a grassy Z-shaped linear depression (L 26m, Wth 1.8m) up to 1m in depth. Beginning just inside the rath bank at NNE, it runs S (L 9m) an then turns sharply to W to take up an E-W axis (L 10m). It then turns sharply to S again continuing on a N-S axis (L 7m). 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 Dundoogan.

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

At the centre of the townland of Dundoogan, 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 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 Dundoogan.

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

Name

Dundoogan · Dún gCuagáin

Area

833,948 m² (83.39 ha, 206.07 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgerrill, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Aughrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

576 people lived in 198 households in the Aughrim electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagh, Cloonigny, Ellagh, Highfield, Lissard, Srah

Placenames

Dundoogan 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.