Halfmace

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Halfmace, from 24 m² to 95,577 m² (9.56 ha, 23.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Halfmace 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.

• 10 May 2024Conditional

  for the erection of a meteorological mast at Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station. The development will consist of: i. The erection of a 12m high lattice type tiltable meteorological mast which will be affixed to the ground by cast-in bolts, and will include instruments for meteorological measurement and air sampling, ii. A hardstanding platform area, iii. All associated and ancillary development and site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460536

• 17 Oct 2018Conditional

  chun pairt don teach atá ann cheanna fein a leagainn and síneadh stór amhain a chuir amach as an tí ag cúl agus ag taobh an tí, chomh maith le athrú a dheanamh ar díon an tí atá an theana féin agus athrú are leagan amach an tí chomh maith le uasghradrú a dheanamh ar an gcorás searachais agus cead chun garaiste nua a thogail agus aon oibreacha suíomh a bhaineann leis an tógáil. Spás urláir na n-oibreacha beartaithe: teach - 224.9sqm, garáiste - 54sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181469

• 3 May 2018Refused

  chun síneadh stór amhain a chuir amach as an tí ag cúl agus ag taobh an tí, chomh maith le athrú a dheanamh ar díon an tí atá an theana féin agus athrú are leagan amach an tí chomh maith le uasghradú a dheanamh ar an gcorás searachais agus aon oibreacha suíomh a bhaineann leis an tógáil. Gross floor space of proposed works (tí) 241.1 sqm. (garáiste) 54 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition 62.15 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18560

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: Kilkieran Bay and Islands SAC 002111
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Halfmace.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Halfmace.

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 Halfmace, about 1 in 5 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 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 Halfmace.

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

Name

Halfmace · An Leathmhás

Area

509,955 m² (51 ha, 126.01 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Knockboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

875 people lived in 319 households in the Knockboy electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dooyeher, Mace

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Halfmace 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.