# Illion West, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moyrus, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish An Uillinn Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,660,660 m² (266.07 ha, 657.46 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 44,168 m² (4.42 ha, 10.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Moyrus, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/moyrus.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Illion, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Illion electoral division: 105 people in 39 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18227 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62468 - Centre: latitude 53.513282, longitude -9.700725 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Illion West, from 4,070 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres) to 2,283,864 m² (228.39 ha, 564.35 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2034238: 2,283,864 m² (228.39 ha, 564.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2034238.md - Parcel 2034239: 53,302 m² (5.33 ha, 13.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2034239.md - Parcel 4976936: 52,915 m² (5.29 ha, 13.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4976936.md - Parcel 4976933: 52,576 m² (5.26 ha, 12.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4976933.md - Parcel 2034241: 50,759 m² (5.08 ha, 12.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2034241.md - Parcel 5561880: 44,168 m² (4.42 ha, 10.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5561880.md - Parcel 4688444: 43,739 m² (4.37 ha, 10.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4688444.md - Parcel 5472468: 43,135 m² (4.31 ha, 10.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5472468.md - Parcel 5563171: 28,037 m² (2.8 ha, 6.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5563171.md - Parcel 4692540: 4,158 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4692540.md - Parcel 2034240: 4,070 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2034240.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Illion West 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 Illion West in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Maumturk Mountains SAC, site code 002008, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002008 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumturk Mountains, site code 002008 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Illion West. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Illion West. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Illion West. - 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/illion-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/illion-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/illion-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Illion West 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) - Cloonnacartan: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonnacartan.md - Derryvoreada: https://everytownland.com/galway/derryvoreada.md - Gowlaunlee: https://everytownland.com/galway/gowlaunlee.md - Illion: https://everytownland.com/galway/illion.md - Knockaunbaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockaunbaun-62804.md - Lehanagh North: https://everytownland.com/galway/lehanagh-north.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/illion-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/illion-west