Keerhaun North

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keerhaun North, from 487 m² to 132,800 m² (13.28 ha, 32.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Keerhaun North 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.

• 9 May 2024N/a

  for: (1) the installation of a new waste water treatment system with associated works, (2) Retention permission for change of use from agricultural building to residential dwelling with minor design changes. A Natura Impact Statement will accompany this application. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 70.60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460520

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: Slyne Head Peninsula SAC 002074
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slyne Head Peninsula 002074

Recorded monuments

• GA035-078 Weir - fish
  Description

  Located in the intertidal zone between the western limits of Lough Athola and Mannin Bay to the south. This rectangular fish trap (c. 7.5m E-W; c. 3m N-S) is defined by stone walls and it is visible on Google Earth aerial imagery taken on 25 February 2006 (accessed 7 December 2018). It was in use until relatively recently (information from Michael Gibbons, 15 November 2018). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 December 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Keerhaun North.

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

Name

Keerhaun North · An Caorán Thuaidh

Area

433,243 m² (43.32 ha, 107.06 acres)

Civil parish

Ballindoon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Errislannan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Errislannan electoral division: 234 people in 84 households; 83% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 51% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curhownagh, Derryeighter, Drimmeen, Drinagh, Kill

Placenames

Keerhaun North 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.