# Loughinch, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rahoon, barony of Galway, Co. Galway; in Irish Loch Inse. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 326,228 m² (32.62 ha, 80.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,742 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rahoon, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/rahoon.md - Barony: Galway - Electoral division: Barna, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,866 people lived in 1,287 households in the Barna electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% 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/18546 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63202 - Centre: latitude 53.271433, longitude -9.156634 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughinch, from 35 m² to 220,365 m² (22.04 ha, 54.45 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2089200: 220,365 m² (22.04 ha, 54.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089200.md - Parcel 2089207: 54,667 m² (5.47 ha, 13.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089207.md - Parcel 4909654: 6,554 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4909654.md - Parcel 2005692: 5,645 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2005692.md - Parcel 2040568: 5,043 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040568.md - Parcel 4631101: 4,161 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4631101.md - Parcel 2089206: 3,767 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089206.md - Parcel 5237037: 3,748 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5237037.md - Parcel 2089202: 3,135 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089202.md - Parcel 2040567: 3,113 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040567.md - Parcel 4794609: 3,110 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4794609.md - Parcel 2089204: 2,374 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089204.md - Parcel 2585940: 2,353 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2585940.md - Parcel 2040566: 2,324 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040566.md - Parcel 2089203: 2,169 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089203.md - Parcel 2089201: 2,121 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089201.md - Parcel 2089199: 2,087 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089199.md - Parcel 2040571: 2,005 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040571.md - Parcel 2089205: 1,845 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089205.md - Parcel 2040570: 1,238 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040570.md - Parcel 5994810: 1,095 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5994810.md - Parcel 2040569: 35 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040569.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Loughinch 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 15 May 2023, Galway County Council 2360511: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the development consisting of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360511/0 - 1 Jul 2022, Galway County Council 2260672: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for an agricultural entrance & all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260672/0 - 4 Feb 2022, Galway County Council 2260065: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, on site sewage treatment system, new site access and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed works 275.33 sqm (dwelling house) & 28sqm (garage).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260065/0 - 26 Mar 2021, Galway County Council 21468: N/a. Permission, 1 home. dwelling house, domestic garage, on site sewage treatment system, new site access and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed works dwelling 275.33 sqm , garage 28sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21468/0 - 26 Jul 2018, Galway County Council 181062: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a domestic wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181062/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Loughinch. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughinch. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughinch. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Loughinch, about 1 in 5 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_380, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_380.zip (ZIP). - 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/loughinch.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/loughinch.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/loughinch.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Loughinch 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) - Aille: https://everytownland.com/galway/aille-60050.md - Cloghscoltia: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloghscoltia.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/loughinch - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/loughinch