Mace

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mace, from 54 m² to 97,310 m² (9.73 ha, 24.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Mace 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.

• 15 Feb 2022Conditional

  to construct a new vehicular site entrance and access road to service existing house as well as all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260110

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 Mace.

Architectural heritage

• Quay/wharf, 1840–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  L-plan quay, built c.1860, having addition to south-west built c.1900. Uncoursed rubble stone walls to original quay. Coursed snecked granite blockwork to later addition with granite and concrete coping. Tooled stone steps and galvanised steel ladders to quay wall (east). Cast-iron mooring bollards and cast-iron mooring posts to bank. Upper surface of uneven rubble work with grass. Short dry-stone causeway with stone and gravel surface gives access from road.

• Pier/jetty, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pier, built c.1880, having granite block walls, partly rebuilt in concrete, with concrete steps to north elevation. South elevation has shallow batter and is of rougher mortared stone construction. Mortared stone surface having drains with recent iron grill covers. Cast-iron mooring post and iron rings. Recent galvanised steel railings and ladder to south elevation. Conical rubble stone channel marker cairn adjacent to east end of pier.

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 Mace.

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

Name

Mace · An Más

Area

1,033,877 m² (103.39 ha, 255.48 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Knockboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Ard West, Dooyeher, Halfmace

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Mace 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.