# Mace, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moyrus, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish An Más. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,033,877 m² (103.39 ha, 255.48 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,543 m² (1.65 ha, 4.09 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Moyrus, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/moyrus.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Knockboy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18274 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63233 - Centre: latitude 53.323982, longitude -9.888766 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mace, from 54 m² to 97,310 m² (9.73 ha, 24.05 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1989762: 97,310 m² (9.73 ha, 24.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989762.md - Parcel 1961017: 95,872 m² (9.59 ha, 23.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961017.md - Parcel 1955324: 78,935 m² (7.89 ha, 19.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955324.md - Parcel 1961015: 70,489 m² (7.05 ha, 17.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961015.md - Parcel 1989763: 68,707 m² (6.87 ha, 16.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989763.md - Parcel 1989759: 63,354 m² (6.34 ha, 15.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989759.md - Parcel 1989765: 48,831 m² (4.88 ha, 12.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989765.md - Parcel 1961022: 48,205 m² (4.82 ha, 11.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961022.md - Parcel 1989761: 42,345 m² (4.23 ha, 10.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989761.md - Parcel 1955326: 41,651 m² (4.17 ha, 10.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955326.md - Parcel 1989766: 39,720 m² (3.97 ha, 9.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989766.md - Parcel 1961018: 37,947 m² (3.79 ha, 9.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961018.md - Parcel 1989764: 35,936 m² (3.59 ha, 8.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989764.md - Parcel 1961016: 35,522 m² (3.55 ha, 8.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961016.md - Parcel 1989758: 29,726 m² (2.97 ha, 7.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989758.md - Parcel 1961019: 27,270 m² (2.73 ha, 6.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961019.md - Parcel 1989769: 26,804 m² (2.68 ha, 6.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989769.md - Parcel 1989770: 22,778 m² (2.28 ha, 5.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989770.md - Parcel 1955325: 17,322 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955325.md - Parcel 1989768: 15,763 m² (1.58 ha, 3.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989768.md - Parcel 1989760: 7,968 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989760.md - Parcel 5932823: 4,983 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5932823.md - Parcel 1961014: 4,773 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961014.md - Parcel 1955323: 4,155 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955323.md - Parcel 3496753: 2,754 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3496753.md - Parcel 3496652: 2,345 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3496652.md - Parcel 3496751: 2,020 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3496751.md - Parcel 1961020: 1,925 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961020.md - Parcel 1961021: 1,829 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961021.md - Parcel 1961013: 1,664 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1961013.md - Parcel 4652253: 1,457 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4652253.md - Parcel 4652320: 1,311 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4652320.md - Parcel 2373949: 1,241 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373949.md - Parcel 5359513: 967 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5359513.md - Parcel 4652349: 894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4652349.md - Parcel 5932818: 526 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5932818.md - Parcel 3496756: 146 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3496756.md - Parcel 1989767: 54 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1989767.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 15 Feb 2022, Galway County Council 2260110: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new vehicular site entrance and access road to service existing house as well as all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260110/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Kilkieran Bay and Islands SAC, site code 002111, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002111 - Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA, site code 004159, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004159 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mace. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Quay/wharf, 1840–1920, Regional interest, registry number 30407601, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30407601. 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, registry number 30407602, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30407602. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, 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/mace-63233.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/mace-63233.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/mace-63233.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mace 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) - Ard West: https://everytownland.com/galway/ard-west.md - Dooyeher: https://everytownland.com/galway/dooyeher.md - Halfmace: https://everytownland.com/galway/halfmace.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/mace-63233 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/mace-63233