# Monacow, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Coill Mhóna Cabha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 923,977 m² (92.4 ha, 228.32 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 32,650 m² (3.27 ha, 8.07 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tuam, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/tuam.md - Barony: Dunmore - Electoral division: Levally, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 437 people lived in 148 households in the Levally electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21885 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63310 - Centre: latitude 53.525925, longitude -8.771044 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monacow, from 389 m² to 255,750 m² (25.58 ha, 63.2 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2087741: 255,750 m² (25.58 ha, 63.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087741.md - Parcel 2039215: 131,107 m² (13.11 ha, 32.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039215.md - Parcel 2039216: 127,730 m² (12.77 ha, 31.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039216.md - Parcel 2087740: 122,260 m² (12.23 ha, 30.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087740.md - Parcel 2039218: 71,629 m² (7.16 ha, 17.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039218.md - Parcel 2087734: 67,580 m² (6.76 ha, 16.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087734.md - Parcel 2087742: 51,821 m² (5.18 ha, 12.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087742.md - Parcel 2039217: 38,887 m² (3.89 ha, 9.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039217.md - Parcel 2087739: 32,650 m² (3.27 ha, 8.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087739.md - Parcel 2087743: 10,157 m² (1.02 ha, 2.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087743.md - Parcel 2039212: 4,115 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039212.md - Parcel 2087735: 2,414 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087735.md - Parcel 2087736: 2,071 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087736.md - Parcel 2087738: 2,039 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087738.md - Parcel 2039213: 1,502 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039213.md - Parcel 2039214: 796 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2039214.md - Parcel 2087737: 389 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087737.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Monacow 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 Monacow in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Monacow. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA030-098: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-098----. On the summit of a rise in otherwise level marshy grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 41.5m, N-S 33m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. There is an entrance gap at SE and a probable souterrain (GA030-098001-) in the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA030-098001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-098001-. In N half of a ringfort (GA030-098----). It consists of two contiguous overgrown rectangular hollows (each L c. 9m, Wth 2.1m) averaging 0.5m in depth. The SE hollow follows a roughly E-W axis, while the NW hollow runs off on a NW-SE axis from its W end. Large amounts of limestone boulders were noted, possibly derived from collapsed side-walls. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monacow. ## 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 Monacow, 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monacow. - 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/monacow.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/monacow.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/monacow.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Monacow 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) - Cartronroe: https://everytownland.com/galway/cartronroe.md - Drumaskin: https://everytownland.com/galway/drumaskin.md - Hillswood East: https://everytownland.com/galway/hillswood-east.md - Hillswood West: https://everytownland.com/galway/hillswood-west.md - Polldorragha: https://everytownland.com/galway/polldorragha.md - Stripe: https://everytownland.com/galway/stripe-63950.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/monacow - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/monacow