# Mountbernard, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymacward, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Mountbernard. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 441,694 m² (44.17 ha, 109.14 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,855 m² (1.89 ha, 4.66 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymacward, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballymacward.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Mounthazel, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 544 people lived in 194 households in the Mounthazel electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20555 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63358 - Centre: latitude 53.388009, longitude -8.533767 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountbernard, from 1,316 m² to 127,309 m² (12.73 ha, 31.46 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1995102: 127,309 m² (12.73 ha, 31.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995102.md - Parcel 1955971: 90,727 m² (9.07 ha, 22.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955971.md - Parcel 1995103: 52,984 m² (5.3 ha, 13.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995103.md - Parcel 1955968: 48,164 m² (4.82 ha, 11.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955968.md - Parcel 1955970: 31,023 m² (3.1 ha, 7.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955970.md - Parcel 1995105: 23,890 m² (2.39 ha, 5.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995105.md - Parcel 1995104: 18,855 m² (1.89 ha, 4.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995104.md - Parcel 1995106: 16,234 m² (1.62 ha, 4.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995106.md - Parcel 1955972: 13,465 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955972.md - Parcel 1995107: 11,563 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995107.md - Parcel 1995100: 3,873 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995100.md - Parcel 1995101: 3,410 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995101.md - Parcel 1955969: 1,316 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955969.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Mountbernard 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 18 May 2023, Galway County Council 23200: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for: a) change of house type to that granted under pl. ref 21/1404 & b) reduction in the site area from 4285sqm to 4000sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/23200/0 - 21 Feb 2023, Galway County Council 2357: Refused. Retention. of reconstruction and extension to existing building for habitable use to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 48.43 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2357/0 - 3 Aug 2021, Galway County Council 211404: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works 212 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/211404/0 - 11 Apr 2019, Galway County Council 19537: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage /fuel store with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter & all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 272.93 sqm (Dwelling House - 213.43 sqm, Garage - 59.50 sqm). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19537/0 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 Mountbernard. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA072-046: House - 18th/19th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA072-046----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. 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 Mountbernard. ## 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 Mountbernard, 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 low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountbernard. - 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/mountbernard.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/mountbernard.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/mountbernard.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mountbernard 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) - Ballygrany: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballygrany.md - Garrymore: https://everytownland.com/galway/garrymore-62131.md - Gortbrack: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortbrack.md - Hampstead: https://everytownland.com/galway/hampstead.md - Killooaun (Browne): https://everytownland.com/galway/killooaun-browne.md - Killooaun (Eyre): https://everytownland.com/galway/killooaun-eyre.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/mountbernard - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/mountbernard