Mounthazel

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mounthazel, from 2,102 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 178,644 m² (17.86 ha, 44.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Mounthazel 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.

• 25 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter and all associated site works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 265.42 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17574

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mounthazel.

Recorded monuments

• GA059-057 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved almost circular rath (D 39m) defined by a low scarp and shallow external fosse. From NW to N, slight traces of a possible outer bank are evident. 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

• GA059-058 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  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.

• GA073-089 Enclosure
  Description

  In scrubland, on NW boundary of the former demesne of Hampstead House. A poorly preserved and partially overgrown circular enclosure (D 28m) cut by a field wall at NE and SW. To NW of the wall, it is defined a bank and fosse curving from SW through N to NE; no visible surface trace survives to SE. Numerous breaches in the bank appear modern, and there is a hollow in W half of 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

• GA073-089001 Souterrain
  Description

  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.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mounthazel.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mounthazel.

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

Name

Mounthazel · Mounthazel

Area

1,710,538 m² (171.05 ha, 422.68 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacward, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Mounthazel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mounthazel electoral division: 544 people in 194 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyara, Caltraghcreen, Hampstead, Killamude East, Killamude West, Killooaun, Killooaun (Browne), Moneen

Placenames

Mounthazel 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.