# Munga, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballindoon, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish Na Monga. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,676,910 m² (367.69 ha, 908.58 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,336 m² (2.13 ha, 5.27 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballindoon, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballindoon.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Derrylea, the unit of the census - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18171 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63415 - Centre: latitude 53.467436, longitude -9.959811 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Munga, from 3,879 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres) to 3,097,704 m² (309.77 ha, 765.46 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2041422: 3,097,704 m² (309.77 ha, 765.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2041422.md - Parcel 2090105: 273,647 m² (27.36 ha, 67.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2090105.md - Parcel 2041316: 244,377 m² (24.44 ha, 60.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2041316.md - Parcel 2103226: 215,617 m² (21.56 ha, 53.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103226.md - Parcel 2041319: 33,698 m² (3.37 ha, 8.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2041319.md - Parcel 2041315: 8,973 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2041315.md - Parcel 2041317: 5,846 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2041317.md - Parcel 2041314: 5,245 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2041314.md - Parcel 2041318: 5,011 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2041318.md - Parcel 2090104: 3,879 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2090104.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Munga 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 12 Jan 2026, Galway County Council 2660019: Conditional. Permission. for the felling of 43 hectares of mature pine forest at Derrylea, Clifden, Co. Galway and restoration measures to raise the water table to re-establish the hydrological conditions for blanket bog vegetation to redevelop. The proposed restoration includes drain blocking using peat dams, stump grinding, stump flipping and surface smoothing techniques and provision of silt fencing and silt traps to minimise the mobilisation of sediment, and the creation of a new forest spur road, provision of temporary water course crossings and ancillary development. The application seeks a 10-year permission in order to allow for phased completion. The site lies adjacent to the Connemara bog Complex Special Area of Conservation and the application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660019/0 - 4 Nov 2025, Galway County Council 2561609: N/a. Permission. for the felling of 43 hectares of mature pine forest and restoration measures to raise the water table to re-establish the hydrological conditions for blanket bog vegetation to redevelop. The proposed restoration includes drain blocking using peat dams, stump grinding, stump flipping and surface smoothing techniques and provision of silt fencing and silt traps to minimise the mobilisation of sediment and creation of new forest spur road, provision of temporary water course crossings and ancillary development. The application seeks a 10 year permission to allow for phased completion. The site lies within the Connemara bog Complex Special Area of Conservation and the application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561609/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC, site code 002034, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002034 - Special Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA, site code 004181, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004181 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex, site code 002034 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA036-015: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA036-015----. In flat bogland. This almost circular enclosure (34m E-W; 32m N-S) is the most SW one of three similar enclosures (see also GA036-016---- and GA036-017----, c. 174m and c. 337m to NE respectively) running in a roughly NE-SW line to the SE of the embankment of the former Galway-Clifden railway line. All are constructed entirely of a low bank of the bog (max. H 0.4m; Wth 0.6m) on which they sit. The date and function of the enclosures are unknown. However, they appear to be late features and are marked only on the 1898 resurvey of the OS 6-inch map. They may be associated with Munga Lodge, now ruined, which lies c. 243m to the NNW. All three enclosures are clearly visible on current aerial imagery (OSi digitalglobe 2011-2013). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 April 2023 - GA036-016: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA036-016----. In flat bogland. This circular enclosure (diam. 32m) is the middle one of three similar enclosures (see also GA036-015---- c. 174m to the SW and GA036-017---- c. 130m to the NE) running in a roughly NE-SW line to the SE of the embankment of the former Galway-Clifden railway line. Like the others, it is constructed entirely of a low bank of the bog (max. H 0.4m; Wth 0.6m) on which it sits. The date and function of the enclosures are unknown. However, they appear to be late features and are marked only on the 1898 resurvey of the OS 6-inch map. They may be associated with Munga Lodge, now ruined, which lies c. 377m to the NW. All three enclosures are clearly visible on current aerial imagery (OSi digitalglobe 2011-2013). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 April 2023 - GA036-017: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA036-017----. In flat bogland. This circular enclosure (diam. c. 24m) is the middle one of three similar enclosures (see also GA036-015---- and GA036-017----c. 174m and c. 130m to the NE respectively) running in a roughly NE-SW line to the SE of the embankment of the former Galway-Clifden railway line. Like the others, it is constructed entirely of a low bank of the bog (max. H 0.4m; Wth 0.6m) on which it sits. The date and function of the enclosures are unknown. However, they appear to be late features and are marked only on the 1898 resurvey of the OS 6-inch map. They may be associated with Munga Lodge, now ruined, which lies c. 377m to the NW. All three enclosures are clearly visible on current aerial imagery (OSi digitalglobe 2011-2013). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 April 2023 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 Munga. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_29, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_29.zip (ZIP). - 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/munga.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/munga.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/munga.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Munga 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) - Ardagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardagh-60092.md - Derrycunlagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/derrycunlagh.md - Derrylea: https://everytownland.com/galway/derrylea.md - Emlaghmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/emlaghmore-61946.md - Gowlan West: https://everytownland.com/galway/gowlan-west.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/munga - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/munga