Mweeloon

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mweeloon, from 139 m² to 258,842 m² (25.88 ha, 63.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Mweeloon 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.

• 1 Jun 2021Conditional

  to construct a new single storey extension together with all ancillary site development works and services as well as retention of the existing septic tank. Gross floor space of proposed works: 91.8 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 205.1 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21967

• 18 Jan 2019Conditional

  to (1) retain and complete dwelling house (previously approved under planning reg. ref. no. 07/1957, 08/3239 and under extension of duration ref: 12/1192) and (2) permission to erect domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 49.5 sqm (Garage). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 272 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1961

• 7 Sept 2018Refused

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling house, the extension and resurfacing of the existing site access, the provision of a sewage treatment system and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the proposed development. Gross floor space of proposed works, 231 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181275

• 15 Mar 2018Conditional

  to erect dwelling house with attached domestic garage, waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 306.50 sqm. (house), 50 sqm. (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18314

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

• GA094-033 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In level grassland, overlooking Mweeloon Bay c. 150m to the W. Named ‘Toberbrenan’ in Gothic script on the 1838 and 1945 editions of the 6-inch OS maps. This natural spring well (diam. 1.7m) is enclosed by a low circular drystone limestone wall (H 0.5m) that may originally have been up to 2m wide. At SW a ledge protrudes from the well shaft. On inspection, the water was 0.4m deep and the well was overgrown with bushes. It was known locally that it had been used as a holy well. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 April 2023

• GA094-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the summit of a hillock in grassland. This well-preserved subcircular rath (58m E-W; 51m N-S) is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank and fosse are visible all round. The outer bank survives from N through E to W and is overlain by field walls from NE to E and from SW to W. A causewayed gap (Wth 5.8m) at S may mark the original entrance. Internal divisions, defined by grassed-over stony banks, are evident in the SW quadrant and E sector of the interior. (Holt 1912, 227; McCaffrey 1952, 120-21, no. 32; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 395) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

• GA094-035 Well
  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.

• GA094-036 Cairn - clearance cairn
  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 Mweeloon.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mweeloon · Maolún

Area

916,316 m² (91.63 ha, 226.43 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynacourty, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Ballynacourty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynacourty electoral division: 1,233 people in 428 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacloghy, Prospecthill

Placenames

Mweeloon 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.