Racoona

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Racoona, from 1,969 m² to 72,819 m² (7.28 ha, 17.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Racoona 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.

• 9 Sept 2021Refused

  for the construction of new dwelling along with garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 294 sqm 9house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211643

• 30 Sept 2019Refused

  for the construction of new dwelling along with domestic garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 197 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191511

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 Racoona.

Recorded monuments

• GA070-096 Enclosure
  Description

  In level grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1934) as a square enclosure (N-S c. 40m, E-W c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_617 (ZIP).

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

Name

Racoona · Ráth Chuanna

Area

477,010 m² (47.7 ha, 117.87 acres)

Civil parish

Annaghdown, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Liscananaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Liscananaun electoral division: 1,601 people in 521 households; 83% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carraghy, Carrownrooaun, Corbally, Kilgill, Monroe, Slievefin

Placenames

Racoona 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.