# Racoona, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Annaghdown, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Ráth Chuanna. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 477,010 m² (47.7 ha, 117.87 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,582 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Annaghdown, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/annaghdown.md - Barony: Clare - Electoral division: Liscananaun, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18753 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63635 - Centre: latitude 53.395386, longitude -8.917055 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Racoona, from 1,969 m² to 72,819 m² (7.28 ha, 17.99 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1984376: 72,819 m² (7.28 ha, 17.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1984376.md - Parcel 5894113: 2,624 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5894113.md - Parcel 5918933: 2,540 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5918933.md - Parcel 1966006: 1,969 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1966006.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 9 Sept 2021, Galway County Council 211643: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/211643/0 - 30 Sept 2019, Galway County Council 191511: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191511/0 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 Racoona. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA070-096: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA070-096----. 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 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 Racoona. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_617.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/racoona.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/racoona.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/racoona.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Racoona 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) - Carraghy: https://everytownland.com/galway/carraghy.md - Carrownrooaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrownrooaun.md - Corbally: https://everytownland.com/galway/corbally-61459.md - Kilgill: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilgill.md - Monroe: https://everytownland.com/galway/monroe.md - Slievefin: https://everytownland.com/galway/slievefin.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/racoona - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/racoona