Rafwee

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rafwee, from 115 m² to 282,461 m² (28.25 ha, 69.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rafwee 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.

• 28 Mar 2023Conditional

  for construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system & a garage/shed

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360297

• 11 Feb 2022Refused

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling: 282 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22174

• 21 Mar 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a garage/shed with associated services and permission to retain a new front door unit to existing dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19400

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Turloughcor 001788

Recorded monuments

• GA056-128 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 60m by c. 50m). Apart from a slight curve in a field wall, 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

• GA056-129 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (NNW-SSE 38m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the outer bank survives at ESE or SW. Gap at E could be original. A field wall abuts the monument at W. A CBG (GA056-129001-) is associated. 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

• GA056-129001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Associated with a ringfort (GA056-129----). On OS 6-inch maps, the ringfort is named 'Lisheen' which suggests the former presence of a CBG. However, 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

• GA056-130 Enclosure
  Description

  On a ridge in grassland. Oval enclosure (NNE-SSW c. 27m) defined by a stone wall from ENE to ESE, and elsewhere by a degraded scarp. 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

• GA056-131 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On W-facing slope of a hill. Poorly preserved almost circular cashel (D c. 20.8m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. At N, the wall curves inwards for 6m where there is an entrance gap (Wth 1.7m). Within NW sector of interior, and abutting the enclosing element, are the foundations of a rectangular grassed-over house (WNW-ESE; L 5.8m, Wth 2.5m). Outside the monument at N are the remains of a two-roomed rectangular house. 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 Rafwee.

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

At the centre of the townland of Rafwee, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Rafwee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rafwee · Ráth Bhoidhbh

Area

1,663,553 m² (166.36 ha, 411.07 acres)

Civil parish

Killeany, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killeany, the unit of the census

Census 2022

617 people lived in 218 households in the Killeany electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caltragh, Cloghanower, Gortrory or Rogersfield, Keernaun, Liss, Skeaghbeg, Turloughcor

Placenames

Rafwee 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.