# Rafwee, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killeany, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Ráth Bhoidhbh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,663,553 m² (166.36 ha, 411.07 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,480 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killeany, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killeany.md
- Barony: Clare
- Electoral division: Killeany, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21736
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63640
- Centre: latitude 53.448838, longitude -9.066272 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rafwee, from 115 m² to 282,461 m² (28.25 ha, 69.8 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1930490: 282,461 m² (28.25 ha, 69.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930490.md
- Parcel 1930513: 198,589 m² (19.86 ha, 49.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930513.md
- Parcel 5380274: 113,328 m² (11.33 ha, 28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5380274.md
- Parcel 1930512: 106,220 m² (10.62 ha, 26.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930512.md
- Parcel 1968241: 97,455 m² (9.75 ha, 24.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968241.md
- Parcel 1968246: 93,696 m² (9.37 ha, 23.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968246.md
- Parcel 1968245: 86,371 m² (8.64 ha, 21.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968245.md
- Parcel 1930511: 81,830 m² (8.18 ha, 20.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930511.md
- Parcel 1968248: 76,697 m² (7.67 ha, 18.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968248.md
- Parcel 1930510: 63,497 m² (6.35 ha, 15.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930510.md
- Parcel 1930491: 61,062 m² (6.11 ha, 15.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930491.md
- Parcel 1968235: 60,896 m² (6.09 ha, 15.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968235.md
- Parcel 1930514: 58,098 m² (5.81 ha, 14.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930514.md
- Parcel 1930495: 43,755 m² (4.38 ha, 10.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930495.md
- Parcel 1930497: 36,978 m² (3.7 ha, 9.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930497.md
- Parcel 1930496: 28,811 m² (2.88 ha, 7.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930496.md
- Parcel 1968238: 28,263 m² (2.83 ha, 6.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968238.md
- Parcel 1968239: 19,683 m² (1.97 ha, 4.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968239.md
- Parcel 1930500: 19,480 m² (1.95 ha, 4.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930500.md
- Parcel 1930501: 17,896 m² (1.79 ha, 4.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930501.md
- Parcel 1930499: 17,843 m² (1.78 ha, 4.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930499.md
- Parcel 1968249: 9,199 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968249.md
- Parcel 1930494: 8,099 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930494.md
- Parcel 1968247: 6,644 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968247.md
- Parcel 1968236: 6,167 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968236.md
- Parcel 1968231: 4,558 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968231.md
- Parcel 1930493: 4,022 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930493.md
- Parcel 1930509: 3,480 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930509.md
- Parcel 5620000: 2,598 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5620000.md
- Parcel 4720382: 2,343 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4720382.md
- Parcel 1930508: 2,271 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930508.md
- Parcel 1968244: 2,224 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968244.md
- Parcel 4904019: 2,212 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4904019.md
- Parcel 1968234: 2,112 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968234.md
- Parcel 4720370: 2,083 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4720370.md
- Parcel 1968232: 1,954 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968232.md
- Parcel 1930503: 1,945 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930503.md
- Parcel 1968243: 1,337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968243.md
- Parcel 1930504: 1,232 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930504.md
- Parcel 1968242: 1,226 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968242.md
- Parcel 2696805: 1,111 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2696805.md
- Parcel 6120175: 745 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6120175.md
- Parcel 1930506: 655 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930506.md
- Parcel 1930498: 625 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930498.md
- Parcel 1930489: 565 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930489.md
- Parcel 1930492: 564 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930492.md
- Parcel 4816690: 535 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4816690.md
- Parcel 1930507: 533 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930507.md
- Parcel 1930505: 403 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930505.md
- Parcel 1930502: 380 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930502.md
- Parcel 1968233: 362 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968233.md
- Parcel 1968237: 252 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968237.md
- Parcel 1930488: 227 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930488.md
- Parcel 1968240: 200 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968240.md
- Parcel 4460083: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4460083.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 28 Mar 2023, Galway County Council 2360297: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system & a garage/shed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360297/0
- 11 Feb 2022, Galway County Council 22174: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/22174/0
- 21 Mar 2019, Galway County Council 19400: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19400/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Turloughcor, site code 001788

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA056-128: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-128----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-129----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-129001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-130----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-131----. 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

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 Rafwee.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 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/rafwee.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/rafwee.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/rafwee.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rafwee 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)

- Caltragh: https://everytownland.com/galway/caltragh-60801.md
- Cloghanower: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloghanower.md
- Gortrory or Rogersfield: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortrory-or-rogersfield.md
- Keernaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/keernaun.md
- Liss: https://everytownland.com/galway/liss-63132.md
- Skeaghbeg: https://everytownland.com/galway/skeaghbeg.md
- Turloughcor: https://everytownland.com/galway/turloughcor.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.

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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.

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