Rayhill

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rayhill, from 3,370 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres) to 122,145 m² (12.21 ha, 30.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Rayhill 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.

• 6 Dec 2021Conditional

  for a new dwelling house, comprising of a mix of single storey and two storey elements, one garage, outbuildings/stables, site entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment and soakaways, hard and soft landscaping and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 222 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212295

• 13 Sept 2019Conditional

  for: (1) an extension of 162 sq.m to existing house, (2) renovation of existing house, (3) re-roofing of existing domestic sheds (4) new sewage treatment plant with polishing filter, (5) all associates site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 160 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 58 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191427

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 Rayhill.

Recorded monuments

• GA086-217 Enclosure
  Description

  On a hillock in level grassland; known locally as 'Cruchaun na Curra' or 'Hill of the Plain'. A circular enclosure (D 14m), in fair condition, defined by a bank from E through S to SW, and elsewhere by a scarp. From SW through W to NE, an external fosse is extant. A gap at NE may be original. A rectangular enclosure (E-W 3.5m, N-S 1.5m) defined by a grassed-over bank of stone lies within the interior. 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 Rayhill.

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 Rayhill, about 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rayhill · An Réchoill

Area

580,492 m² (58.05 ha, 143.44 acres)

Civil parish

Killallaghtan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Killallaghtan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

512 people lived in 178 households in the Killallaghtan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caltragh, Fahy, Hazelfort, Lavagh, Newcastle

Placenames

Rayhill 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.