# Rayhill, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killallaghtan, barony of Kilconnell, Co. Galway; in Irish An Réchoill. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 580,492 m² (58.05 ha, 143.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 39,254 m² (3.93 ha, 9.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killallaghtan, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killallaghtan.md - Barony: Kilconnell - Electoral division: Killallaghtan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17877 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63679 - Centre: latitude 53.304737, longitude -8.381948 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1959671: 122,145 m² (12.21 ha, 30.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959671.md - Parcel 1991172: 94,952 m² (9.5 ha, 23.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991172.md - Parcel 1991174: 89,149 m² (8.91 ha, 22.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991174.md - Parcel 1991173: 66,111 m² (6.61 ha, 16.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991173.md - Parcel 1959672: 63,088 m² (6.31 ha, 15.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959672.md - Parcel 1959674: 48,628 m² (4.86 ha, 12.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959674.md - Parcel 1991177: 39,254 m² (3.93 ha, 9.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991177.md - Parcel 1991175: 13,068 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991175.md - Parcel 1991176: 12,698 m² (1.27 ha, 3.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991176.md - Parcel 5891399: 12,611 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5891399.md - Parcel 4458746: 5,717 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4458746.md - Parcel 1959673: 4,232 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959673.md - Parcel 1959675: 3,370 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959675.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 6 Dec 2021, Galway County Council 212295: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/212295/0 - 13 Sept 2019, Galway County Council 191427: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191427/0 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 Rayhill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA086-217: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA086-217----. 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 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 Rayhill. ## 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 Rayhill, about 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rayhill. - 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/rayhill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/rayhill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/rayhill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rayhill 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-60803.md - Fahy: https://everytownland.com/galway/fahy-61971.md - Hazelfort: https://everytownland.com/galway/hazelfort.md - Lavagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/lavagh.md - Newcastle: https://everytownland.com/galway/newcastle-63431.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/rayhill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/rayhill