Sawnagh

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sawnagh, from 78 m² to 140,656 m² (14.07 ha, 34.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Sawnagh 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.

• 1 May 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system with percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted with the application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 173 sqm (H), 40 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2592

• 15 Feb 2024Refused

  for: (a) Construction of a new dwelling, (b) Construction of a domestic garage, (c) Wastewater Treatment System with percolation area, (d) New site entrance and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement is submitted with this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 173 sqm (Dwelling) & 40 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2451

• 18 Aug 2022Refused

  for the following development: (a) construction of a new dwelling (b) construction of a domestic garage (c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area (c) new site entrance and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and shall be submitted to the planning authority with this planning application. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 173sqm, Garage: 40sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22984

• 15 Jul 2021N/a

  for the following development ; (a) Construction of new dwelling (b) Construction of a domestic Garage (c) Wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) New site entrance and all associated site works at the above address.

  Outline permission · Galway County Council, 211285

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  for (a) alterations to house elevations and (b) a garden room/shed (previous Planning Ref. No. 05/3981 relates to this site). Gross floor space of work to be retained: (dwelling) - 7 sqm, (shed) - 35 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181475

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Barroughter Bog SAC 000231
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barroughter Bog 000231

Recorded monuments

• GA126-071 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular field (c. 48m NW-SE; c. 43m NE-SW) with an external line of bushes along each side of it. A NE-SE roadway ran roughly across the centre of the interior and the area to the SE of it was completely planted with bushes. On the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) the field wall is surrounded by a fosse or ditch (max. Wth c. 6m) and all the bushes have been cleared away. On inspection in February 1984 all that was visible on the ground was a low platform defined by a slight scarp that was barely identifiable around the N half of the monument. The N half of the interior was under tillage while the S half was under pasture. A lot of field boundaries in the area had been recently cleared. A local person regarded the monument as a ‘fort’ but had no recollection of what it looked like. Its outline is clearly visible on Google aerial photographs (Google 2018, last accessed 21 September 2018). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 21 September 2018

• GA126-072 Quarry
  Description

  In bogland. Marked as a quarry on the 1947-8 revision of the OS 6-inch map. On inspection in 1984 it proved to be disused and was indicated by a partially water-filled hollow. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 August 2014

• GA126-073 Burial
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sawnagh.

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 Sawnagh, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Sawnagh · Samhnacha

Area

1,489,711 m² (148.97 ha, 368.12 acres)

Civil parish

Lickmolassy, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Portumna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,504 people lived in 964 households in the Portumna electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyshrule, Claggernagh West, Cloonmoylan, Drimna East, Gorteenphadder, Killeen South, Pallas, Shanvally, Stonyisland

Placenames

Sawnagh 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.