Scrahallia

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scrahallia, from 69 m² to 503,876 m² (50.39 ha, 124.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Scrahallia 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 Nov 2023Conditional

  to erect a 21m high telecommunications monopole (including 3m high omni antenna with an overall height of 24m) together with antennas, dishes, and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed by security fencing and remove an existing 15m high monopole

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361320

• 17 Oct 2023Refused

  for construction of a new dwellinghouse with garage & wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361239

• 8 Apr 2022N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house with garage and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 149sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22480

• 4 Mar 2020Conditional

  for extension of existing single storey house, upwards and to the sides to create a two storey and single storey house. The proposal involves internal alterations and externally insulating the existing fabric, associated site services and landscaping works including replacement of metal shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 162.06 sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained: 101.43 sqm, Gross floor space of any demolition: 1.88 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20277

• 14 Nov 2019N/a

  of (1) existing dwelling house on revised site boundaries (2) removal of enurement clause (3) installation of velux windows to the front and rear elevation roof of the existing house (4) retention of domestic garage as well as all associated site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 181.84 sqm (House) + 35.98 sqm (Garage)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191774

• 12 Dec 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of retention of an existing telecommunications installation comprised of; a 15m support structure, antennas, dishes, associated equipment, cabinet and fencing used by the Emergency services (Garda, Fire Brigade and Ambulance). Planning permission is also sought for future additional telecommunications antennas, dishes and associated equipment cabinet

  Retention · Galway County Council, 181785

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: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

• GA051-013 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On SW slopes of Cashel Hill. The monument is well preserved, consisting of a gallery aligned E-W (L 3.1m, Wth 1.2m at the broader W end). A transverse slab, leaning heavily outwards, separates the main chamber and portico. The former (L 1.7m) is roofed by a single slab. Closely set outer walling tapers to a point c. 1.5m E of the gallery's backstone. Traces of a mound survive around the monument. (Cooney 1986) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Scrahallia · Sraith Sháile

Area

791,288 m² (79.13 ha, 195.53 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Moyrus, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moyrus electoral division: 334 people in 139 households; 82% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel, Cloonisle, Derrysillagh, Doonreaghan, Glencrees, Lettercaumus

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Scrahallia 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.