# Scrahallia, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moyrus, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish Sraith Sháile. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 791,288 m² (79.13 ha, 195.53 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,374 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Moyrus, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/moyrus.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Moyrus, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18299 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63785 - Centre: latitude 53.42515, longitude -9.820598 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scrahallia, from 69 m² to 503,876 m² (50.39 ha, 124.51 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1995578: 503,876 m² (50.39 ha, 124.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995578.md - Parcel 4781687: 18,333 m² (1.83 ha, 4.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4781687.md - Parcel 1955560: 17,103 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955560.md - Parcel 4908991: 16,452 m² (1.65 ha, 4.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4908991.md - Parcel 1995585: 15,750 m² (1.58 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995585.md - Parcel 1995582: 14,773 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995582.md - Parcel 1955559: 14,547 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955559.md - Parcel 5004689: 13,602 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5004689.md - Parcel 1955562: 12,429 m² (1.24 ha, 3.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955562.md - Parcel 1995588: 10,912 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995588.md - Parcel 1995575: 10,405 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995575.md - Parcel 1995584: 8,588 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995584.md - Parcel 4634195: 8,392 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4634195.md - Parcel 1955558: 8,109 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955558.md - Parcel 1955555: 7,611 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955555.md - Parcel 1995580: 6,236 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995580.md - Parcel 1995586: 5,117 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995586.md - Parcel 1995577: 4,776 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995577.md - Parcel 1995589: 3,973 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995589.md - Parcel 4897041: 3,231 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4897041.md - Parcel 1995590: 3,222 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995590.md - Parcel 1995581: 3,207 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995581.md - Parcel 1955556: 3,006 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955556.md - Parcel 1955561: 2,796 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955561.md - Parcel 1995583: 2,380 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995583.md - Parcel 1955554: 2,272 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955554.md - Parcel 4778701: 2,123 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4778701.md - Parcel 4897048: 2,019 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4897048.md - Parcel 1955553: 1,750 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955553.md - Parcel 3393364: 1,742 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3393364.md - Parcel 1955557: 1,650 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1955557.md - Parcel 1995576: 1,334 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995576.md - Parcel 4897032: 1,310 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4897032.md - Parcel 4897027: 827 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4897027.md - Parcel 1995587: 701 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995587.md - Parcel 4634184: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4634184.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 6 Nov 2023, Galway County Council 2361320: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2361320/0 - 17 Oct 2023, Galway County Council 2361239: Refused. Permission, 1 home. for construction of a new dwellinghouse with garage & wastewater treatment system. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2361239/0 - 8 Apr 2022, Galway County Council 22480: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling house with garage and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 149sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/22480/0 - 4 Mar 2020, Galway County Council 20277: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20277/0 - 14 Nov 2019, Galway County Council 191774: N/a. Retention, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191774/0 - 12 Dec 2018, Galway County Council 181785: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181785/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC, site code 002034, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002034 - Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA, site code 004159, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004159 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex, site code 002034 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA051-013: Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA051-013----. 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 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 Scrahallia. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, 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/scrahallia.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/scrahallia.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/scrahallia.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Scrahallia 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) - Cashel: https://everytownland.com/galway/cashel-61077.md - Cloonisle: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonisle.md - Derrysillagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/derrysillagh.md - Doonreaghan: https://everytownland.com/galway/doonreaghan.md - Glencrees: https://everytownland.com/galway/glencrees.md - Lettercaumus: https://everytownland.com/galway/lettercaumus.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/scrahallia - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/scrahallia