# Silverhill, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballindoon, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish Cnocán an Airgid. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 642,390 m² (64.24 ha, 158.74 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,810 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballindoon, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballindoon.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Doonloughan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 97 people lived in 39 households in the Doonloughan electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 56% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18207 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63865 - Centre: latitude 53.425178, longitude -10.150429 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Silverhill, from 88 m² to 145,865 m² (14.59 ha, 36.04 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1965553: 145,865 m² (14.59 ha, 36.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965553.md - Parcel 1965551: 77,668 m² (7.77 ha, 19.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965551.md - Parcel 1965555: 73,097 m² (7.31 ha, 18.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965555.md - Parcel 1965556: 72,567 m² (7.26 ha, 17.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965556.md - Parcel 1965554: 64,235 m² (6.42 ha, 15.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965554.md - Parcel 1965552: 50,911 m² (5.09 ha, 12.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965552.md - Parcel 1965550: 49,871 m² (4.99 ha, 12.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965550.md - Parcel 1984817: 23,957 m² (2.4 ha, 5.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1984817.md - Parcel 1965549: 23,810 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965549.md - Parcel 1965557: 8,745 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965557.md - Parcel 1965543: 2,176 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965543.md - Parcel 1965548: 798 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965548.md - Parcel 1965545: 612 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965545.md - Parcel 1965547: 186 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965547.md - Parcel 1965546: 156 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965546.md - Parcel 1965544: 117 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965544.md - Parcel 6003518: 88 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6003518.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Silverhill 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) 1 application, newest first. - 15 May 2023, Galway County Council 2360507: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360507/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slyne Head Peninsula SAC, site code 002074, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002074 - Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA, site code 004159, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004159 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slyne Head Peninsula, site code 002074 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA048-018: Midden, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA048-018----. In an area of sand-dunes close to the sea at S limits of a golf course. A band of midden material exposed in a scarp face (L 32m, T 0.25-0.35m), and up to 1m below present ground surface. Composed mainly of shells, including whelk, periwinkle and oyster, with quantities of burnt stone and animal bone also in evidence. A fragment of a hone has been recovered. Human remains were reportedly discovered in this area in 1989. This may be a continuation of a similar midden c. 175m to SE (GA048-004----). 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 Silverhill. ## 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 Silverhill, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Silverhill. - 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/silverhill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/silverhill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/silverhill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Silverhill 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) - Creggoduff: https://everytownland.com/galway/creggoduff.md - Doonloughan: https://everytownland.com/galway/doonloughan.md - Keerhaunmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/keerhaunmore.md - Leaghcarrick: https://everytownland.com/galway/leaghcarrick.md - Lehid: https://everytownland.com/galway/lehid-62983.md - Pollrevagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollrevagh.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/silverhill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/silverhill