Slieveburke

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Slieveburke, from 5,659,241 m² (565.92 ha, 1,398.43 acres) to 5,659,241 m² (565.92 ha, 1,398.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Slieveburke 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Slieveburke in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Bog Complex SPA 004181
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

• GA036-018 Crannog
  Description

  At E end of Loch Beitheach Cháinín close to shore. A roughly circular island with a natural rock foundation (D c. 30m) upon which is a steep-sided, flat-topped peaty mound (D c. 14m; H 4m). Now very overgrown, but faint traces of a revetment to the mound suggest that it may be artificial. Possible quay at N. 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 Slieveburke.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Slieveburke.

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Slieveburke · Sliabh Búrca

Area

5,658,160 m² (565.82 ha, 1,398.16 acres)

Civil parish

Ballindoon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Derrylea, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Beaghcauneen, Boolagare, Derrigimlagh, Derrycunlagh, Emlaghmore, Tullaghlumman Beg, Tullaghlumman More

Placenames

Slieveburke 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.