Sonnagh West

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sonnagh West, from 8,025 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres) to 247,768 m² (24.78 ha, 61.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Sonnagh West 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 Sonnagh West 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: Lisnageeragh Bog and Ballinastack Turlough SAC 000296
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lisnageeragh Bog And Ballinastack Turlough 000296

Recorded monuments

• GA019-079 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland. A hachured area marked on the 1931 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 July 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Sonnagh West.

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

Name

Sonnagh West · Sonnach Thiar

Area

562,420 m² (56.24 ha, 138.98 acres)

Civil parish

Boyounagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Glennamaddy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glennamaddy electoral division: 925 people in 362 households; 71% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhard, Frass, Lisnageeragh, Sonnagh East

Placenames

Sonnagh West 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.