Stonetown

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stonetown, from 15 m² to 75,224 m² (7.52 ha, 18.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Stonetown 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.

• 29 Aug 2023Conditional

  to upgrade the existing 220k overhead line between the existing Cashla 220kV Substation in the townland of Barrettspark, Co. Galway, & Tower 138 in the townland of Oughtagh, Co. Galway. The proposed development will consist of refurbishment works to the existing overhead Line (approximately 49 km long & comprising of 138no. steel angle masts). The refurbishment works to towers will consist of: installation of replacement parts on the towers including insulators, shield wire, vibration dampeners, arching horns & anti-climbing guards; associated site development works, including temporary work areas, foundation refurbishment /strengthening & recapping/clearing of shear blocks; clearance of shear block bases; & ancillary works; ancillary site preparation works, site clearance & levelling at the 6no. temporary construction compounds & associated temporary works to existing tracks & new temporary access routes to provide internal access routes to each tower with all associated works required to facilitate the development. No works will be undertaken to the overhead line (conductor). The proposed development will also consist of upgrades to the Cashla 220kV substation that will consist of: the decommissioning and removal of line bay equipment within the substation boundary; construction of a new adjacent offline like for like line bay & associated bay protection cabinets within the substation boundary; & new overhead lines connection between the end mast & the new line bay. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23355

• 19 Mar 2022Conditional

  Permission sought to retain conversion of attic to storage space along with associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260250

• 24 Jan 2022Conditional

  an amendment to the development permitted under pl. ref. no. 21-750 to include for the realignment of the permitted overhead line between pole numbers 11-MAP and 15-EP, along with the proposed relocation of the associated supporting wooden poles

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2251

• 6 May 2021Conditional

  for development consisting of a 20kV electrical grid connection from the consented Clooncon East Single Wind Turbine Development (Pl. Ref. No. 13/1139 & 19/147) to to the existing 20kV ESB overhead line network at the townland of Stonetown, Glenamaddy, Co. Galway. The grid connection is c. 1.5 km long and will consist of c. 1,050m of overhead line, supported by wooden poles, and c. 450m of underground cable. The planning application is accompanied by an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21750

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Stonetown.

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Stonetown · Baile na gCloch

Area

1,109,495 m² (110.95 ha, 274.16 acres)

Civil parish

Boyounagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Ballinastack, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinastack electoral division: 340 people in 129 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinapeaka, Bushtown, Clooncon East, Clooncon West, Stonepark, Swiftsacre

Placenames

Stonetown 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.