Summerville

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Summerville, from 2,484 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 141,923 m² (14.19 ha, 35.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Summerville 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.

• 13 Apr 2023Conditional

  for the following: (A) Demolition of existing straw bed shed. (B) Modification to, and construction of an extension to, existing agricultural building to include cubicle housing and slatted slurry storage tank. (C) Construction of an agricultural building to include a milking parlour, dairy & ancillary rooms, drafting area with handling facilities, straw bed area, and unroofed livestock waiting yard with associated underground slatted storage tank. (D) Erection of a meal bin, external water storage tank and all associated site work

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360375

• 27 May 2022Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to existing dwelling house with associated modifications to existing dwelling house, replacing existing septic tank with new waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed extension: 116 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260555

• 26 May 2022N/a

  for construction of an extension to existing dwelling house with associated modifications to existing dwelling house, replacing existing septic tank with new waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed extension: 116 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260538

• 2 Dec 2021N/a

  to construct an extension to existing dwelling house with associated modifications to existing dwelling house, replacing existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 116 sqm (extension)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212270

• 20 Feb 2017Conditional

  to install two new windows, one located on each gable of the existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17206

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Summerville Lough 001319

Recorded monuments

• GA045-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives as the monument is now occupied by outhouses. Claffey (1983, 163) classified it as a 'ring-fort'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA045-048 Leacht cuimhne
  Description

  At a T-junction, near Summerville Lake. Claffey (1983, 163) refers to 'a beehive cairn' which was destroyed by quarrying in the 1940s. He described it as 'a mosscovered monument, about one metre high, with an inscription, unrecorded, on a flat stone on top.' According to OS Letters (O' Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 235), the inscription commemorated 'Loughlin Kelly' and his wife, and was dated 1646. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA045-049 Country house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Summerville.

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

Name

Summerville · Baile an tSamhraidh

Area

1,388,124 m² (138.81 ha, 343.01 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Cooloo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cooloo electoral division: 580 people in 201 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creggauns, Laughil, Mountsilk, Moylough, Moylough Beg, Templemoyle

Placenames

Summerville 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.