Tirneevin
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacduagh, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway; in Irish Tír Nimhin
- Area
- 41.3 ha
- 102 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 6,723 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tirneevin, from 2,130 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 147,340 m² (14.73 ha, 36.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tirneevin 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Dec 2025Conditional
to build a new extension to the front of the existing school consisting of two no. SET classrooms with all necessary ancillary services
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561837
25 Jan 2024Conditional
of an existing childcare facility. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 38.50 sqm
Retention · Galway County Council, 2460078
30 Oct 2018Unconditional
for a new temporary preschool facility, connection to existing services and all associated site works (Gross floor space 409sqm existing; 43sqm proposed works). Previous Planning Ref. No. 13/721
Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 181535
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tirneevin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tirneevin.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_689 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tirneevin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Tirneevin · Tír Nimhin
- Area
- 412,801 m² (41.28 ha, 102.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacduagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kiltartan
- Electoral division
- Killinny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killinny electoral division: 492 people in 169 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymulfaig, Cloonteen, Gortnasteal, Kilmacduagh, Poulataggle (Co. Clare), Tawnagh West
- Placenames
- Tirneevin 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.