Tonacurra
Townland in the civil parish of Killian, barony of Killian, Co. Galway; in Irish Tóin na Cora
- Area
- 134.7 ha
- 333 acres
- Land parcels
- 75
- registered freehold, median 13,003 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonacurra, from 144 m² to 99,369 m² (9.94 ha, 24.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 46 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 Tonacurra 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
6 Jul 2026Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and waste treatment system with all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26170
26 Sept 2024Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed work: 203.46 sqm (house) & 40.00 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461266
28 Oct 2021Conditional
for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling: 213.99 sqm, Garage: 40 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212018
14 Feb 2020Conditional
for change of use of existing slatted shed granted under Planning Ref: 06/5529 to agricultural storage shed for storage of organic compost and biosolids material during winter months, and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 451.20 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 20196
10 May 2018Conditional
to reconstruct and extend old dwelling house and reconstruct old shed to form part of the habitable house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 130.76 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18600
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tonacurra.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tonacurra.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tonacurra.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tonacurra.
- 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 Tonacurra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Tonacurra · Tóin na Cora
- Area
- 1,347,410 m² (134.74 ha, 332.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killian, and its townlands
- Barony
- Killian
- Electoral division
- Killian, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killian electoral division: 364 people in 141 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrownafreevy, Cloonavihony, Cloonnabricka, Eskermurry, Islands, Lahacrogher, Tirur
- Placenames
- Tonacurra 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.