Tonroe

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonroe, from 54 m² to 140,476 m² (14.05 ha, 34.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Tonroe 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.

• 31 Oct 2023Conditional

  for: (1) the construction of a new septic tank effluent treatment system & percolation area, (2) retention of existing front porch extension to the front elevation of the dwellinghouse

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361297

• 3 Dec 2021Conditional

  for development at the existing ESB Headford 38kV station. The development will comprise works on an overall 0.26 hectare site consisting of: a) site clearance works including removal of the existing fencing, gates, control room, and electrical plant and equipment; b) provision of new electrical plant and equipment including 5 no. permanent transformers (2 no. single transformers, a booster transformer, an interface transformer, and a house transformer) and a temporary transformer to be in place for the period of construction; c) provision of 3 no. modular structures (a GIS Module (29sqm); a control room module (31 sqm); and a MV Module (22sqm); and d) site development works including - internal access roads; amended access arrangements including relocation of boundary wall; installation of new boundary and internal fencing and gates including palisade and post and rail fencing and gates; and provision of site services including lighting, telecommunications-including an 18m high Scada pole, drainage; landscaping; and all other associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 82 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 9.6 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 212289

• 23 Oct 2020Conditional

  of existing conservatory and porch to dwelling house. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 18.5 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201576

• 25 Sept 2017Conditional

  of existing garage building which was previously partially used as an apartment and partially as a domestic store and to convert this in its entirety for use as a granny flat. Permission is also sought to retain elevation alterations to the dwelling house. Gross floor space of work to be retained 68.53sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171413

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tonroe.

Recorded monuments

• GA042-220 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. Subcircular ringfort (NW-SE 45.8m, NE-SW 43.5m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone and external fosse. No visible surface trace survives from E through S to SW. Within the interior are a CBG (GA042-220002-) and a probable souterrain (GA042-022001-). 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

• GA042-220001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA042-220----). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1920) as a small dot in NE part of the interior. In the course of levelling S sector of the rath, c. five years ago, the owner discovered a stone-built 'cave' running N towards the centre from just inside the enclosing bank. Subsequently sealed and no visible trace survives. 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

• GA042-220002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA042-220----). According to local tradition, there was a CBG here but no visible surface trace survives. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Tonroe.

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

Name

Tonroe · An Tóin Rua

Area

791,067 m² (79.11 ha, 195.48 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkilvery, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Headford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Headford electoral division: 1,864 people in 695 households; 75% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfruit, Barnaboy, Cloonnavarnoge, Glennagarraun, Kinlough (Co. Mayo), Largan, Pollacullaire

Placenames

Tonroe 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.