Tonroe
Townland in the civil parish of Ballynacourty, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Tóin Rua
- Area
- 254.3 ha
- 628 acres
- Land parcels
- 141
- registered freehold, median 4,715 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
141 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonroe, from 80 m² to 510,719 m² (51.07 ha, 126.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 64 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Jun 2025Conditional
to replace existing effluent treatment system with the new effluent treatment plant, tertiary treatment plant and polishing filter and retention of domestic shed. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 40.00 sqm(G)
Permission · Galway County Council, 2560702
15 Jun 2023Refused
for a dwellinghouse along with an on-site wastewater treatment system & all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23243
9 May 2023N/a
to install 2. No dormer roof windows to the Southwest & Southeast elevations of existing dwelling granted under Pl. Ref. No. 09/745 and Pl. Ref. No. 22/60637
Permission · Galway County Council, 2360473
10 Mar 2023N/a
to install 2. No. Dormer roof windows to the Southwest & Southeast elevations of existing dwelling, granted under Pl. Ref. No. 09/745 and Pl. Ref. No. 22/60637. Gross floor space of proposed works: 2.30 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360228
29 Jun 2022Conditional
for dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area on revised site boundaries. (Previous permission ref. 98/4638). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 119.50 sqm
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22823
29 Jun 2022Conditional
to erect dwelling house, waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 213.30 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22824
22 Jun 2022Conditional
for changes to the original development granted under Pl. Ref. No. 09/745 on the property as follows. 1. Retention for additional floor area of 14sqm to existing dwelling house (overall floor area = 223.70m²), 2. Retention of Garage Structure (Area 60.73m²), 3. Permission to complete the development including the installation of the proprietary effluent treatment system and all associated site services. 4. Permission to remove Condition No. 02 from Planning Permission 09/745 (Enurement Clause)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260637
18 May 2018Conditional
to construct a slatted shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 188 sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 18654
14 Sept 2017Conditional
of the dwelling and garage at the above address on an amended site. The application also includes permission to make the current septic tank obsolete and provide a Wastewater Treatment Plant to the front of the dwelling. Gross floor space of work to be retained House 133.00sqm and Garage 46.65sqm.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171370
14 Sept 2017N/a
of dwelling and shed on amended site boundaries.
Retention · Galway County Council, 171371
19 Jul 2017Conditional
for the construction of a new slatted shed with calf creep, cattle crush along with all associated Ancillary concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works 311.68sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 171068
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 Tonroe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tonroe.
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).
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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_679 (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
- Tonroe, Oranmore8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Tonroe · An Tóin Rua
- Area
- 2,543,147 m² (254.31 ha, 628.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynacourty, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Clarinbridge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clarinbridge electoral division: 4,143 people in 1,459 households; 78% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynamanagh East, Cloghalahard, Cregganna More, Gortard, Hillpark, Moneymore East, Moneymore West, Parkroe, Slieveaun
- 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.