Tonwee

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonwee, from 332 m² to 87,813 m² (8.78 ha, 21.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Tonwee 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.

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  for existing steel framed domestic storage sheds and all associated services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 73.95sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560609

• 24 May 2023Conditional

  for the conversion of attic to habitable space in existing bungalow

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360549

• 25 Jan 2023Conditional

  for a new single storey extension to the rear of existing house, relocation of vehicular entrance gate, new wastewater treatment system and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 25.00sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360042

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 Tonwee.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tonwee.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Tonwee, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_316 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Tonwee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Tonwee · An Tóin Bhuí

Area

269,804 m² (26.98 ha, 66.67 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmanagh, Derrylaura, Eighterard, Tonweeroe, Tullyvealnaslee, Tullyvrick

Placenames

Tonwee 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.