# Tonwee, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish An Tóin Bhuí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 269,804 m² (26.98 ha, 66.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,354 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcummin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilcummin.md - Barony: Moycullen - Electoral division: Oughterard, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20896 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 64063 - Centre: latitude 53.436053, longitude -9.332973 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonwee, from 332 m² to 87,813 m² (8.78 ha, 21.7 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1986507: 87,813 m² (8.78 ha, 21.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1986507.md - Parcel 1986504: 44,880 m² (4.49 ha, 11.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1986504.md - Parcel 1963991: 39,922 m² (3.99 ha, 9.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1963991.md - Parcel 1986503: 33,989 m² (3.4 ha, 8.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1986503.md - Parcel 1963992: 27,360 m² (2.74 ha, 6.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1963992.md - Parcel 1963995: 18,482 m² (1.85 ha, 4.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1963995.md - Parcel 1986500: 5,626 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1986500.md - Parcel 1963994: 2,392 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1963994.md - Parcel 1986506: 2,354 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1986506.md - Parcel 1986501: 1,776 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1986501.md - Parcel 3425591: 1,426 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3425591.md - Parcel 1986505: 999 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1986505.md - Parcel 1963993: 849 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1963993.md - Parcel 4757668: 786 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4757668.md - Parcel 5230674: 411 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5230674.md - Parcel 1986502: 407 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1986502.md - Parcel 4680085: 332 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4680085.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 16 May 2025, Galway County Council 2560609: Conditional. Retention. for existing steel framed domestic storage sheds and all associated services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 73.95sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560609/0 - 24 May 2023, Galway County Council 2360549: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for the conversion of attic to habitable space in existing bungalow. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360549/0 - 25 Jan 2023, Galway County Council 2360042: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360042/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tonwee. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tonwee. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tonwee. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_316.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/tonwee.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/tonwee.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/tonwee.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Tonwee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrowmanagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowmanagh-60953.md - Derrylaura: https://everytownland.com/galway/derrylaura.md - Eighterard: https://everytownland.com/galway/eighterard.md - Tonweeroe: https://everytownland.com/galway/tonweeroe.md - Tullyvealnaslee: https://everytownland.com/galway/tullyvealnaslee.md - Tullyvrick: https://everytownland.com/galway/tullyvrick.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/tonwee - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/tonwee