Ummeracly West

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ummeracly West, from 749 m² to 190,521 m² (19.05 ha, 47.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Ummeracly West 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.

• 7 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with calf creep area and ancillary concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works; 319sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201260

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA016-131 Earthwork
  Description

  In a level area of recently reclaimed pastureland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as an oval enclosure (c. 35m by c. 25m) with a small hollow at its SE end. What is visible is a subcircular grassy earthen platform (E-W 19.5m, N-S 16.5m) up to 2m in height. Slight traces of a bank are visible on the summit from E to ESE. The hollow shown on OS 6-inch map appears to have been a shallow quarry pit. 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

• GA016-132 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hummock in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 35.5m, N-S 35m) defined by a denuded bank from NNW to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field boundary overlies the monument from NNW to NNE and another cuts it at NE and SE. 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 Ummeracly West.

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 10 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 Ummeracly West.

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

Name

Ummeracly West · Iomaire Claí Thiar

Area

706,315 m² (70.63 ha, 174.53 acres)

Civil parish

Addergoole, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Kilbennan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilbennan electoral division: 349 people in 130 households; 93% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belmont, Kilgevrin, Liskeevy, Pollaturick, Ummeracly East

Placenames

Ummeracly West 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.