Ungwee

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ungwee, from 66 m² to 820,131 m² (82.01 ha, 202.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ungwee 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.

• 4 Oct 2024Conditional

  and the complete alterations to dwelling house and provide an upgraded proprietary effluent treatment unit for the dwelling house along with all associated services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24288

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 297.00sqm, Garage 44.80sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171421

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 Ungwee.

Recorded monuments

• GA023-040 Field system
  Description

  Located in cutaway bog on a gentle ENE-facing slope overlooking the Abhainn an tSraithín. Fragmentary sections of pre-bog walls extend over an area c. 400m by 100m. The longest stretch is c. 30m and at least one cross-wall is visible. Built of rough boulders but obviously robbed to build adjoining field walls to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA023-041 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  On a low hillock surrounded by extensive blanket bog. A subcircular hut (E-W 4.4m, N-S 3.6m) defined by a grassed-over stone wall. Traces of internal division are visible at S; there is an entrance at E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Traheen Bridge, bridge, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1840, with segmental arches having rusticated voussoirs, gunnelled soffits, snecked stone walling and piers having tooled imposts and flanked to landward ends by rusticated dressed buttresses. Dressed stone central pier has V-cutwaters. Rubble parapets with mortared on-end slate coping stones.

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 Ungwee, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ungwee.

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

Name

Ungwee · Iong Gaoithe

Area

2,627,959 m² (262.8 ha, 649.38 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

516 people lived in 204 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attirowerty, Loughauna, Moyard, Roscrea, Rosleague

Placenames

Ungwee 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.