# Ungwee, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish Iong Gaoithe. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,627,959 m² (262.8 ha, 649.38 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,328 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballynakill-clifden-ra.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Ballynakill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18047 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 64183 - Centre: latitude 53.530626, longitude -9.97333 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ungwee, from 66 m² to 820,131 m² (82.01 ha, 202.66 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1967295: 820,131 m² (82.01 ha, 202.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967295.md - Parcel 1931475: 693,880 m² (69.39 ha, 171.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931475.md - Parcel 1967296: 282,224 m² (28.22 ha, 69.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967296.md - Parcel 1967303: 155,765 m² (15.58 ha, 38.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967303.md - Parcel 1931480: 105,295 m² (10.53 ha, 26.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931480.md - Parcel 1931478: 100,889 m² (10.09 ha, 24.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931478.md - Parcel 1931481: 78,902 m² (7.89 ha, 19.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931481.md - Parcel 1967306: 73,281 m² (7.33 ha, 18.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967306.md - Parcel 1931477: 47,375 m² (4.74 ha, 11.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931477.md - Parcel 1931487: 40,172 m² (4.02 ha, 9.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931487.md - Parcel 1931486: 33,572 m² (3.36 ha, 8.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931486.md - Parcel 1931488: 26,598 m² (2.66 ha, 6.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931488.md - Parcel 1967297: 25,255 m² (2.53 ha, 6.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967297.md - Parcel 1931474: 24,604 m² (2.46 ha, 6.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931474.md - Parcel 1967307: 20,256 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967307.md - Parcel 1931476: 18,786 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931476.md - Parcel 1967300: 15,512 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967300.md - Parcel 1931472: 13,406 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931472.md - Parcel 1967298: 7,475 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967298.md - Parcel 3799303: 5,832 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3799303.md - Parcel 1967305: 4,851 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967305.md - Parcel 1931483: 3,806 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931483.md - Parcel 2113192: 3,621 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2113192.md - Parcel 2042369: 3,366 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042369.md - Parcel 1931489: 3,131 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931489.md - Parcel 1931479: 2,932 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931479.md - Parcel 1967294: 2,704 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967294.md - Parcel 1967299: 2,495 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967299.md - Parcel 1967304: 2,379 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967304.md - Parcel 1931490: 2,125 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931490.md - Parcel 3282111: 2,077 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3282111.md - Parcel 1931491: 1,867 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931491.md - Parcel 1967302: 1,315 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967302.md - Parcel 4754571: 1,301 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4754571.md - Parcel 1931473: 1,280 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931473.md - Parcel 4754579: 1,090 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4754579.md - Parcel 1931485: 865 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931485.md - Parcel 1931482: 622 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931482.md - Parcel 4754573: 128 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4754573.md - Parcel 1967301: 107 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967301.md - Parcel 1931484: 92 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1931484.md - Parcel 4754575: 66 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4754575.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 4 Oct 2024, Galway County Council 24288: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. and the complete alterations to dwelling house and provide an upgraded proprietary effluent treatment unit for the dwelling house along with all associated services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/24288/0 - 27 Sept 2017, Galway County Council 171421: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171421/0 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 Ungwee. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA023-040: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA023-040----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA023-041----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Traheen Bridge, bridge, 1820–1860, Regional interest, registry number 30402317, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30402317. 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. ## 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 Ungwee, about 1 in 20 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 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 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/ungwee.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ungwee.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ungwee.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ungwee 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) - Attirowerty: https://everytownland.com/galway/attirowerty.md - Loughauna: https://everytownland.com/galway/loughauna.md - Moyard: https://everytownland.com/galway/moyard.md - Roscrea: https://everytownland.com/galway/roscrea.md - Rosleague: https://everytownland.com/galway/rosleague.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/ungwee - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ungwee