# Sonvolaun, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilmovee, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish Sanúlán.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,744,514 m² (274.45 ha, 678.18 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,184 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilmovee, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilmovee.md
- Barony: Costello
- Electoral division: Urlaur, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 513 people lived in 224 households in the Urlaur electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/36847
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152933
- Centre: latitude 53.89001, longitude -8.757872 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sonvolaun, from 50 m² to 126,640 m² (12.66 ha, 31.29 acres); 32 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 930102: 126,640 m² (12.66 ha, 31.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/930102.md
- Parcel 1008695: 114,164 m² (11.42 ha, 28.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1008695.md
- Parcel 995238: 113,577 m² (11.36 ha, 28.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/995238.md
- Parcel 995986: 108,017 m² (10.8 ha, 26.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/995986.md
- Parcel 1010250: 99,229 m² (9.92 ha, 24.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1010250.md
- Parcel 965609: 96,561 m² (9.66 ha, 23.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/965609.md
- Parcel 1009422: 88,857 m² (8.89 ha, 21.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1009422.md
- Parcel 880133: 82,266 m² (8.23 ha, 20.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/880133.md
- Parcel 910661: 74,748 m² (7.47 ha, 18.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910661.md
- Parcel 990913: 74,576 m² (7.46 ha, 18.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/990913.md
- Parcel 985214: 73,525 m² (7.35 ha, 18.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985214.md
- Parcel 962351: 73,459 m² (7.35 ha, 18.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962351.md
- Parcel 871234: 70,260 m² (7.03 ha, 17.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/871234.md
- Parcel 994128: 65,537 m² (6.55 ha, 16.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/994128.md
- Parcel 1006547: 58,879 m² (5.89 ha, 14.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1006547.md
- Parcel 993568: 58,083 m² (5.81 ha, 14.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/993568.md
- Parcel 871701: 57,559 m² (5.76 ha, 14.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/871701.md
- Parcel 908005: 57,338 m² (5.73 ha, 14.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/908005.md
- Parcel 967537: 55,866 m² (5.59 ha, 13.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/967537.md
- Parcel 990288: 55,113 m² (5.51 ha, 13.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/990288.md
- Parcel 4651182: 54,373 m² (5.44 ha, 13.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4651182.md
- Parcel 998741: 53,107 m² (5.31 ha, 13.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/998741.md
- Parcel 943887: 52,415 m² (5.24 ha, 12.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943887.md
- Parcel 5424824: 50,386 m² (5.04 ha, 12.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5424824.md
- Parcel 1001429: 50,048 m² (5 ha, 12.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1001429.md
- Parcel 888980: 49,506 m² (4.95 ha, 12.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/888980.md
- Parcel 988927: 43,160 m² (4.32 ha, 10.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/988927.md
- Parcel 900144: 41,373 m² (4.14 ha, 10.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900144.md
- Parcel 5382040: 40,417 m² (4.04 ha, 9.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5382040.md
- Parcel 898144: 40,288 m² (4.03 ha, 9.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/898144.md
- Parcel 1000115: 39,592 m² (3.96 ha, 9.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1000115.md
- Parcel 4833301: 36,878 m² (3.69 ha, 9.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4833301.md
- Parcel 989403: 35,850 m² (3.58 ha, 8.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/989403.md
- Parcel 876465: 35,783 m² (3.58 ha, 8.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/876465.md
- Parcel 902151: 34,423 m² (3.44 ha, 8.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/902151.md
- Parcel 1003386: 33,943 m² (3.39 ha, 8.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003386.md
- Parcel 921952: 28,019 m² (2.8 ha, 6.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/921952.md
- Parcel 1012290: 27,295 m² (2.73 ha, 6.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012290.md
- Parcel 878662: 25,845 m² (2.58 ha, 6.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/878662.md
- Parcel 932807: 24,688 m² (2.47 ha, 6.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/932807.md
- Parcel 987070: 24,155 m² (2.42 ha, 5.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/987070.md
- Parcel 904356: 21,725 m² (2.17 ha, 5.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904356.md
- Parcel 987686: 20,048 m² (2 ha, 4.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/987686.md
- Parcel 4833300: 15,951 m² (1.6 ha, 3.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4833300.md
- Parcel 963439: 15,481 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/963439.md
- Parcel 971739: 14,316 m² (1.43 ha, 3.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/971739.md
- Parcel 979564: 14,184 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/979564.md
- Parcel 988052: 13,178 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/988052.md
- Parcel 981682: 12,946 m² (1.29 ha, 3.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/981682.md
- Parcel 977624: 12,057 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977624.md
- Parcel 949720: 11,591 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/949720.md
- Parcel 884173: 11,421 m² (1.14 ha, 2.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/884173.md
- Parcel 978731: 11,197 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/978731.md
- Parcel 955140: 11,120 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955140.md
- Parcel 5744739: 10,965 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5744739.md
- Parcel 955747: 10,695 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955747.md
- Parcel 921943: 10,028 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/921943.md
- Parcel 953728: 9,701 m² (0.97 ha, 2.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953728.md
- Parcel 917529: 8,292 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917529.md
- Parcel 5744754: 7,423 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5744754.md
- Parcel 924754: 6,453 m² (0.65 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/924754.md
- Parcel 3554074: 5,800 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3554074.md
- Parcel 897617: 5,215 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/897617.md
- Parcel 905957: 4,827 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/905957.md
- Parcel 998490: 4,670 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/998490.md
- Parcel 954721: 4,154 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/954721.md
- Parcel 984118: 3,832 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/984118.md
- Parcel 5744737: 3,739 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5744737.md
- Parcel 998460: 3,486 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/998460.md
- Parcel 958312: 3,323 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/958312.md
- Parcel 913003: 3,180 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/913003.md
- Parcel 978938: 3,151 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/978938.md
- Parcel 3758561: 3,132 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3758561.md
- Parcel 935908: 2,642 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/935908.md
- Parcel 979754: 2,352 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/979754.md
- Parcel 992689: 2,013 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/992689.md
- Parcel 902152: 1,856 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/902152.md
- Parcel 902465: 1,827 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/902465.md
- Parcel 954338: 1,709 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/954338.md
- Parcel 990568: 1,668 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/990568.md
- Parcel 955346: 1,580 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/955346.md
- Parcel 921305: 1,492 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/921305.md
- Parcel 931080: 1,054 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/931080.md
- Parcel 914628: 808 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/914628.md
- Parcel 5489844: 647 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5489844.md
- Parcel 979191: 566 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/979191.md
- Parcel 986904: 555 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/986904.md
- Parcel 4123445: 515 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4123445.md
- Parcel 1011472: 368 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1011472.md
- Parcel 935641: 357 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/935641.md
- Parcel 5744759: 309 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5744759.md
- Parcel 5533246: 244 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5533246.md
- Parcel 5533218: 50 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5533218.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Sonvolaun 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)

1 application, newest first.

- 15 Mar 2017, Mayo County Council 17185: Conditional. Permission. 1 NO. FOREST ROAD ACCESS ONTO THE R325, WITH ASSOCIATED TURNING HEAD AND SECURITY GATE, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/17185/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gower, site code 000523

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sonvolaun.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Sonvolaun, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sonvolaun.
- 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/mayo/sonvolaun.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/sonvolaun.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/sonvolaun.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Sonvolaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Cloonfaulus: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonfaulus.md
- Cloonnamna: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonnamna.md
- Corgarriff: https://everytownland.com/mayo/corgarriff.md
- Glentavraun: https://everytownland.com/mayo/glentavraun.md
- Tavraun: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tavraun.md
- Tawnyinah Upper: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tawnyinah-upper.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.

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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.

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