Tawin East
Tawin East is a townland in Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Tamhain Thoir.
Parcel 1930754
- Area
- 65,217 m² (6.52 ha, 16.12 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Tawin East
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
- Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map does not classify this parcel.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 77.1 ha
- 191 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 6,273 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawin East, from 114 m² to 65,217 m² (6.52 ha, 16.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tawin East 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Jul 2025N/a
of A) dwellinghouse on revised site boundaries, B) Retain existing garage, C) Retain elevation changes to dwellinghouse. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 139.50 sqm (Dwelling), 38.34 sqm (Garage)
Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 25159
16 Nov 2021Refused
to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 198.7 sqm, Garage: 37.5 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212131
4 Dec 2020Refused
to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. A Natura Impact Statement and Construction Environmental Management Plan will be submitted to the planning authority with the application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 198.70 sqm (house), 37.50 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201842
1 May 2020Conditional
of A) dwellinghouse on revised site boundaries, B) Retain existing garage, C) Retain elevation changes to dwellinghouse. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 139.50 sqm (Dwelling), 38.34 sqm (Garage)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20539
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
- Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tawin East.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tawin East.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Tawin East.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map does not classify the townland of Tawin East.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tawin East.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tawin East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Tawin East · Tamhain Thoir
- Area
- 771,129 m² (77.11 ha, 190.55 acres)
- Neighbouring townlands
- Tawin West
- Placenames
- Tawin East 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.