Duniry

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Duniry, from 1,263 m² to 187,993 m² (18.8 ha, 46.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Duniry 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.

• 18 Oct 2022Conditional

  to construct (1) a slatted cubicle house with underground slurry storage tanks extending into an existing cubicle house, (2) the fitting of a cantilever canopy to cover feed passage of the existing cubicle house, (3) a general storage shed and all associated site work. Gross floor space of proposed works: 541.72sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 221114

• 11 Oct 2022Conditional

  of a slatted cubicle house with underground slurry storage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 506.6 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 221103

• 15 Nov 2019Conditional

  to change location of silage slab with apron and all associated site works on revised site boundaries form that granted under planning ref. no. 19/1027. Gross floor space of proposed works: 897 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191779

• 3 Jul 2019Conditional

  to 1) Retain existing silo. 2) Construct silage slab with apron and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 897 sqm (Silage slab).

  Retention · Galway County Council, 191027

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 Duniry.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Duniry.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch road bridge over Duniry River, built c.1800. Rubble limestone walls and parapet walls with vertical rubble limestone copings to east parapet and curved render coping to west parapet. V-cutwaters to east elevation and recent rendered rectangular-profile cutwaters to west elevation. Round-headed arches with tooled limestone voussoirs and plinths.

• Water pump, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, with banded cylindrical shaft, fluted neck and domed cap, pointed finial, banded spout with bucket grip, and curved cow's tail pumping handle. Set at road junction.

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 Duniry, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Duniry · Dún Doighre

Area

478,755 m² (47.88 ha, 118.3 acres)

Civil parish

Duniry, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Tynagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

472 people lived in 169 households in the Tynagh electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bracklagh, Cloonacastle, Feagh, Garryhubert, Lackabaun, Moor, Newtownbracklagh, Tomany More

Placenames

Duniry 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.