Island West

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Island West, from 6,121 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres) to 211,105 m² (21.11 ha, 52.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Island West 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Island West 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Island West.

Recorded monuments

• GA001-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low but prominent hill in grassland surrounded on three sides by bogland. A subcircular rath (N-S 61m, E-W 55m), in fair condition, defined by a bank from N to E, and elsewhere by a scarp. A field bank encircles the enclosing element from SW through N to NE, and another cuts across the rath at NE and SSE. In NW quadrant , a low wedge-shaped platform (L 9m, H 0.75m), narrowing from 7m in width at S to 4.7m at N, is possibly a house foundation (GA001-020001-). There is a small rectangular hollow at S end, the result of digging in recent years. This is pointed out as the site of a 'cave' (possible souterrain - GA001-020001-) but no visible surface trace of such is visible. A number of low banks are also visible to E and SE of it, running principally on a NW-SE axis; possible internal subdivisions. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 28 September 2017

• GA001-020001 Souterrain
  Description

  On a low but prominent hill in grassland surrounded on three sides by bogland. A subcircular rath (N-S 61m, E-W 55m), in fair condition, defined by a bank from N to E, and elsewhere by a scarp. A field bank encircles the enclosing element from SW through N to NE, and another cuts across the rath at NE and SSE. In NW quadrant, a low wedge-shaped platform (L 9m, H 0.75), narrowing from 7m in width at S to 4.7m at N, is possibly a house foundation. There is a small rectangular hollow at S end, the result of digging in recent years. This is pointed out as the site of a 'cave' (possible souterrain) but no visible surface trace of such is visible. A number of low banks are also visibleto E and SE of it, running principally on a NW-SE axis; possible internal subdivisions. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA001-020002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Island West, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Island West · An tOileán Thiar

Area

899,633 m² (89.96 ha, 222.3 acres)

Civil parish

Templetogher, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Island, the unit of the census

Census 2022

252 people lived in 97 households in the Island electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 26% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brierfort, Cloonfineen (Co. Roscommon), Derryvung (Co. Roscommon), Island East, Lettera, Meelickroe (Co. Roscommon), Pollynoon

Placenames

Island West 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.