Sonnagh New
Sonnagh New is a townland in the civil parish of Killeenadeema, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Sonnach Nua.
Parcel 1985524
- Area
- 60,697 m² (6.07 ha, 15 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
- Sonnagh New
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 Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
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 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.
- 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.
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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
- 205.1 ha
- 507 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 59,683 m² (5.97 ha, 14.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sonnagh New, from 54 m² to 181,931 m² (18.19 ha, 44.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Sonnagh New 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
No planning application touches the townland of Sonnagh New 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
Recorded monuments
- GA115-048 Children's burial ground
Description
On a SW-facing slope in grassland. This overgrown rectangular children's burial ground (L 7.5m; Wth 6.6m) is defined by a stone wall. Within the interior numerous set stones indicate graves. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 September 2019
- GA115-050 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in undulating scrubland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (c. 41m E-W; c. 39m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and external fosse; the latter is visible from N through E to SW. Traces of internal stone-facing are visible on the bank from N through E to S. Numerous gaps appear to be modern. The interior is densely planted with fir trees. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 April 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sonnagh New.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Sonnagh New, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sonnagh New.
- 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 Sonnagh New with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Sonnagh New · Sonnach Nua
- Area
- 2,050,831 m² (205.08 ha, 506.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeenadeema, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughrea
- Electoral division
- Aille, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 429 people lived in 146 households in the Aille electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagreeve, Burroge, Caheratrim, Killeenadeema West, Kylegarriff, Sonnagh Old
- Placenames
- Sonnagh New 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.