Tonroe

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonroe, from 18 m² to 307,365 m² (30.74 ha, 75.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Tonroe 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.

• 27 Jul 2026N/a

  for the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, detached garage, car port, entrance gate and piers, wastewater treatment system & percolation area and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and submitted with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661290

• 13 Apr 2026Refused

  for the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, detached garage, car port, entrance gate and piers, wastewater treatment system & percolation area and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and submitted with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660552

• 14 Feb 2025Conditional

  to construct a four bay loose cattle shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 303 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2522

• 21 Nov 2023Conditional

  for alterations and additions to the existing dwelling house including; 1. The removal of existing single storey side sunroom and the construction of a new single storey side extension; 2. The construction of a new rear extension and 3. All the associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 53.24 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 12.80 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361392

• 9 Sept 2022Conditional

  to construct of a five bay loose cattle shed on their lands. Gross floor space of proposed works: 288 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 221038

• 24 Mar 2022Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 141 sqm (dwelling house) and 35 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260276

• 10 Jan 2020Conditional

  to construct of a three bay double slatted shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 234.7 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2016

• 8 Sept 2017Conditional

  to construct a three bay single slatted shed with creep area. Gross floor space of work 199sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171346

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tonroe.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Tonroe, 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tonroe · An Tóin Rua

Area

1,171,466 m² (117.15 ha, 289.48 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Drumkeary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

625 people lived in 217 households in the Drumkeary electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barratoor, Callatra, Carrowcrin, Curragh, Derrygarriff, Lisheeny, Ross

Placenames

Tonroe 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.