Annagh
Annagh is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymacward, barony of Kilconnell, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is An tEanach.
Parcel 1996169
- Area
- 2,020 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 49 m².
- 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
- Annagh
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
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.
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
- 322 ha
- 796 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 27,509 m² (2.75 ha, 6.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Annagh, from 970 m² to 402,809 m² (40.28 ha, 99.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Annagh 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
17 Sept 2026N/a
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Previous Panning Reference No. 21/1002
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26239
18 Nov 2025Conditional
to carry out renovations & construct an extension to the rear of an existing single storey dwellinghouse: (1) to demolish 2 no. bedrooms to the rear of building & replace with bathroom & utility room. (2) to relocate entrance door at the east side of house to the west side. (3) for 2 no. bedrooms to be located to the front of house. (4) for main entrance to house from public road to be relocated from the east side of house to the existing gate opening to be increased by 4.5m width on the west side. (5) for new extension to include kitchen & living room. (6) to adjust roof structure to facilitate new extension & (7) to relocate windows & doors as required
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561689
13 Jun 2022Conditional
for the demolition of existing farmhouse and shed, the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house, detached garage, installation of an on-site treatment system along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 395 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22768
8 Jun 2021Conditional
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/ fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 176.76sqm (House) and 53.94sqm (Garage /fuel shed)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211002
18 Mar 2020N/a
for change of use of existing Cattle Shed and Dungstead granted under Planning Ref; 05/4794 to agricultural storage shed for storage of organic compost and biosolids material during winter months and all associate site works; Gross floor space of proposed works; 272sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 20347
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Annagh.
Recorded monuments
- GA073-005 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
On a rise in flat marshy grassland. A poorly preserved circular rath (D 31m) defined by a bank of which no visible surface trace survives at N and E. Within the interior is a grassed- over rectangular house (E-W; L 8m, Wth 7.3m). 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
- GA073-006 Enclosure
Description
In flat farmland, 100m N of Annagh House. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) as an oval enclosure (NW-SE c. 50m, E-W c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. 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
- GA073-007 Burial mound
Description
On gently undulating farmland immediately NE of a byroad. Originally a stony circular mound (D 35m, H 5.5m), the SW half was completely removed in 1977 during road widening. This revealed a cist composed of at least six slabs, only three of which remain in situ, though now partially slipped. These indicate a chamber (Wth c. 1.5m, H c. 1.8m ext.) aligned approximately NE-SW. According to local information, a quantity of bone was removed from the cist. 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
- GA073-008 Quarry
Description
In undulating pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused sand pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 July 2014
- GA073-009 Quarry
Description
In undulating pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused quarry pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 July 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Annagh.
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 Annagh, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Annagh.
- 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 Annagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Annagh · An tEanach
- Area
- 3,220,156 m² (322.02 ha, 795.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymacward, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilconnell
- Electoral division
- Annagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 383 people lived in 136 households in the Annagh electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Alloonbaun, Attiregan, Cloonatleva Lower, Cloongawna, Fohanagh, Garrafine (Ussher), Gortyroyan West, Liscune Upper, Lisgub East, Whitepark
- Placenames
- Annagh 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.