Carhoon

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carhoon, from 130 m² to 67,783 m² (6.78 ha, 16.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Carhoon 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.

• 16 Aug 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment plant and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 197.78 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22972

• 31 Jan 2017Conditional

  to construct an extension to an existing shed of 123.4 sqm. including a slatted tank.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 1788

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 Carhoon.

Recorded monuments

• GA117-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (29.8m N-S; 24.3m E-W) defined by a scarp. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 February 2019

• GA117-107 Bullaun stone (present location)
  Description

  This bullaun stone now forms part of the landscaping of the front garden of a modern bungalow. It was found by the landowner when he was bulldozing a roadway into his workshop to the SE. The boulder (L 1.08m; Wth 076m; H 0.5m) is of granite and the basin (0.6 x 0.4m; D 0.2m) occupies much of its surface. The field in which the house is situated is known locally as Liss Hill. The following image has been uploaded: GA117-107----_01.jpg View from N Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 July 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carhoon, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Carhoon · An Cheathrúin

Area

997,224 m² (99.72 ha, 246.42 acres)

Civil parish

Tynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Moat, the unit of the census

Census 2022

153 people lived in 55 households in the Moat electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooncona, Coolbaun, Coolbaun West, Kilmurry, Kilnamullaun, Lisduff, Raheen, Skehanagh

Placenames

Carhoon 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.