Tonmoyle
Tonmoyle is a townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Tamhain Mhaol.
Parcel 2011055
- Area
- 14,818 m² (1.48 ha, 3.66 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 503 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
- Tonmoyle
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
- 179.9 ha
- 445 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 15,349 m² (1.53 ha, 3.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonmoyle, from 103 m² to 145,156 m² (14.52 ha, 35.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Tonmoyle 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
19 Jun 2025Conditional
to change the location of the driveway entrance and all associated works to that granted permission under planning reference 23/60979. The proposed change will maximise safe access and egress to the site with improved sight lines in both directions at the proposed relocated entrance
Permission · Galway County Council, 2560791
22 Aug 2024Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 239.50 sqm (house) & 60.00 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461100
26 Jun 2024Conditional
to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 204 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460781
27 Mar 2024Conditional
for change of roof design for a dwelling house under construction to that granted permission under planning reference 23/60979. The proposal is to change the flat single storey section of the roof to a pitched roof and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460343
4 Mar 2024Conditional
for instream habitat restoration works in the Kilgevrin River: including the addition of spawning gravel, random boulders, installation of alternating deflectors and excavation of pools. The development will include riparian buffer fencing and tree planting along the Kilgevrin river. The NIS has been submitted with this application
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460227
18 Aug 2023Conditional
to construct dwellinghouse, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area & all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360979
21 Jun 2023Conditional
to construct dwellinghouse, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area & all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360677
16 Apr 2022Conditional
to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 218 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260364
20 Feb 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 240 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260132
20 Feb 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 254.30 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260133
18 Jun 2021Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 201sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211089
19 Jul 2018Conditional
to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 236 sqm. (garage) 60 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181020
14 Jul 2017Conditional
of the existing dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works all on revised site boundaries from previous planning permission reference number 04/4401. Gross floor area 215m2 house, 38.6m2 garage
Retention · Galway County Council, 171046
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 Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
Recorded monuments
- GA016-129 Ringfort - rath
Description
In gently rolling grassland. An extremely overgrown D-shaped rath (NE-SW c. 40m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A stream surrounds the monument from NE through E to SE. 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
- GA016-130 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level grassland overlooking bogland to S. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 52m, N-S 50.5m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank survives from SE through S to SW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The outer bank survives only from SSE through S to SW. A field bank cuts the monument at NE and SE, to E of which 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tonmoyle.
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 Tonmoyle, 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 the townland of Tonmoyle.
- 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 Tonmoyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Tonmoyle · Tamhain Mhaol
- Area
- 1,799,093 m² (179.91 ha, 444.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tuam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunmore
- Electoral division
- Killeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 734 people lived in 245 households in the Killeen electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clashaganny, Cloonmoyle, Cloonnacorra, Curraghaun, Kilcreevanty, Kilgevrin, Kilphrasoga, Meelick West
- Placenames
- Tonmoyle 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.