Lehinch

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lehinch, from 1,334 m² to 156,025 m² (15.6 ha, 38.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Lehinch 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.

• 21 Mar 2023Refused

  to construct a slatted shed with loose area to include manure pit, concrete approns and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 311.62 sqm (shed), 108 sqm (manure pit) and 211.54 sqm (aprons)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23111

• 12 Jan 2023N/a

  to construct a slatted shed with loose area to include manure pit, concrete aprons and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Shed = 311.62sqm, Manure Pit = 108sqm, Aprons = 211.54sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 233

• 22 Mar 2022N/a

  for works consisting of a) New dwelling house, b) Domestic Garage & c) connection to existing public wastewater system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 170 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22384

• 3 Aug 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 346.62 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211418

• 6 Oct 2020Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage / fuel store and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 269.22 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201452

• 24 Jun 2020Refused

  to construct a new fully serviced private dwelling house, private garage / fuel store and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed development: 295.54 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20789

• 25 May 2020Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage / fuel store and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 346.62 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20632

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilkerrin Turlough 001279

Recorded monuments

• GA031-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On S-facing slope overlooking a turlough. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 50m). Levelled in 1974 for the purpose of building a house. 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

• GA031-052 Earthwork
  Description

  On a low hummock in flat marshy land known locally as 'Lehinch Lake'; a partially drained turlough. A low circular earthen platform (D 15.9m, H 1.6m) in fair condition. Two trees are growing at S edge of its flat summit (D 8m). According to local tradition, there was a stone-built 'look-out tower' with 'windows' here. No visible surface trace of it survives but it was probably synonymous with the tiny open circle shown on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map, on W part of the mound. There is an entrance to a natural limestone cave nearby. Possibly a small lake dwelling or a landscape feature; the 'tower' could have been a folly. 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

• GA031-053 Quarry
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of a hill in poorly drained pastueland. An unenclosed area of scrub marked on the 1931 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused and overgrown quarry pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 July 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Lehinch, 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 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 Lehinch.

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

Name

Lehinch · An Leithinse

Area

818,357 m² (81.84 ha, 202.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkerrin, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Shankill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

355 people lived in 131 households in the Shankill electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowleana, Glebe, Kilkerrin, Rockfield West, Slieveroe, Tullaghaun

Placenames

Lehinch 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.