Doon

105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doon, from 373 m² to 234,835 m² (23.48 ha, 58.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 48 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 Doon 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.

• 10 Jun 2026Conditional

  to erect a new single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660937

• 8 Aug 2025Conditional

  to construct a five bay slatted cattle shed

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25203

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.58 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561013

• 8 Apr 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a Dwelling House, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 218 sqm(H)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560395

• 26 Jul 2023Conditional

  to construct a new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360847

• 16 Jun 2023Conditional

  for alterations to existing dwellinghouse & to construct an extension & new wastewater treatment system & retain existing site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360663

• 13 Jan 2023Refused

  for alterations to existing dwelling house and to construct an extension and new wastewater treatment system and all associated works.Gross floor space of proposed works 147.02sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360013

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  for proposed domestic dwelling including domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: house 280sqm garage 23.02

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212459

• 1 May 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwellings - 242.81 sqm, Garage 51.7.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19650

• 11 Jan 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with an onsite foul treatment unit and polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 298.16sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1815

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 Doon.

Recorded monuments

• GA098-089 Earthwork
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 and 1933 editions of the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular terraced mound (c. 45m N-S; c. 38m E-W). According to local information, it was known locally as ‘Doon Hill’ and had ‘three rings’. It was extensively quarried out in the early 1980s. On inspection in April 1985 a series of banks and mounds were visible but it was not possible to determine whether these were part of the original monument or just upcast resulting from the quarrying. Current aerial imagery (Google 2019) suggests that the area has since been levelled but a change in vegetation colour indicates the area of the site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 July 2019

• GA098-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 34.5m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 4.5m-6m; int. H 0.4m-0.95m; ext. H 1.45m-1.7m) survives from NNE through E to SSW. The fosse (Wth 3m) and outer bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.35m) survive from NE to E. The W portion of the monument is obscured by a number of field banks. Lazy beds, running WNW-ESE, are visible within the interior. A small roughly rectangular area (L 4.8m; Wth 2.5m) defined by a stony bank in the N half may be the last vestiges of a house site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 September 2018

• GA098-092 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (33m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by a low grassed-over drystone wall. At WSW the wall projects outwards where there is a gap (Wth 8.7m); this appears to be original. A field wall cuts across the monument from NNE to S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 December 2017

• GA098-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. This poorly preserved oval rath (c. 40m N-S; c. 28m E-W) is defined by a low bank, except from NW to NE where a scarp forms the enclosing element. Later field banks may overlie the bank from NE to S and from W to NW. There is a large gap (Wth 7.2m) at S. A small subcircular grassed-over stony mound within the centre of the interior may be the remains of a hut site (GA098-093002-). A number of field banks (GA098-093001-) to the S may also be associated. There is a cashel c. 200m to the WNW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 March 2019

• GA098-093001 Field system
  Description

  About 5m to SSE, S and SSW of the rath (GA098-093----), three grassed-over stony banks, varying in length from 23.8m at SSE to 51.8m at SSW, are visible. They may be associated with the rath. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 March 2019

• GA098-093002 Hut site
  Description

  Within the centre of the interior of a rath (GA098-093----). A small subcircular grassed-over stony mound may be the remains of a hut site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 March 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Doon, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Doon · An Dún

Area

3,468,997 m² (346.9 ha, 857.21 acres)

Civil parish

Kilreekill, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilreekill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

373 people lived in 130 households in the Kilreekill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahernagarry, Carnaun, Carra, Lecarrownagappoge, Newgrove, Wallscourt

Placenames

Doon 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.