Ardaun West

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardaun West, from 162 m² to 136,003 m² (13.6 ha, 33.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ardaun West 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 Sept 2023Conditional

  chun teach cónaithe, córas séarachais, garáiste, agus gach obair láithreáin ag teastáil, a thógáil. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe: 182sqm (h) & 60sqm (g)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23383

• 6 Apr 2023Refused

  chun teach cónaithe, córas séarachais, garáiste agus gach obair láithreáin ag teastáil o thógáil

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23141

• 6 Dec 2022Refused

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, sewage treatment unit and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 260 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221216

• 15 Sept 2022Refused

  chun Teach Cónaithe, Córas Séarachais, Garáiste, agus gach obair láithreáin ag teastáil, a thógáil. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe: 348 sqm (H) & 60 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221050

• 2 Mar 2022Conditional

  for an existing dwelling, garage/shed and garden shed with associated services previously granted under planning reference no. 012115. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 186 sqm (house) & 34 sqm (garage)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22278

• 3 Jul 2020N/a

  to construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and domestic garage along with all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 242.6 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20872

• 21 Mar 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 270 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19399

• 7 Nov 2018Refused

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 288 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181585

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA027-001 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On the summit of a glacial ridge overlooking Lough Corrib to S. Very poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (E-W c. 33m) defined by a grassed-over stone wall from SW to NE. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere; a bungalow occupies SE portion of the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ardaun West, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ardaun West · An tArdán Thiar

Area

864,626 m² (86.46 ha, 213.65 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Cloonbur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,267 people lived in 389 households in the Cloonbur electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardaun East, Ballymaglancy, Carrowhekeen, Dooroy

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ardaun West 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.