Loughinch

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughinch, from 35 m² to 220,365 m² (22.04 ha, 54.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Loughinch 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.

• 15 May 2023Conditional

  for the development consisting of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360511

• 1 Jul 2022Conditional

  for an agricultural entrance & all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260672

• 4 Feb 2022N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, on site sewage treatment system, new site access and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed works 275.33 sqm (dwelling house) & 28sqm (garage).

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260065

• 26 Mar 2021N/a

  dwelling house, domestic garage, on site sewage treatment system, new site access and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed works dwelling 275.33 sqm , garage 28sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21468

• 26 Jul 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a domestic wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181062

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 Loughinch.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughinch.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Loughinch, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_380 (ZIP).

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

Name

Loughinch · Loch Inse

Area

326,228 m² (32.62 ha, 80.61 acres)

Civil parish

Rahoon, and its townlands

Barony

Galway

Electoral division

Barna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,866 people lived in 1,287 households in the Barna electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aille, Cloghscoltia

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Loughinch 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.