Rahyconor

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rahyconor, from 20 m² to 148,133 m² (14.81 ha, 36.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rahyconor 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.

• 18 May 2023Conditional

  of 1. reconstruction and extension of fully serviced private dwelling house to include new porch; 2. conversion of existing building to habitable use; and 3. private garage/store to include all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23203

• 5 Apr 2022Conditional

  for construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage; new sewage treatment system and percolation area; all associated site works and services including a new site entrance. Gross floor space of proposed works: 287 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22454

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 Rahyconor.

Recorded monuments

• GA107-163 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hillock in grassland. Circular rath (diam. 45m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse with traces of a possible outer bank at W. The fosse is extant from NW through N to SW; elsewhere it survives as a vegetation band. A gap at E appears to be original. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2018

• GA107-164 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 16 July 2015

• GA107-165 Quarry
  Description

  On a hummock in pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a subcircular depression, possibly a disused sand or gravel pit filled with field-clearance stones. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

• GA107-166 Quarry
  Description

  On a hillock in grassland. A hachured feature marked on the 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a series of overgrown hollows, probably a disused sand or gravel pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

• GA107-167 Quarry
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area defined by a series of dots. No visible surface trace survived when inspected in 1984. Cartographic evidence suggests that it was a quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Rahyconor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rahyconor · Ráth Uí Chonchúir

Area

553,927 m² (55.39 ha, 136.88 acres)

Civil parish

Tynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Moat, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moat electoral division: 153 people in 55 households; 87% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonprask, Coolagh, Cormick, Garraunnameetagh, Kilnamullaun, Kilnamullaun, Lisduff

Placenames

Rahyconor 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.