Doonard

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonard, from 162 m² to 72,507 m² (7.25 ha, 17.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Doonard 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.

• 8 Apr 2025Conditional

  for a change of use of part of the ground floor in the existing front two storey Furniture showroom building to a Café / Restaurant, including minor façade glazing amendments to the two storey building, new signage and permission is sought to connect to a proposed septic tank and percolation treatment system as per PL.REF. 23/61158

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560393

• 27 May 2024Refused

  of shed as constructed and permission for change of use to workshop. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 21.90 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2460618

• 27 Sept 2023Conditional

  to construct a single storey detached café/restaurant building at the Craughwell Furniture premises, Doonard. The permission is to include all related ground works, site services & associated landscaping including a septic tank & percolation for the proposed premises.The permission includes the demolition of the existing single storey storage buildings

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361158

• 30 Jun 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, treatment plant, percolation area & domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360733

• 16 Mar 2018Conditional

  to 1) construct single storey extension to side and rear of existing commercial building consisting of coffee dock, extension to existing shop area, and storage. 2) alterations to entrance/exit, 3) relocation of existing store to rear and construct an extension to same, 4) relocation of existing portocabin, 5) replacement of existing sewage treatment plant with upgrade treatment plant, 6) relocation of existing car wash unit and provision of percolation area for same, 7) upgrading of existing car parking facilities and provide additional spaces with cycle bay, 8) provide retaining wall and filling to north west side of site and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 475.19 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18326

• 18 Sept 2017Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling house and garage, wastewater treatment plant, road access, proposed well, site services and landscaping. Gross floor space of proposed works house 267sqm, Garage 57sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171387

• 10 May 2017N/a

  for construction of a new dwellinghouse and garage, wastewater treatment plant, road access, proposed well, site services and landscaping. (Gross floor space of proposed works: House 267 sqm., garage 57 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17659

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 Doonard.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-185 Bridge
  Description

  Desribed as follows in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (Reg. No.: 30336010): 'Six-arch limestone road bridge over Craughwell River, built c.1600 and widened to west perhaps late seventeenth century and to east c.1780. Original bridge was ten feet wide, early widening added two feet and later widening added same width again as original bridge. Formerly in use as vehicular bridge, now bypassed and in use as pedestrian bridge. Well preserved wicker centring to soffits of earliest part, and partly hidden arch ring towards west side of bridge, is of irregular voussoirs. Rubble stone walls, piers and parapet walls. Piers apparently refaced in squared limestone blocks, perhaps at time of latest work. Segmental arches to east elevation with cut-stone voussoirs and dressed stone V-cutwaters. Pointed round and segmental to west elevation.' (http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 24 September 2012

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1580–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Six-arch limestone road bridge over Craughwell River, built c.1600 and widened to west perhaps late seventeenth century and to east c.1780. Original bridge was ten feet wide, early widening added two feet and later widening added same width again as original bridge. Formerly in use as vehicular bridge, now bypassed and in use as pedestrian bridge. Well preserved wicker centring to soffits of earliest part, and partly hidden arch ring towards west side of bridge, is of irregular voussoirs. Rubble stone walls, piers and parapet walls. Piers apparently refaced in squared limestone blocks, perhaps at time of latest work. Segmental arches to east elevation with cut-stone voussoirs and dressed stone V-cutwaters. Pointed round and segmental to west elevation.

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 Doonard, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Doonard · Dún Ard

Area

173,115 m² (17.31 ha, 42.78 acres)

Civil parish

Killora, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Craughwell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,092 people lived in 690 households in the Craughwell electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore, Craughwell, Creggaun, Killora, Roo

Placenames

Doonard 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.