Tumneenaun

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tumneenaun, from 111 m² to 217,528 m² (21.75 ha, 53.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Tumneenaun 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.

• 27 Mar 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house with a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 225.00 sqm(H)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560336

• 16 May 2019N/a

  for the following; 1) Permission for a extension to the side and front of the existing dwelling house, 2) Proposed alterations to the existing roof and front façade of the building, 3) Proposed alteration to the existing rear porch, and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 315.84 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19744

• 12 Oct 2017Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling with septic tank and wastewater treatment plant. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 126sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171488

• 24 Jul 2017Conditional

  for retention of dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area on revised site boundaries.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171092

• 16 Mar 2017N/a

  for the retention of dwellinghouse, garage, septic tank and percolation area on revised site boundaries. Retention is also sought for footpath, timber decking and timber shed along the lake shore. (Gross floor space of works to be retained: 175 sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 17358

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

• GA027-041 Enclosure
  Description

  Encompassing the summit of a rocky knoll. Poorly preserved oval enclosure (E-W 33.2m, N-S 10.2m) defined by a grassed-over stone wall. It is delimited by a berm, the outer face of which is revetted by stone from NW to NE. The interior may have contained a CBG (GA027-041001-). 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

• GA027-041001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within an oval enclosure (GA027-041----). Both the site name, correctly Lisín na Cafffach, and the td. name suggest the presence of a CBG. However, no visible surface trace survives in 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

• GA027-042 Cairn - wayside cairn
  Description

  On SW-facing slope immediately N of the line of an old roadway. Poorly preserved, rectangular cairn (E-W 1.6m, H 0.9m) which appears to have had a stepped profile. 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

• GA027-046 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Ebor Hall, country house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement U-plan house, built c.1860, having slightly projecting end bays to front, three-bay side elevations, and single-storey addition to reare with later conservatory addition. Hipped short slate roof, having two gables to rear elevation, rendered brackets to eaves, and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with raised render quoins and with string courses between basement and ground floor and between ground and first floors. Square-headed replacement windows throughout, with limestone sills, and having decorative bracketed cornices to front ground floor openings. Round-headed doorway having spoked timber fanlight, timber panelled door with flaning panelled timber pilasters and with moulded timber cornice, accessed by flight of limestone steps having limestone plinth walls with cast-iron urns. Outbuildings to north and west, including four-bay two-storey house having pitched slate roof, coursed rubble stone walls and chimneystacks, openings with limestone lintels and with single-bay single-storey addition recessed to east gable having hipped slate roof. Yard entered through dressed limestone piers having plinths and pyramidal caps, set into rubble stone wall. Gate lodge and gates to road entrance.

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 Tumneenaun, 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 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 Tumneenaun.

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

Name

Tumneenaun · Tom Naíonán

Area

1,241,509 m² (124.15 ha, 306.78 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

Ballard, Carrowkeel, Dooroy, Gortnarup

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Tumneenaun 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.