Bookeen South

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bookeen South, from 80 m² to 145,871 m² (14.59 ha, 36.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Bookeen South 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.

• 25 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a domestic garage and all associated site services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561024

• 17 Jul 2025Conditional

  of existing cottage, proposed new extension to the rear of cottage, new effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 48.08 sqm(extension), 45.23 sqm(retention)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560968

• 14 Apr 2025N/a

  for (1) retention of existing cottage. (2) Proposed new extension to the rear of cottage. (3) New effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor area of works: 51.68 sqm(extension), 47.78 sqm(retention)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560417

• 6 Mar 2025N/a

  of existing cottage. (2)Proposed new extension to the rear of cottage. (3) New effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560228

• 8 Feb 2023Conditional

  for change of house plans, garage plans and revision to site entrance position with all associated site works under previously granted full planning permission reference number 21/1401. Gross floor space of proposed works 329.49sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360090

• 30 Jul 2021Conditional

  for a new dwelling house & domestic garage, along with a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 252 sqm (house) & 46 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211401

• 16 Jan 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house with integrated garage, sewage treatment system and associated services and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 198.20 sqm, Garage - 91.90 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2034

• 16 Oct 2019Conditional

  consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, external store, wastewater treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site development and external works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 190 sqm, Garage - 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191605

• 27 Sept 2018Conditional

  to construct a new waste water treatment system with percolation area to serve existing dwelling house.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181365

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  for change of plan to dwellinghouse approved under planning reference numbers 08/581 and 13/416, to include upgrade to proposed waste water treatment system (gross floor space 219.4sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171846

• 22 Jun 2017Conditional

  of dwellinghouse and proprietary treatment system on a site with revised boundaries (Gross floor space 192.68sqm)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17918

• 11 May 2017Conditional

  for a forest access road and entrance at Bookeen South, Kiltullagh, Athenry, Co. Galway.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17667

• 9 Mar 2017N/a

  for a forest access road and entrance at Bookeen South, Kiltullagh, Athenry, Co. Galway.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17316

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 Bookeen South.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-021 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  On the summit of a densely wooded rise. During the course of an illegal excavation in 1980 into this small, roughly circular, overgrown earthen mound (diam. c. 6.7m; H < 1.4m) an unprotected crouched adult skeleton (possibly male), aligned E-W, was found. The mound was described as 'bow-barrow type burial mound' (Topgr. files, NMI). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 November 2019

• GA097-024 Mound
  Description

  Within a forestry plantation, c. 3m to the W of a stream. This oval flat-topped earthen mound (27m N-S; 21.7m E-W; H 1.8m), with steeply sloping sides, is composed of earth. Trees have been planted on it. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 July 2019

• GA097-025 Enclosure
  Description

  In level woodland. Marked as hachured enclosure on the OS 6-inch maps but McCaffrey (1952, 166, no. 17) regarded it as a possible natural hillock in bogland. A faint scarp encloses a subcircular area (diam. c. 22m) that is covered with trees. Possibly a small rath or barrow. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 February 2019

• GA097-026 Church
  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.

• GA097-026001 Graveyard
  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.

• GA097-027 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in marshy grassland adjacent to a stream. This fulacht fia is defined by a low C-shaped mound (11m N-S) of grassed-over burnt stone opening out to the E. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 November 2019

Architectural heritage

• Bookeen Hall, church/chapel, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c.1820, having three-bay nave, three-stage entrance tower, lean-to entrance porch to north-east elevation and lean-to vestry to south-west elevation. Now in use as house. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cut limestone copings and recent roof lights, crenellations to tower with cut limestone string courses and copings. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone string courses to tower. Pointed arch window openings with cut limestone surrounds and sills and replacement two-light timber Y-tracery. Pointed arch door opening to tower, with cut limestone surround and timber battened door with overlight. Dressed limestone piers with plinths, string courses and pyramidal caps, with double-leaf metal gates to front of site, rubble stone boundary walls. Set within its own grounds.

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 Bookeen South, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Bookeen South · An Buaicín Theas

Area

1,573,300 m² (157.33 ha, 388.77 acres)

Civil parish

Lickerrig, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilconierin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

741 people lived in 238 households in the Kilconierin electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahown, Bookeen North, Cahernalee, Carrowkeel, Carrowroe North, Carrowroe South, Dunsandle, Lisnadrisha, Tooloobaunbeg

Placenames

Bookeen South 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.