Srahaunnagort or Thornfield

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Srahaunnagort or Thornfield, from 87 m² to 110,474 m² (11.05 ha, 27.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Srahaunnagort or Thornfield 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.

• 31 Jul 2026N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house domestic garage/fuel store with wastewater treatment plant, existing site access & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661340

• 19 Jun 2026Refused

  for mixed use shed, together with all associated site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2661019

• 15 Nov 2024Refused

  for a mixed use shed, together with all associated site works. Gross floor area of works to be retained: 138 sqm (storage shed), 72 sqm (commercial)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 24329

• 29 Apr 2024Conditional

  for decommissioning and removal from the site of the existing steel modular site welfare unit 23 m², tanks, pipework, existing boundary fence and all other associated clearance works; construction of a new below-ground storm water tank along with all associated ancillary equipment; construction of a new below-ground circular primary settling tank; construction of a new stormwater overflow outfall from the proposed stormwater tank discharging to Ballygar Stream; construction of a new below ground forward feed pumping station downstream of the proposed primary settling tank to lift flows to the proposed trickling filter splitter chamber; construction of 2 no. new below-ground final settlement tanks,; construction of 6 no. new sludge drying reed beds (SDRB); provision of 2 no. new progressive cavity pumps. Construction of a new below-ground SDRB and sludge recirculation pump sump; construction of a new below-ground final effluent pumping station and approximately 2.5km of rising main and approximately 328m of 225mm gravity sewer network and associated manholes and headwall for discharge to the River Suck; and construction of a control building to include a laboratory, workshop/storage room, control room, toilets and kitchenette of approximately 123 m² and approximately 5m in height with up to approximately 62 m² of roof mounted solar panels. All associated works including all associated interconnecting above and below ground pipework, valves, telemetry, plant and equipment, construction of an internal access road, 3 no. parking spaces, EV charge point, replacement of existing security fencing with new security fencing of 2.4m high green steel palisade fence, generator with integrated fuel storage tank, lighting columns of maximum height 6m and landscaping. This application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Gross floor space of proposed works: 123 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 23 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460474

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
• Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222

Recorded monuments

• GA033-053 Quarry
  Description

  On a slight rise in meadowland. A hachured feature marked on the 1926 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be an disused gravel pit defined by a hollow. Probably of 19th/20th-century date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 3 October 2014

• GA033-056 Designed landscape feature
  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

• Mount Talbot Bridge, bridge, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Twelve-arch limestone bridge, built c.1750, carrying main Roscommon-Galway road over River Suck. Comprising random coursed stone walls, dressed voussoirs to arch-rings and full-height V-cut-waters to both up and downstream elevations and rising without break to level of parapets. Westernmost arch blocked up with limestone rubble. Pedestrian refuges to parapet. Parapet copings have slabs laid flat giving neat finish. Slight rise in bridge surface and arches increase in size towards centre of bridge. Slit opening over each arch for draining road surface. Soffits of arches all gunnelled. Tie-plates to each side of arches. Wrought-iron kissing gate to north-east within wall giving access to river's edge.

• Thornfield House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Vehicular entrance gates to Thornfield House, erected c.1840, comprising inner and outer piers of channelled ashlar limestone having moulded cornices and low-pitched pyramidal caps. Cast-iron railings and gates between, set on low, quadrant walls of ashlar limestone with moulded copings. Three-bay single-storey L-plan gate lodge opposite gateway, having later flat-roofed extension to north side, and three-bay south side. Windbreak to doorway of channelled ashlar with open-bed pediment and with dropped keystone to door opening. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed replacement timber windows with painted sills. Square-headed doorway with glazed timber door. Rendered boundary wall to small front garden.

• Mount Talbot Bridge, bridge, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Twelve-arch limestone bridge, built c.1750, carrying main Roscommon-Galway road over River Suck. Comprising random coursed stone walls, dressed voussoirs to arch-rings and full-height V-cut-waters to both up and downstream elevations and rising without break to level of parapets. Westernmost arch blocked up with limestone rubble. Pedestrian refuges to parapet. Parapet copings have slabs laid flat giving neat finish. Slight rise in bridge surface and arches increase in size towards centre of bridge. Slit opening over each arch for draining road surface. Soffits of arches all gunnelled. Tie-plates to each side of arches. Wrought-iron kissing gate to north-east within wall giving access to river's edge.

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 Srahaunnagort or Thornfield, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Srahaunnagort or Thornfield.

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

Name

Srahaunnagort or Thornfield · Sraith Bhun na nGort

Area

827,790 m² (82.78 ha, 204.55 acres)

Civil parish

Athleague, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Killeroran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,301 people lived in 512 households in the Killeroran electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonruff, Garreer, Lisheenteige, Mount Talbot (Co. Roscommon), Tully, Tullyroe

Placenames

Srahaunnagort or Thornfield 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.