Gallowshill
Townland in the civil parish of Kilfintinan, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Cnoc na Croiche
- Area
- 107.6 ha
- 266 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 3,080 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gallowshill, from 59 m² to 261,992 m² (26.2 ha, 64.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gallowshill 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Apr 2025N/a
to build a new dwelling, install a wastewater treatment system, create a new entrance onto the public road & all other associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25107
5 Feb 2021Conditional
for development which will consist of revisions to house design, including changes to the dwelling and garage location to that previously granted under Planning Ref. P18-781. The revisions to dwelling will include changes to elevations and internal layout
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2179
18 Mar 2020Refused
to construct an entrance, dwelling house, detached garage, advanced wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20195
5 Apr 2019N/a
for the construction of dwelling house, proprietary treatment plant and percolation area including ancillary site works
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 19259
8 Oct 2018Conditional
for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18781
19 Jan 2018Conditional
for a) The attic conversion and adjacent balcony; b) The conversion of the garage and c) The two sheds and all associated works
Retention · Clare County Council, 1825
11 Aug 2017Conditional
to a) RETAIN existing dwelling house as built, b) RETAIN site entrance entrance location and c) RETAIN existing Garage & Stables together with all associated site development works and services
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17621
11 Jul 2017Conditional
to erect a glasshouse
Permission · Clare County Council, 17536
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Natural Heritage Area: Woodcock Hill Bog NHA 002402
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gallowshill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gallowshill.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Gallowshill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gallowshill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Gallowshill · Cnoc na Croiche
- Area
- 1,075,676 m² (107.57 ha, 265.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfintinan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Mountievers, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mountievers electoral division: 1,410 people in 471 households; 85% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybroughan, Ballyvoughallan, Bunnabinnia South, Cappanalaght, Carrowmore, Heathmount, Woodcockhill
- Placenames
- Gallowshill 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.