Abbeytown

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Abbeytown, from 553 m² to 144,507 m² (14.45 ha, 35.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Abbeytown 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 2025Conditional

  of the location of the existing dwelling house as constructed on site including all associated services. Retention of the existing domestic garage as constructed on site. Retention of existing boundary treatments to the property, including the location of 1 No. existing vehicular access. Retention of 1 No. agricultural sheep shed as constructed on site. Retention of 1 No. agricultural slatted shed including ancillary slurry storage facilities as constructed on site. Permission is also being sought for the erection of a new agricultural machinery and dry storage shed, including all associated site development works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561061

• 29 Apr 2025N/a

  for the construction of a machinery & dry storage agricultural shed including all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 208 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560508

• 18 Feb 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 211 sqm (H), 54 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2524

• 6 Jun 2024Conditional

  for the construction of new two storey dwelling (398 sq.m.) and garage (58 sq.m.) with wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460681

• 5 Mar 2024Conditional

  for: (1) the demolition of existing dwelling house on site; and (2) the construction of a new dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area and domestic garage along with all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 243 sqm (house) & 38 sqm (garage). Gross floor space of any demolition: 92 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460238

• 16 Feb 2021Conditional

  of minor alterations to front elevations previously granted under Planning Reference No. 18/694.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21182

• 8 Jul 2019Conditional

  for the following: Construction of roof over roofless cubicles previously granted in planning application REF: 18/1322 and all other associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1095 sqm (G)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191046

• 20 Sept 2018Conditional

  for the following: (A) Construction of a milking parlour, dairy, ancillary rooms, livestock waiting yard, handling facilities and underground slatted channel, (B)Construction of an agricultural cubicle facility and straw bedded shed (C) Construction of an underground geomembrane lined slurry lagoon (D) Construction of a new farmyard entrance and access roadway (E) Construction of a livestock underpass and effluent holding tank and all other associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works - 675sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181322

• 25 May 2018Conditional

  to erect a serviced dwelling, garage and effluent treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 275 sqm. (garage) 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18694

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 Abbeytown.

Recorded monuments

• GA042-001001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Associated with a field system (GA042-001005-). Amongst the earthworks noted during aerial reconnaissance in January 1985 (ASGAP 211:37, 42) was a strongly curving fosse-like feature to N of the possible church (GA042-001002-). Though evidently much defaced and apparently overlain by the field system, it appears to comprise a shallow fosse with intermittent traces of a stony bank along its inner, or S, edge. Roughly centred on the church, it is visible from WNW through N to NE (D c. 140m). This is probably the same feature as the 'large arc of [a] ... cashel type wall' recorded by Higgins and McHugh (1990, 66-8) to NE of the church. They describe it as 'the remains of a substantial stone wall ... maximum height 0.33-0.40 metres' with traces of an external 'wall facing'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-001002 Church
  Description

  Within a probable early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA042-001001-). According to Grattan-Flood (quoted in Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 204-5), this was a dependant house of the Premonstratensian abbey at Annaghdown (GA069-001001-), founded 'in 1260 ... on the site of an earlier Celtic mon[astery]' (see also Higgins and McHugh 1990, 2-7, 68-9). The visible remains comprise a long but poorly preserved rectangular building (E-W; L c. 28.4m, Wth c. 5.9m) which occupies N side of the modern rectangular graveyard. Only its E gable, a stretch of N wall and a fragment at SE corner survive to full height. Excavations by Higgins and Mc Hugh (ibid., 21-65) in the late 1980s identified 'four main phases' (ibid., 25) ranging from the 13th to 17th C. Remains of the original doorway, of 13th-C date, were located towards W end of N wall. This was replaced by a W doorway in the 15-16th C, when W gable appears to have been rebuilt (ibid., 37-40). The foundations of two 'buildings', probably of 17th-C date, were also uncovered about mid-point along N wall (ibid., 22-6). The larger, interpreted as 'a north transept' (N-S c. 7.3m, E-W c. 5.1m), was abutted on E side by a possible 'sacristy' (N-S c. 4.9m, E-W c. 3.5m). The existence of two small windows in the surviving fabric at SW corner (ibid., 26-7, 65) indicate that there was once two storeys at this end. There is a small rectangular single-light window, of 17th-C date, in the surviving section of N wall, and another set off-centre in E gable. Their positioning and the striking basal plinth of E gable suggest that in its latest phase(s), this may have been a secular building rather than a church. Traces of walls were also noted in SW part of the graveyard. The finds included a number of medieval querns and graveslabs. (Nolan 1901b, 123; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 160) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-001003 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.

• GA042-001004 Graveslab
  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.

• GA042-001005 Field system
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating grassland. Aerial reconnaissance in July 1968 (CUCAP AVM 76) revealed a series of faint earthworks around a church (GA042-001002-) and graveyard. By January 1985 (ASGAP 211:37-42), the fields to E and S of the graveyard had been reclaimed and the earthworks survived only in the field immediately to N. These comprise a complex series of low earthen banks, trenches and cultivation ridges covering an area 160m E-W by 150m N-S. A number of small irregular fields, coeval with the ridges, are discernible. Three or four possible house foundations, rectangular in plan, are also visible. Higgins and McHugh (1990, 67) also noted 'two low crescentic structures' in this area tentatively classifying them as 'small site huts'. According to local tradition, these earthworks 'contain remains of the old village of Kilnamanagh' (ibid.). They also appear to be associated with a probable early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA042-001001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-001006 House - indeterminate date
  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.

• GA042-001007 House - indeterminate date
  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.

• GA042-001008 House - indeterminate date
  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.

• GA042-001009 House - indeterminate date
  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.

• GA042-001010 Hut site
  Description

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• GA042-001011 Hut site
  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.

• GA042-003 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

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Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having dormer attic, projecting gabled timber porch to front, and lean-to extensions to rear. Pitched thatched roof with shallow raised ridge and low rendered chimneystacks. Whitewashed battered walls with render plinth. Square-headed replacement timber windows with moulded render surrounds and limestone sills. Porch has heart ornament to valence at front, and metal roof, glazed upper parts to sides, and double-leaf glazed timber door. Double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gate to west leading to yard at rear, and garden to front bounded by hedge over rendered wall and having pedestrian gate with rubble limestone piers and ornate cast-iron gate.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Abbeytown.

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.

No address of the register names Abbeytown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Abbeytown · Baile na Mainistreach

Area

1,065,724 m² (106.57 ha, 263.35 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghpatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Donaghpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donaghpatrick electoral division: 584 people in 210 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvoher, Bunnasillagh, Carrowmore, Killamanagh, Lisdonagh, Mirehill, Ralusk

Placenames

Abbeytown 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.