# Alloon Upper, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballymacward, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Alúin Uachtarach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,536,683 m² (153.67 ha, 379.72 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,548 m² (0.65 ha, 1.62 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballymacward, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballymacward.md
- Barony: Tiaquin
- Electoral division: Ballymacward, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 316 people lived in 113 households in the Ballymacward electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17706
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60062
- Centre: latitude 53.388361, longitude -8.490281 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Alloon Upper, from 139 m² to 155,828 m² (15.58 ha, 38.51 acres); 41 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1952700: 155,828 m² (15.58 ha, 38.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952700.md
- Parcel 4753488: 136,753 m² (13.68 ha, 33.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4753488.md
- Parcel 5126331: 121,827 m² (12.18 ha, 30.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5126331.md
- Parcel 1952685: 114,069 m² (11.41 ha, 28.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952685.md
- Parcel 2112751: 109,406 m² (10.94 ha, 27.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112751.md
- Parcel 4643554: 86,843 m² (8.68 ha, 21.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4643554.md
- Parcel 1998492: 74,849 m² (7.48 ha, 18.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998492.md
- Parcel 1998601: 68,531 m² (6.85 ha, 16.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998601.md
- Parcel 1952688: 57,509 m² (5.75 ha, 14.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952688.md
- Parcel 1952790: 49,945 m² (4.99 ha, 12.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952790.md
- Parcel 1952692: 37,589 m² (3.76 ha, 9.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952692.md
- Parcel 2022266: 34,265 m² (3.43 ha, 8.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2022266.md
- Parcel 1998481: 27,256 m² (2.73 ha, 6.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998481.md
- Parcel 2112754: 24,076 m² (2.41 ha, 5.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112754.md
- Parcel 1952694: 22,222 m² (2.22 ha, 5.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952694.md
- Parcel 1952695: 22,201 m² (2.22 ha, 5.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952695.md
- Parcel 1998489: 21,068 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998489.md
- Parcel 1998493: 20,651 m² (2.07 ha, 5.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998493.md
- Parcel 1952776: 20,561 m² (2.06 ha, 5.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952776.md
- Parcel 1952781: 19,880 m² (1.99 ha, 4.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952781.md
- Parcel 1952784: 19,547 m² (1.95 ha, 4.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952784.md
- Parcel 1952691: 16,315 m² (1.63 ha, 4.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952691.md
- Parcel 1998482: 14,975 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998482.md
- Parcel 1998499: 13,535 m² (1.35 ha, 3.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998499.md
- Parcel 1998480: 11,513 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998480.md
- Parcel 1998598: 11,271 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998598.md
- Parcel 1952697: 11,148 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952697.md
- Parcel 1998487: 10,328 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998487.md
- Parcel 1952780: 10,252 m² (1.03 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952780.md
- Parcel 1998491: 10,193 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998491.md
- Parcel 1952777: 9,561 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952777.md
- Parcel 1952782: 9,541 m² (0.95 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952782.md
- Parcel 1998504: 9,491 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998504.md
- Parcel 1952792: 9,266 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952792.md
- Parcel 1998488: 8,309 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998488.md
- Parcel 1998500: 8,197 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998500.md
- Parcel 1998490: 8,155 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998490.md
- Parcel 1998501: 7,045 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998501.md
- Parcel 1952789: 6,844 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952789.md
- Parcel 1952783: 6,252 m² (0.63 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952783.md
- Parcel 1952779: 6,188 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952779.md
- Parcel 1952699: 6,137 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952699.md
- Parcel 1952686: 6,035 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952686.md
- Parcel 4462305: 5,955 m² (0.6 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462305.md
- Parcel 1998486: 5,829 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998486.md
- Parcel 1998600: 4,602 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998600.md
- Parcel 1998497: 4,497 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998497.md
- Parcel 1998485: 4,365 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998485.md
- Parcel 1998495: 4,098 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998495.md
- Parcel 1952778: 3,923 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952778.md
- Parcel 1998496: 3,902 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998496.md
- Parcel 5932106: 3,739 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5932106.md
- Parcel 1952787: 3,366 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952787.md
- Parcel 5932128: 3,266 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5932128.md
- Parcel 1952696: 3,081 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952696.md
- Parcel 1952788: 2,494 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952788.md
- Parcel 1952684: 2,332 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952684.md
- Parcel 1998484: 2,280 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998484.md
- Parcel 1998483: 2,182 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998483.md
- Parcel 4646393: 1,891 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4646393.md
- Parcel 1998503: 1,877 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998503.md
- Parcel 1952689: 1,796 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952689.md
- Parcel 1998498: 1,628 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998498.md
- Parcel 1952687: 1,539 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952687.md
- Parcel 1952785: 1,470 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952785.md
- Parcel 1998502: 1,386 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998502.md
- Parcel 4456917: 1,299 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456917.md
- Parcel 5059087: 1,240 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5059087.md
- Parcel 1952786: 1,191 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952786.md
- Parcel 3549933: 1,184 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3549933.md
- Parcel 1952791: 1,055 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952791.md
- Parcel 5059090: 946 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5059090.md
- Parcel 1998494: 837 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998494.md
- Parcel 1952683: 645 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1952683.md
- Parcel 5954816: 445 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5954816.md
- Parcel 1998597: 435 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1998597.md
- Parcel 5932125: 202 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5932125.md
- Parcel 5932136: 139 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5932136.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Alloon Upper in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

6 applications, newest first.

- 12 May 2025, Galway County Council 25104: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to demolish existing porch and extend and disconnect existing waste water treatment system, renovate and extend existing private dwelling house and install waste water treatment system, renovate and extend existing private garage store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 87.02 sqm (extension), 51.55 sqm (G). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/25104/0
- 21 Nov 2022, Galway County Council 221181: Conditional. Permission. to construct toilet facilities to include all associated site works for catholic church. Gross floor space of proposed works: 9.30 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/221181/0
- 10 Feb 2020, Galway County Council 20153: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for a dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment, along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 249.50 sqm, Garage - 73.20 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20153/0
- 20 Jan 2020, Galway County Council 2046: Conditional. Permission. to change existing carparking facilities at the front of the school to include 1. Separate designated drop off and pick up areas for school buses and cars, 2. Visitor and teacher parking, 3. Construction of a wall to separate drop off and pick up area from the main road, 4. Construction of a new front boundary wall, 5. Construction of a new footpath, lighting and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1015 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2046/0
- 5 Apr 2019, Galway County Council 19509: Unconditional. Extension of duration. to extend existing car parking area to include all associated signs and works (Gross floor space 272.25sqm). Previous Planning Ref: 13/780. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19509/0
- 13 Jun 2017, Galway County Council 17856: Conditional. Permission. to construct a canopy to provide shelter above classroom entrance/exits, and to erect the school name on the external west-facing wall (gross floor space 138sqm). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17856/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Alloon Upper.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA073-002: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA073-002----. In undulating grassland. Circular rath (D 39m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. A gap (Wth 3m) at S could be original. 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
- GA073-003: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA073-003----. In gently rolling grassland just N of the Clonbrock River. Almost circular rath (D 35m), in fair condition, defined by a bank. 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
- GA073-004: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA073-004----. 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.

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Handball alley, 1940–1960, Regional interest, registry number 30407307, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA&regno=30407307. Freestanding mass-concrete handball alley, built c.1950, now disused. Rectangular plan with higher playing wall to north end, and sloping side walls. Square-headed entrance opening to south, partially blocked up. Remains of iron posts to top of rear and side walls. Set back from road gathering space to front and fieldstone wall to adjacent field.
- Catholic Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, church/chapel, 1860–1890, Regional interest, registry number 30407309, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA&regno=30407309. Detached limestone-built cruciform-plan Gothic-Revival Roman Catholic church, erected c.1875, having eight-bay nave, three-stage bell tower recessed to re-entrant corner of nave and east transept, gabled porch to west transept, and twentieth-century flat-roof sacristy to south-west re-entrant corner of nave and west transept, gabled porch to west elevation of nave. Altar at west end of nave. Pitched natural slate roof with stone copings and stone cross finials to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Crenellated parapet to tower, having plain gargoyles to corners, and pyramidal spire. Squared random rubble stone walls with sloped stone plinth course, and having moulded string course between upper stages of tower. Pointed-arch windows with stained glass, five-light to south gable, three-light to transept gables and two-light elsewhere, having interlace with quatrefoils to upper parts, chamfered surrounds and sills, and hood-mouldings. Slightly projecting gabled centrepiece to north gable with twin pointed-arch doorways having roll-moulded surrounds springing from colonettes with plinths and set into pointed-arch recess with similar surround, with replacement double-leaf timber battened doors. Decorative quatrefoil detail above doorways. Blocked-up round-headed windows flanking upper part of entrance feature. Pointed-arch doorway to tower east face having moulded surround and timber door. Tower has double-light lancet window to north face having label-moulding, second stage has quatrefoil lights and top stage has pair of pointed-arch louvered lights. Interior has pointed arches to transepts with ashlar limestone surrounds, marble altar furniture, carved timber Stations of The Cross, arch-braced timber A-framed truss roof on corbals and with hanging posts. Set back from road with stone piers and decorative metal gates to north, south and east and rendered boundary wall with rubble coping.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Alloon Upper, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Alloon Upper.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/alloon-upper.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/alloon-upper.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/alloon-upper.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Alloon Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Alloon Lower: https://everytownland.com/galway/alloon-lower.md
- Alloonbaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/alloonbaun.md
- Ballymacward: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballymacward.md
- Esker: https://everytownland.com/galway/esker-61954.md
- Garrymore: https://everytownland.com/galway/garrymore-62131.md
- Hampstead: https://everytownland.com/galway/hampstead.md
- Lisloughlin: https://everytownland.com/galway/lisloughlin.md
- Mountventure: https://everytownland.com/galway/mountventure.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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