Angliham or Gortacallow
Townland in the civil parish of Oranmore, barony of Galway, Co. Galway; in Irish Gort an Chalaidh
- Area
- 109.7 ha
- 271 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 5,047 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Angliham or Gortacallow, from 6 m² to 113,860 m² (11.39 ha, 28.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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
- P1Agriculture
Galway City Development Plan 2023 - 2029, Galway · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Agriculture and High Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Galway City Development Plan 2023 - 2029, Galway · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Feb 2025Conditional
for the construction of new dwelling and garage with wastewater treatment system and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 240.40 sqm(house), 39.60 sqm(garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560176
23 Aug 2023Refused
for the construction of new dwelling & garage with wastewater treatment system & associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360995
10 Dec 2019Conditional
Planning consequent on the grant outline permission (outline permission ref. No: 17/387) for the development which will consist of the construction of a new two storey dwelling and garage with wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Galway City Council, 19344
2 Oct 2019Conditional
for an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling, installation of a new effluent treatment system and permission for a new entrance. Gross floor space of proposed works: 41 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191517
16 Jul 2019Conditional
to construct a 4 bay single slatted shed with a cattle enclosure and cattle crush. Gross floor space of proposed works: 229.20 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 191081
3 May 2019N/a
for an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling, installation of a new effluent treatment system and permission for a new entrance. Gross floor space of proposed works: 41 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19669
22 Dec 2017Conditional
Permission for Outline Permission for development which will consist of installation of a single private residential house, a car garage and associated ancillary services
Outline permission, 1 home · Galway City Council, 17387
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
- Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Angliham or Gortacallow.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Angliham or Gortacallow.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Angliham or Gortacallow.
- 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 Angliham or Gortacallow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Angliham or Gortacallow · Gort an Chalaidh
- Area
- 1,097,387 m² (109.74 ha, 271.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oranmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Galway
- Electoral division
- Carrowbrowne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrowbrowne electoral division: 1,040 people in 325 households; 86% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coarsefield, Curraghmore, Kilroghter
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Angliham or Gortacallow 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.