# Back, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcloony, barony of Clonmacnowen, Co. Galway; in Irish An Bac. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 164,575 m² (16.46 ha, 40.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 303 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G1 Open Space / Recreation & Amenity, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcloony, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilcloony.md - Barony: Clonmacnowen - Electoral division: Ballinasloe Urban, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 7,361 people lived in 2,616 households in the Ballinasloe Urban electoral division. 55% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% 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/17575 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60173 - Centre: latitude 53.332513, longitude -8.214782 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Back, from 108 m² to 117,983 m² (11.8 ha, 29.15 acres); 3 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2026527: 117,983 m² (11.8 ha, 29.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026527.md - Parcel 2026526: 1,285 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026526.md - Parcel 2074119: 347 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2074119.md - Parcel 2074120: 259 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2074120.md - Parcel 4820439: 138 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4820439.md - Parcel 4934630: 108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934630.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G1 Open Space / Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park): Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County; 7 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.galway.ie/en/consultation/adopted-ballinasloe-local-area-plan-2022-2028 - N1.5 Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses): Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.galway.ie/en/consultation/adopted-ballinasloe-local-area-plan-2022-2028 - M2 Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area): Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.galway.ie/en/consultation/adopted-ballinasloe-local-area-plan-2022-2028 - M1 Commercial / Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site): Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.galway.ie/en/consultation/adopted-ballinasloe-local-area-plan-2022-2028 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Back in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA, site code 004097, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004097 - Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA, site code 000222, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/000222 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA088-038: House - 18th/19th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA088-038----. 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) - House, 1860–1865, Regional interest, registry number 30333027, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30333027. Detached three-bay three-storey former house, built c.1864, having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed extension containing shopfronts to front elevation, with multiple-bay three-storey addition with pitched slate roof and single-storey flat-roofed extensions to rear elevation. Now in use as café and estate agent's office. Hipped slate roof with wide bracketed eaves, rendered chimneystacks to ends of roof, stack to south projecting slightly, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with cut limestone quoins to upper floors, with render sill courses, and rock-faced rusticated walls with similar quoins to ground floor of south elevation. Segmental-headed window openings to first floor set in square-headed decorative render surrounds, with painted sills over plinth blocks and having moulded cornices to end bays. Square-headed window openings to top floor with render surrounds having decorative brackets. All front windows have two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear elevation, and one camber-headed opening to south elevation, with replacement uPVC windows. ## 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 Back, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1349, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1349.zip (ZIP). - 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/back.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/back.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/back.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Back 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) - Cleaghgarve: https://everytownland.com/galway/cleaghgarve.md - Creagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/creagh.md - Townparks: https://everytownland.com/galway/townparks-64103.md - Townparks: https://everytownland.com/galway/townparks-64101.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/back - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/back