# Blackrock, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilthomas, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish An Charraig Dhubh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 509,440 m² (50.94 ha, 125.89 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,438 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilthomas, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilthomas.md
- Barony: Loughrea
- Electoral division: Castleboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 571 people lived in 204 households in the Castleboy electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19741
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60576
- Centre: latitude 53.118415, longitude -8.741372 (WGS 84)

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

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackrock, from 1,398 m² to 200,040 m² (20 ha, 49.43 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1939081: 200,040 m² (20 ha, 49.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1939081.md
- Parcel 4849656: 72,966 m² (7.3 ha, 18.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4849656.md
- Parcel 2013163: 58,707 m² (5.87 ha, 14.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2013163.md
- Parcel 2013168: 37,843 m² (3.78 ha, 9.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2013168.md
- Parcel 2013165: 37,740 m² (3.77 ha, 9.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2013165.md
- Parcel 1939080: 24,857 m² (2.49 ha, 6.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1939080.md
- Parcel 1939077: 17,449 m² (1.74 ha, 4.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1939077.md
- Parcel 2013166: 11,191 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2013166.md
- Parcel 2069266: 4,569 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2069266.md
- Parcel 2112345: 4,218 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112345.md
- Parcel 2747727: 3,980 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2747727.md
- Parcel 2013161: 3,607 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2013161.md
- Parcel 2013164: 3,467 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2013164.md
- Parcel 1939083: 3,410 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1939083.md
- Parcel 2022042: 2,876 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2022042.md
- Parcel 4678565: 2,668 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4678565.md
- Parcel 2013159: 2,608 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2013159.md
- Parcel 2747681: 2,431 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2747681.md
- Parcel 2069267: 2,353 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2069267.md
- Parcel 2013160: 2,325 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2013160.md
- Parcel 5542806: 2,104 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5542806.md
- Parcel 2013167: 2,069 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2013167.md
- Parcel 2013162: 2,031 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2013162.md
- Parcel 1939082: 2,012 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1939082.md
- Parcel 1939078: 2,002 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1939078.md
- Parcel 1939079: 1,398 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1939079.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Blackrock 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.

- 20 Jul 2026, Galway County Council 2661225: Conditional. Retention. of alterations to existing dwelling house previously permitted under planning Ref 07/4696. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661225/0
- 12 Apr 2022, Galway County Council 2260337: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a front porch, side, rear and first floor extension to an existing dwelling including elevation alterations. Permission is also sought for the conversion & integration of the existing attached garage into the proposed development & dwelling along with all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 122 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260337/0
- 8 Dec 2020, Galway County Council 201863: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. to retain 1] revised dwelling house on revised site boundaries to that previously granted under Planning Reference 11/898. 2] A domestic storage shed and 3] To upgrade existing waste water treatment system. Gross floor of woks to be retained: 105.12 msq & 27.61 msq.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201863/0
- 12 Nov 2020, Galway County Council 201701: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for the retention and completion of a domestic garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 54.2 msq. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201701/0
- 31 Oct 2019, Galway County Council 191706: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of a dwelling house, treatment unit and all associated services on revised site boundaries previously granted under 01/3937. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 137.2 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191706/0
- 20 Sept 2018, Galway County Council 181332: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for the retention of a dwelling house, septic tank and all associated services on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained, 120.8sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181332/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Peterswell Turlough SAC, site code 000318, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000318
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Peterswell Turlough, site code 000318

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blackrock.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blackrock.

## 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 Blackrock, 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.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_873, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_873.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/blackrock.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/blackrock.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/blackrock.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

- Blackrock, Peterswell: 7 sales, https://everytownland.com/galway/blackrock-peterswell.md

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

- Cuilmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/cuilmore-61627.md
- Gortaloman: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortaloman.md
- Lecknabegga: https://everytownland.com/galway/lecknabegga.md
- Limepark South: https://everytownland.com/galway/limepark-south.md
- Lissadoill: https://everytownland.com/galway/lissadoill.md
- Turloughnacloghdoo Commons: https://everytownland.com/galway/turloughnacloghdoo-commons.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.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/blackrock
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