Blacksticks

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blacksticks, from 1,541 m² to 149,365 m² (14.94 ha, 36.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Blacksticks 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Blacksticks in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Blacksticks.

Recorded monuments

• GA100-182 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In low-lying marshy grassland. This roughly subcircular ring-barrow (18m E-W; 16.8m N-S) is defined by a low, grassed-over circular mound (diam. 8m; max. H 0.4m at E; D 0.2-0.4m) surrounded a shollow fosse (max. Wth 5.3m at W; D 0.1-0.4m). There is no trace of an entrance gap. A field drain (Wth 0.9m; D 0.1-0.15m) cuts the monument from NE to SW. This monument was brought to our attention by Dr C. Cunniffe. The following image has been uploaded: GA100-182-_02.jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 July 2023

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c.1915, with royal cipher of George V, and raised crown motif. Raised 'Post Office' lettering to letter flap and foundry mark 'W.T. Allen & Co. London' to frame. Set into poured concrete walling at rural road junction.

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

At the centre of the townland of Blacksticks, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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_1443 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Blacksticks with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Blacksticks · Cagála

Area

620,447 m² (62.04 ha, 153.32 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Kylemore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

146 people lived in 59 households in the Kylemore electoral division. 98% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonshease (Daly), Coolcarta East, Coolcarta West, Fynagh, Lisbeg, Lispheasty

Placenames

Blacksticks 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.