# Blacksticks, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Longford, Co. Galway; in Irish Cagála. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 620,447 m² (62.04 ha, 153.32 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,745 m² (1.67 ha, 4.14 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonfert, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/clonfert.md - Barony: Longford - Electoral division: Kylemore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17962 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60577 - Centre: latitude 53.235563, longitude -8.113819 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blacksticks, from 1,541 m² to 149,365 m² (14.94 ha, 36.91 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1929281: 149,365 m² (14.94 ha, 36.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1929281.md - Parcel 1929272: 56,212 m² (5.62 ha, 13.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1929272.md - Parcel 1929280: 55,193 m² (5.52 ha, 13.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1929280.md - Parcel 1969347: 53,196 m² (5.32 ha, 13.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1969347.md - Parcel 1929277: 49,808 m² (4.98 ha, 12.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1929277.md - Parcel 1969338: 48,496 m² (4.85 ha, 11.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1969338.md - Parcel 1969344: 47,453 m² (4.75 ha, 11.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1969344.md - Parcel 1929276: 41,583 m² (4.16 ha, 10.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1929276.md - Parcel 1969345: 28,754 m² (2.88 ha, 7.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1969345.md - Parcel 1929275: 28,201 m² (2.82 ha, 6.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1929275.md - Parcel 1969342: 16,745 m² (1.67 ha, 4.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1969342.md - Parcel 1929278: 14,637 m² (1.46 ha, 3.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1929278.md - Parcel 1969343: 4,815 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1969343.md - Parcel 1969346: 4,712 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1969346.md - Parcel 1929273: 4,608 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1929273.md - Parcel 1929274: 4,571 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1929274.md - Parcel 1929279: 4,055 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1929279.md - Parcel 1969339: 3,930 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1969339.md - Parcel 5306031: 2,400 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5306031.md - Parcel 6032823: 2,400 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6032823.md - Parcel 1969341: 1,541 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1969341.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Blacksticks in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Blacksticks. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA100-182: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA100-182----. 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 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) - Post box, 1910–1920, Regional interest, registry number 30410014, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30410014. 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. ## 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 Blacksticks, 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, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1443, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1443.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/blacksticks.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/blacksticks.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/blacksticks.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Blacksticks 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) - Cloonshease (Daly): https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonshease-daly.md - Coolcarta East: https://everytownland.com/galway/coolcarta-east.md - Coolcarta West: https://everytownland.com/galway/coolcarta-west.md - Fynagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/fynagh.md - Lisbeg: https://everytownland.com/galway/lisbeg.md - Lispheasty: https://everytownland.com/galway/lispheasty.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/blacksticks - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/blacksticks