Blean

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blean, from 37 m² to 94,251 m² (9.43 ha, 23.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Blean 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.

• 29 Nov 2021Refused

  for extension to existing shed, change of use of shed to a dwelling house and to install treatment plant with percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 43.6 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212230

• 31 Oct 2019Conditional

  for the following: (1) Permission to demolish the existing single storey porch extension to the front elevation of the existing dwelling house and replace it with a new porch structure. (2) Permission to construct a 2-Storey extension to the side elevation of the existing dwelling house. (3) Permission to replace the existing septic tank system with a new effluent treatment system and percolation area. (4) Retention of a new site entrance and driveway to existing dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works: 159.65 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 4.0 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191695

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  to replace the original roadside boundary wall/ditch with a new boundary wall including for the provision of a roadside set-back/layby. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 116 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191531

• 11 Apr 2019Refused

  for the following: (1) Permission to demolish the existing single storey extensions to the front and rear elevations of the existing dwelling house (2) Permission to construct a 2-Storey extension to the side elevation of the existing dwelling house with additional windows to the existing dwelling. (3) Permission to replace the existing septic tank system with a new effluent treatment system & percolation area. (4) Retention of a new site entrance and driveway to existing dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed work: Dwelling - 163.65 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 21 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19539

• 24 Aug 2018Refused

  of agriculture storage shed, rainwater storage tank, and hardcore area and all associated works. Gross floor space of work to be retained shed 115sqm, hardcore area 643sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 181200

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 Blean.

Recorded monuments

• GA084-026 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On the E face of a ridge in undulating pastureland. This subrectangular children's burial ground (8.9m NW-SE; 5.4m NE-SW) is defined by a low drystone wall. The only headstone visible is at W. Three yew trees are growing in the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 August 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_899 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Blean with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Blean · An Bhléan

Area

909,046 m² (90.9 ha, 224.63 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Athenry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Athenry electoral division: 5,765 people in 2,069 households; 67% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Backpark, Gloves Middle, Gloves West, Killascaul, Kingsland South, Rahard

Placenames

Blean 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.