Cloondahamper (Blake)
Townland in the civil parish of Killererin, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Galway; in Irish Cluain Dá Thiompar (Blake)
- Area
- 190.5 ha
- 471 acres
- Land parcels
- 102
- registered freehold, median 4,318 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloondahamper (Blake), from 90 m² to 273,722 m² (27.37 ha, 67.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloondahamper (Blake) 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Feb 2026Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area, full planning permission also sought for the placement of a mobile home for the duration of the construction period on the site and all ancillary site works. This application is accompanied with an Appropriate Assessment and a Nature Impact Statement (NIS)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660207
5 Dec 2025N/a
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area, full planning permission for the placement of a mobile home for the duration of the construction period on the site and all ancillary site works . This application is accompanied with an Appropriate Assessment and a Nature Impact Statement (NIS)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561793
3 Sept 2023Refused
for the construction of a 110m2 floor area shed for the storage & maintenance of the applicants vintage machinery & all associated site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 2361043
29 Aug 2023Conditional
to upgrade the existing 220k overhead line between the existing Cashla 220kV Substation in the townland of Barrettspark, Co. Galway, & Tower 138 in the townland of Oughtagh, Co. Galway. The proposed development will consist of refurbishment works to the existing overhead Line (approximately 49 km long & comprising of 138no. steel angle masts). The refurbishment works to towers will consist of: installation of replacement parts on the towers including insulators, shield wire, vibration dampeners, arching horns & anti-climbing guards; associated site development works, including temporary work areas, foundation refurbishment /strengthening & recapping/clearing of shear blocks; clearance of shear block bases; & ancillary works; ancillary site preparation works, site clearance & levelling at the 6no. temporary construction compounds & associated temporary works to existing tracks & new temporary access routes to provide internal access routes to each tower with all associated works required to facilitate the development. No works will be undertaken to the overhead line (conductor). The proposed development will also consist of upgrades to the Cashla 220kV substation that will consist of: the decommissioning and removal of line bay equipment within the substation boundary; construction of a new adjacent offline like for like line bay & associated bay protection cabinets within the substation boundary; & new overhead lines connection between the end mast & the new line bay. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning authority with the application
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23355
21 Dec 2020Conditional
of the existing dwelling house foundation which was constructed following the grant of planning permissions reference numbers 04/5539 and 10/735. Full planning permission sought to complete the construction of the dwelling house. Full planning permission also sought to create a new exit/entry gate, erect a new domestic garage/fuel store, and install a septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 226 sqm, Garage 60 sqm
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201989
11 Oct 2019Conditional
to outline planning permission reference number 16/998 to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 203 sqm (House), 32 sqm (Garage)
Permission consequent, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191585
3 May 2019Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling - 162 sqm, Garage - 32 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19660
1 Nov 2018Conditional
to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, garage and a treatment plant. Gross floor space of proposed works: 303 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181559
19 Oct 2018Conditional
to reconstruct and extend existing dwelling house and full planning permission to construct detached domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (dwelling) 134 sqm, (garage) 50 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181495
27 Nov 2017Conditional
to construct serviced dwellinghouse and domestic garage/store (gross floor space dwellinghouse 200.5sqm; garage 60sqm)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171694
9 Oct 2017Conditional
to outline planning permission reference number 14/829 to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 203sqm, Garage 47sqm.
Permission consequent, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171464
4 Jul 2017Conditional
to retain the existing entrance/exit gate as its current location from its location shown in previous planning permissions reference numbers 08/1817, 08/2661 and 13/432
Permission · Galway County Council, 17981
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloondahamper (Blake).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloondahamper (Blake).
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloondahamper (Blake).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloondahamper (Blake) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cloondahamper (Blake) · Cluain Dá Thiompar (Blake)
- Area
- 1,904,823 m² (190.48 ha, 470.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killererin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballymoe
- Electoral division
- Hillsbrook, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Hillsbrook electoral division: 693 people in 236 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonascragh, Cloonboo Beg, Cloondahamper (Brown), Cooloo, Derrybaun, Ginnaun, Levally East, Lisnaminaun, Stowelodge, Tigreenaun
- Placenames
- Cloondahamper (Blake) 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.