Coalpits

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coalpits, from 810 m² to 150,433 m² (15.04 ha, 37.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Coalpits 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.

• 16 Sept 2026N/a

  to upgrade the Creggs 2582 meter long walkway. The upgrade to consist of an overlay broken stone on existing road surface and the sealing of the completed surface with a bitumen bound material. A car parking area to hold 5 car spaces plus picnic table will be provided. Existing defective stone culverts along the route of the walkway will be replaced with drainage pipes. Existing roadside drains will also be improved

  Permission · Galway County Council, 26238

• 21 May 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage and install a waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 232.33 sqm(H), 59.85 sqm(G)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560631

• 28 Jul 2023Conditional

  for a 10 year planning permission for the development of a solar PV farm at a site in the townlands of Cuilnacappy, Park, Moneenroe & Gortnalavey, near Creggs village, Co. Galway. The solar farm will have an operational lifespan of 40 years & a maximum export capacity of 75MW of electricity. The development will comprise the installation of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames in rows, ancillary cabling & electrical infrastructure including approx. 18no. inverter station locations (with option for two stations at each location), ducting & underground cabling; provision of new internal access tracks; storage containers; perimeter fencing, pole mounted CCTV cameras; vehicular access via 2no. access points, one comprising an upgrade of an existing agricultural access directly to the L2316 & one via an upgraded existing private road which adjoins the L2316 adjacent to its junction with the R362; proposed new passing bay on this private road; 1no. further alternative vehicular access point at a new vehicular entrance to the L2316; & all associated site development & landscaping works, all on a site of approx. 107.4ha. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in relation to the project & will be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360875

• 5 May 2023N/a

  for a 10 year planning permission for the development of a solar PV farm at a site in the townlands of Cuilnacappy, Park, Moneenroe, and Gortnalavey, near Creggs village, Co. Galway. The solar farm will have an operational lifespan of 40 years and a maximum export capacity of 75MW of electricity. The development will comprise the installation of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames in rows, ancillary cabling and electrical infrastructure including approx. 18 no. inverter station locations (with option for two stations at each location), ducting and underground cabling; provision of new internal access tracks; storage containers; perimeter fencing, pole mounted CCTV cameras; vehicular access via 2 No. access points, one comprising an upgrade of an existing agricultural access directly to the L2316 and one via an upgraded existing private road which adjoins the L2316 adjacent to its junction with the R362; proposed new passing bay on this private road; 1 No. further alternative vehicular access point at a new vehicular entrance to the L2316; and all associated site development and landscaping works. All on a site of approx. 107.4ha

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360464

• 10 Jun 2022N/a

  to erect a dwelling house and domestic garage/storage shed and install a septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: house 245.62 sqm and garage 55.35 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22761

• 16 Jan 2019Conditional

  to construct a new bellmouth entrance on to public road to facilitate access to existing forestry plantation and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1943

• 15 Jun 2018Conditional

  to extend and reconstruct existing dwelling house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 164.18 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained 134.45 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18819

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 Coalpits.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coalpits.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Coalpits, about 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coalpits.

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 Coalpits with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Coalpits · Clais an Ghuail

Area

1,565,462 m² (156.55 ha, 386.83 acres)

Civil parish

Athleague, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Killeroran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,301 people lived in 512 households in the Killeroran electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cuilnacappy, Easterfield or Cornacask, Gorteenruckaun, Gortnalavey, Hollygrove, Mallyree, Moneenroe

Placenames

Coalpits 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.