Cottage

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cottage, from 127 m² to 57,388 m² (5.74 ha, 14.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Cottage 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 May 2026N/a

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system & percolation area & for all ancillary services & site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660866

• 29 May 2020Conditional

  Permission for new dwellinghouse shed / store, septic tank, sewage treatment system and ancillary works & site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 285.60 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20669

• 31 Oct 2019Refused

  for new dwelling house, shed / store, septic tank and all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 285.60 sqm, Shed/Store - 55 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191701

• 18 Oct 2019Conditional

  for the development of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor area of the proposed works (House) 215.7m2 (Garage) 50m2. Gross floor space of proposed works: 265.7 sqm (Dwelling - 215.7 sqm, Garage - 50 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191617

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 Cottage.

Recorded monuments

• GA095-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a prominent rise in undulating grassland, the remains consist of a well-preserved bivallate ringfort (internal diam. c. 48m; overall diam. c. 95m) with an entrance at the NE. The inner bank averages 2m in height above the fort interior and the base of the inner fosse is c. 6m below the top of this bank. The fosse, in places, is a maximum of 9m wide across the top and 2.3m at the base. In comparison the outer bank is subdivided along its circumference by a ‘hollow way’ or shallow, ditch-like depression on its summit. The outer fosse measures c. 4m in upper width and 1.5m at the base: it is just 0.7m below the external ground level. The entrance is 2.6m wide and the causeway across the fosse is 4.4m wide. Excavations in 1948 and 1949 identified a two-phase bivallate ringfort of the Early History period. Approximately one quarter of the site was excavated, comprising the south-western quadrant and the entrance area. In Phase 1 the fort was univallate with an internal diameter of c. 76m. The first phase appears to have been short for soon after the beginning of the occupation of the site there was a dramatic change to the morphology of the fort. A very deep fosse was dug inside the existing defences and the material from this was piled up along its inner edge to form the inner large earthen bank. This reduced the internal diameter to its current extent: this corresponds with Phase 2. No evidence for internal structures were recorded. Well-preserved dumps of animal bone and sea-shells were discovered throughout the excavated areas and a variety of crafts were represented in the artefactual assemblage. Radiocarbon determinations indicated an occupation of the site from the 4th or 5th century AD to at least the 9th century. According to local tradition, there is a souterrain (GA095-009001-) in the interior, immediately to the SW of the entrance though no visible surface trace of it survives. (Comber 2002) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 29 May 2014

• GA095-009001 Souterrain
  Description

  According to local tradition, there is a souterrain (GA095-009001-) in the interior of rath (GA095-009----), immediately to the SW of the entrance. No visible surface trace of it survives nor was any trace found in the course of the excavations undertaken in the SE quadrant and entrance area in 1948-9. The location indicated by the ITM coordinates for this record must only be considered as approximate. (Comber 2002) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 29 May 2014

• GA095-175001 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA095-175002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA095-175003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_573 (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 Cottage with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cottage · Cotáiste

Area

668,389 m² (66.84 ha, 165.16 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynacourty, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Ballynacourty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynacourty electoral division: 1,233 people in 428 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamanagh West, Derry, Garraun Lower, Garraun Upper, Kilcaimin, Seafield

Placenames

Cottage 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.