Course

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Course, from 68 m² to 96,100 m² (9.61 ha, 23.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 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 Course 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.

• 25 Aug 2025Conditional

  to extend and roof existing manure pit. Construct storage shed to include all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25213

• 22 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct: 1. extension to existing slatted shed to accommodate loose housing area and manure pit, 2. farm machinery storage shed, 3. Slatted slurry storage tank to include concrete aprons and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1094.30 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25188

• 12 Jul 2023Conditional

  to construct hay/straw/machinery storage shed & to extend & roof existing collection/exercise yard to include concrete apron & all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23281

• 2 Dec 2022Conditional

  of dwelling house, septic tanks and percolation area and domestic shed on revised site boundaries from that previously granted under planning ref. old14453. Gross floor space of works to be retained 98.42 sqm (dwelling) & 15.5 sqm (shed)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221211

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, with wastewater treatment plant percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 289.44 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211737

• 11 Mar 2019Conditional

  to construct a farm storage shed to include all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Shed = 565.34 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19337

• 24 Feb 2017Conditional

  to construct a new entrance, farm access road and machinery storage shed. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 166.75 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17257

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 Course.

Recorded monuments

• GA060-059 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved oval rath (E-W 61m, N-S 51m) defined by an inner scarp and external fosse. Either of two gaps at ESE and NW (each Wth 3m) could be original. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Course · An Cúrsa

Area

1,127,039 m² (112.7 ha, 278.5 acres)

Civil parish

Killosolan, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Castleblakeney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleblakeney electoral division: 551 people in 197 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castleblakeney, Crannagh, Gallagh, Gortavally, Greenville, Kinclare, Lisnagree, Rathbaun

Placenames

Course 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.