Dawros Upper

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dawros Upper, from 363 m² to 99,052 m² (9.91 ha, 24.48 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 Dawros Upper 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.

• 17 Jun 2025Conditional

  for a new dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, treatment system/septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 248.00 sqm(H), 60.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560776

• 20 May 2025Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, treatment system/septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 280.00 sqm(H), 66 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560621

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  sought to retain garage and minor elevation changes to existing dwelling and associate services. Gross floor area of works to be retained: 261.60 sqm(H), 78.55 sqm(H)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 25114

• 8 Aug 2024N/a

  of dwelling house and garage as constructed and all associated site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 261.6 sqm (H), 47 sqm (G)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 24237

• 29 Nov 2018Conditional

  to construct extension to existing dwelling house along with upgrading existing septic tank to wastewater treatment system and percolation area and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 37.80sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181706

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 Dawros Upper.

Recorded monuments

• GA017-166 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland. The outline of a subcircular enclosure (c. 40m NE-SW; c. 36m NW-SE) is visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dated March 2016. It is clipped by a NNE-SSW running drain at NW. The drain feeds into a stream to the SSW. Identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The following image has been uploaded: GA017- 166----_01.jpg Google Earth image (March 2016) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 July 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Dawros Upper.

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

Name

Dawros Upper · Damhros Uachtarach

Area

753,555 m² (75.36 ha, 186.21 acres)

Civil parish

Addergoole, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Milltown electoral division: 704 people in 266 households; 86% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Banagher, Carrowbaun, Carrowreagh, Dawros Lower, Knockballyvishteal, Milltown, Russelstown

Placenames

Dawros Upper 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.