Derryglassaun

212 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryglassaun, from 42 m² to 632,723 m² (63.27 ha, 156.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 61 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 Derryglassaun 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.

• 7 Aug 2026N/a

  for; 1. conversion of the existing detached garage into a 1no. single-occupancy communal dwelling unit. Works include internal alterations to provide living, dining, and bathroom facilities for persons with intellectual or physical disabilities, along with modifications to external elevations and all associated site works. The proposed unit will have a gross floor area of 49 sqm and will be located to the north-west side of the existing main residential care unit. 2. Retention Permission for an already installed wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter, including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661368

• 5 Jun 2026N/a

  for (i) conversion of the existing detached garage into a 1no. single-occupancy communal dwelling unit. Works include internal alterations to provide living, dining, and bathroom facilities for persons with intellectual or physical disabilities, along with modifications to external elevations and all associated site works. The proposed unit will have a gross floor area of 49 sqm and will be located to the north-west side of the existing main residential care unit. (ii) Retention Permission for an already installed wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter, including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660899

• 6 May 2026N/a

  of slight alterations to dwelling, alterations to domestic garage to that granted under planning reference number 001434 and planning retention of turf and timber storage shed

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2660688

• 9 Feb 2026N/a

  for 1. construction of a new treatment system and percolation area. 2. Retention of existing garage, porch and office. 3. Retention of internal and external alterations on the ground floor and first floor. 4. Relocation of the existing entrance to those shown on original planning reference no 45211 and all associated site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2660188

• 30 Jul 2025Conditional

  for two sheds, one being a fuel store and the other being a domestic shed

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561049

• 25 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and a garage with treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 295.60 sqm(H), 49.90 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561019

• 5 Mar 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 259 sqm (house) & 50 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460234

• 21 Feb 2024Refused

  and permission for amendments to the site layout plan previously granted under GCC Ref: 962618 and 45211 to include a second entrance/exit onto the public road

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2467

• 30 Aug 2022Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 236.94 sq m

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260872

• 12 Aug 2022Conditional

  for: A) the change of use of the existing car garage to use as a one bedspace residence for persons with an intellectual or physical disability, including modifications to the existing front (east) and side (south) elevations, and B) retention permission for the additional hard standing area provided for parking, and all site works associated with the above mentioned development.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22968

• 23 Jun 2022Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage with wastewater treatment plant polishing filter and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 178.48 sqm (house)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22799

• 11 May 2022Conditional

  for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works.Gross floor space of proposed works 327.30sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260464

• 21 Jan 2022Conditional

  for development comprising of; (a) Retention of 2no. windows at first floor level to the south (side) and north (side) elevation of the existing dwelling. (b) Retention of the bay window at ground floor level, balcony, and associated patio doors at first floor level to the west (rear) elevation of the existing dwelling. (c) Retention of the 24.5 sqm extension to the existing domestic garage and the retention of the as built domestic garage as located on the north-western boundary of the site. (d) Retention of the existing septic tank and percolation area as located to the south-west end of the site.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2239

• 19 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a five bay multi-purpose farm store. Gross floor space of proposed works: 360 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 212165

• 24 Feb 2020Conditional

  of domestic garage / fuel store and minor alterations to dwelling house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 32.39 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20232

• 25 Jun 2019Conditional

  to 1) Demolish existing derelict house and outbuildings. 2) Erect a dwelling house, detached domestic garage with septic tank. 3) All associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 242 sqm, Garage - 45.59 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19957

• 6 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct a six bay double sheep shed on their lands. Gross floor space of proposed works 538.5 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18249

• 1 Feb 2018Conditional

  for a) installation of a temporary mobile home with connection to previously permitted treatment system and associated site services (Ref. Nos. 17/1330 and 16/34). Gross floor space of proposed works 39.78 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1888

• 7 Sept 2017Conditional

  for (a) Change of house and garage plan and position of same on site from previously permitted under plan. Ref. no. 16/34 with all associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 199sqm, Garage 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171330

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. (Gross floor space of proposed works: House 199 sqm, Garage 30 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17480

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 233 sqm., (house) 30 sqm., (garage).

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17481

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 Derryglassaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA059-028 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On W-facing slope of a hill in grassland. Circular rath (D 49m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank survive from SW through N to NE; elsewhere a road encircles the monument. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 2.9m) at N. The interior rises towards the centre and there is an oval hollow (NW-SE 6m, NE-SW 4.2m) in N sector. A probable souterrain (GA059-028001-) is associated. (Claffey 1983, 151-2) 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

• GA059-028001 Souterrain
  Description

  Associated with a ringfort (GA059-028----). Claffey (1983, 151) notes that the oval hollow (NW-SE 6m) in N half 'may be a collapsed souterrain'. According to local tradition, there is a 'cave' within this ringfort, the entrance to which was in another 'hollow' outside the 'fort' to N: not located. A local man remembered his father going into it. 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

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Hipped reed thatched roof with raised scolloped ridge, and rendered rebuilt chimneystack. Lime rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, with tooled limestone sills. Square-headed timber sheeted entrance door. Set perpendicular to road with rendered boundary wall and decorative metal gate.

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Derryglassaun · Doire an Ghlasáin

Area

3,537,845 m² (353.78 ha, 874.22 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Derryglassaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derryglassaun electoral division: 976 people in 332 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghnagrosheen, Ballinrooaun, Ballynamona, Cloonmweelaun, Colmanstown, Gilkagh, Pollnabrone, Skehanagh, Windfield Upper

Placenames

Derryglassaun 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.