Dunblaney

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunblaney, from 46 m² to 157,813 m² (15.78 ha, 39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Dunblaney 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.

• 2 Dec 2025Conditional

  to construct an agricultural grain store and all associated works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561773

• 4 Feb 2022Conditional

  to construct a two storey two-bedroom extension (189sqm) to an existing one-bedroom dwelling house (110sqm) and proprietary waste water treatment system /septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 189 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22124

• 5 Oct 2020N/a

  of development consisting of; the extraction, processing and sale of sand and gravel followed by restoration / rehabilitation of the land to agricultural use by the replacement of soils. the application provides for the construction of a single track site access road from the proposed extraction area to the Shanvally to Lavally road, the L2222 and the installation of a wheel cleaner. The proposed extraction area is c.1.6ha within a total application area of 2.18ha.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201447

• 1 Nov 2019N/a

  for development consisting of: The extraction, processing and sale of sand and gravel followed by restoration/rehabilitation of the land to agricultural use by the replacement of soils. The proposed extraction area is c. 4ha within the application area of 5.5ha

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191716

• 10 Jan 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a new wastewater treatment system to serve existing dwelling house and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 179

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumbulcaun Bog 000263

Recorded monuments

• GA030-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in otherwise level reclaimed grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m). Neary (1914, 115, no. 103) described it as a 'circular earthen for' enclosed by two banks and a fosse; know locally as 'Dunblayney Fort'. Apart from a faint rise, no visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA030-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the summit of a hillock in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 33m, N-S 31m) defined by a degraded bank visible intermittently from E to S and from W to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A ringfort (GA030-059----) lies c. 180m to NW. (Neary 1914, 115, no. 103) 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

• GA030-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in grassland on E side of Lough Agar, a dried-up lake. Known locally as 'Lake Fort' (Neary 1914, 115, no. 192), this well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 40m, N-S 38.5m) is defined by two earthen banks revetted with stone and an intervening fosse. There is a well-defined entrance at SSE and a souterrain (GA030-057001-) in the interior. 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

• GA030-057001 Souterrain
  Description

  In S half of a ringfort (GA030-057----). Neary (1914, 115, no. 102) records that 'the garth ... contains souterrain'. What is visible is an Z-shaped flat-bottomed hollow (L 19.6m, Wth 2.2m) up to 0.7m in depth. Beginning just S of centre, it runs S (L 5m) and then turns sharply to E to take up an E-W axis (L 7m). It then turns sharply to S again, continuing on a N-S axis (L 7.6m). Traces of drystone-walling are visible intermittently along its course and a number of collapsed roof lintels. 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

• GA030-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in otherwise level grassland. Subcircular ringfort (E-W 34.5m, N-S 30.5m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is breached by numerous gaps from S to W, and traces of inner stone-facing survive at N. The outer bank is overlain by a field wall from NE to SE and at W. Well-defined entrance at NE. (Neary 1914, 115, no. 104) 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

• GA030-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Some 180m NW of a ringfort (GA030-056----). Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 32m, N-S 28m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from NE through E to SW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank survive only from NNE to ENE. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at W. Possible entrance at SE. (Neary 1914, 115, no. 105) 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 Dunblaney.

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 Dunblaney.

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

Name

Dunblaney · Dún Bléine

Area

1,813,255 m² (181.33 ha, 448.07 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Clonbern, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonbern electoral division: 388 people in 133 households; 88% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackloon, Carrowroe East, Carrowroe West, Drumbulcaun, Gortagarraun, Knockroe, Lomaunaghbaun, Lomaunaghroe, Shanvally

Placenames

Dunblaney 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.