Eaglehill

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eaglehill, from 20 m² to 156,824 m² (15.68 ha, 38.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Eaglehill 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.

• 22 Apr 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: (Dwelling) 233 sqm & (Garage) 58 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460433

• 13 Feb 2019Conditional

  permission for (a) the construction of a domestic garage (b) to retain dwelling house, domestic garage treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site service on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained: House - 232 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19187

• 24 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a 3 bay double shed with slatted tanks and creep area, cattle crush, dung stand and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (Shed) 342 sqm, (Dung stand) 21 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181509

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 Eaglehill.

Recorded monuments

• GA116-051 Quarry
  Description

  In a marshy field of rough scrubland. A hachured feature marked on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused quarry pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 August 2014

• GA116-052 Designed landscape - folly
  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.

• GA125-056 Enclosure
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of a hillock in undulating farmland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m). On inspection in May 1983 no visible surface trace survived. Current aerial imagery (Google 2019) indicates that a small housing development has been built here. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 July 2019

• GA125-057 Country house
  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

• Eagle Hill, country house, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c.1750, with shallow single-bay breakfront, bowed end elevations, and two-storey bow-ended stairs return, and two-bay single-storey addition to north-west. Hipped slate roofs with pair of centrally located cement rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, with smooth rendered plinth course to front elevation, and weather-hung slate to south-west end elevation and to return. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to ground floor and six-over-six pane to first floor. Square-headed tripartite two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to single-storey block. Round-headed window opening to return, with double timber casement three-pane windows having coloured glass margins, and spoked fanlight. Round-headed main entrance doorway with ashlar limestone block-and-start doorcase, stone steps, cobweb fanlight, and replacement timber door. Limestone wheelguard to south-west end wall. Three-bay, two-storey outbuilding to south, having pitched slate roof with cut limestone eaves and copings, square-headed window openings to first floor, and segmental-arch openings, middle one of latter being higher than flanking openings, square-headed opening to east gable. Gateway has square-headed ashlar limestone piers with moulded cornices and pyramidal caps, with decoratrive cast-iron double-leaf gate having decorative hand hinge. Rubble limestone walls, curving in to gateway.

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

At the centre of the townland of Eaglehill, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Eaglehill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Eaglehill · Cnoc an Iolair

Area

646,913 m² (64.69 ha, 159.86 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Drumkeary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

625 people lived in 217 households in the Drumkeary electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbey, Barnaboy, Gortnamona, Knockaun, Knockaunbaun, Lisdurra, Tomanynambraher

Placenames

Eaglehill 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.