# Eaglehill, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway; in Irish Cnoc an Iolair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 646,913 m² (64.69 ha, 159.86 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballynakill-loughrea-ra.md - Barony: Leitrim - Electoral division: Drumkeary, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19809 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61928 - Centre: latitude 53.109141, longitude -8.4055 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eaglehill, from 20 m² to 156,824 m² (15.68 ha, 38.75 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5109740: 156,824 m² (15.68 ha, 38.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5109740.md - Parcel 2022103: 148,568 m² (14.86 ha, 36.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2022103.md - Parcel 5109609: 140,711 m² (14.07 ha, 34.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5109609.md - Parcel 1932023: 56,052 m² (5.61 ha, 13.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932023.md - Parcel 5120568: 27,867 m² (2.79 ha, 6.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5120568.md - Parcel 5252543: 25,440 m² (2.54 ha, 6.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5252543.md - Parcel 4462741: 15,877 m² (1.59 ha, 3.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462741.md - Parcel 5252607: 14,266 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5252607.md - Parcel 2020663: 9,519 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020663.md - Parcel 5120579: 5,823 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5120579.md - Parcel 4669791: 4,318 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4669791.md - Parcel 1932022: 4,131 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932022.md - Parcel 4735219: 3,604 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4735219.md - Parcel 1932130: 3,410 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1932130.md - Parcel 4735212: 3,081 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4735212.md - Parcel 4462738: 2,977 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462738.md - Parcel 4462739: 2,549 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462739.md - Parcel 2020664: 2,334 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020664.md - Parcel 2433404: 2,290 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2433404.md - Parcel 4462740: 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462740.md - Parcel 2830912: 2,164 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2830912.md - Parcel 3636080: 1,950 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3636080.md - Parcel 5229741: 1,500 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5229741.md - Parcel 3635800: 1,459 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3635800.md - Parcel 4759082: 977 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4759082.md - Parcel 5229737: 972 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5229737.md - Parcel 3635780: 960 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3635780.md - Parcel 4777199: 926 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4777199.md - Parcel 4737309: 680 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4737309.md - Parcel 4718036: 676 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4718036.md - Parcel 6187021: 664 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6187021.md - Parcel 4863810: 645 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4863810.md - Parcel 4737325: 618 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4737325.md - Parcel 5109736: 581 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5109736.md - Parcel 5236178: 307 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5236178.md - Parcel 5424124: 167 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5424124.md - Parcel 2020662: 138 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2020662.md - Parcel 5438762: 95 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5438762.md - Parcel 6186999: 20 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6186999.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 22 Apr 2024, Galway County Council 2460433: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460433/0 - 13 Feb 2019, Galway County Council 19187: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19187/0 - 24 Oct 2018, Galway County Council 181509: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181509/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Eaglehill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA116-051: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA116-051----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA116-052----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA125-056----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA125-057----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Eagle Hill, country house, 1730–1770, Regional interest, registry number 30412501, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30412501. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/eaglehill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/eaglehill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/eaglehill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Eaglehill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Abbey: https://everytownland.com/galway/abbey-60004.md - Barnaboy: https://everytownland.com/galway/barnaboy-60494.md - Gortnamona: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortnamona-62332.md - Knockaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockaun-62799.md - Knockaunbaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockaunbaun-62805.md - Lisdurra: https://everytownland.com/galway/lisdurra.md - Tomanynambraher: https://everytownland.com/galway/tomanynambraher.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/eaglehill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/eaglehill