Gilroe

142 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gilroe, from 144 m² to 180,911 m² (18.09 ha, 44.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Gilroe 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.

• 14 Jan 2025Conditional

  to construct a new waste treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560031

• 3 May 2024Conditional

  to construct an extension and carryout alterations to an existing dwelling house and to relocate existing septic tank and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 61.60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460501

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA133-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low ridge c. 160m to the N of Loughaundoongorey. This very poorly preserved and densely overgrown subcircular rath (27m E-W; 22m N-S) is defined by a bank from NE to E and by a scarp from E to S. A curving band of vegetation at W and a field bank at N may indicate the former line of the enclosing element. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2019

• GA133A001 Hilltop enclosure
  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

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

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 Gilroe, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gilroe · An Ghabhail Rua

Area

1,378,490 m² (137.85 ha, 340.63 acres)

Civil parish

Beagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Ardamullivan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

722 people lived in 245 households in the Ardamullivan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Calluragh (Co. Clare), Carheeny Beg, Hollymount, Killeen, Knockatoo, Knockatoo Mountain, Knocklawrence, Laughil, Scalpnagown (Co. Clare), Tonranny, Tonranny Mountain

Placenames

Gilroe 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.