Glenatallan

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenatallan, from 997 m² to 109,286 m² (10.93 ha, 27.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Glenatallan 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.

• 18 Dec 2023Conditional

  for the demolition of existing dwelling house ruin and the construction of a new Dwelling House, Domestic garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 147.60sqm (house) & 42sqm (garage). Gross floor space of any demolition: 50.40sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361523

• 12 Sept 2017Conditional

  to construct a rear extension to an existing derelict two storey dwelling house, upgrade the existing septic tank to a treatment unit and polishing filter along with all associated services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 183.51sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171354

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 Glenatallan.

Recorded monuments

• GA105-096 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. This circular enclosure (max. diam. 33.6m), in fair condition, is defined by a wide earthen bank (Wth at SW 3.5m; base Wth 12.3m; int. H 1.85m; ext. H 0.7m). There is no visible trace of a fosse but a there is a possible entrance feature at S. The interior slopes towards the centre. Possibly a barrow but McCaffrey (1952, 257, no. 15) classified it as an 'Earthen fort' and noted that had been badly damaged by quarrying and cultivation. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 March 2019

• GA105-097 Chapel
  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 Glenatallan.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_968 (ZIP).

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

Name

Glenatallan · Gleann an tSalainn

Area

485,886 m² (48.59 ha, 120.07 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconickny, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilconickny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilconickny electoral division: 678 people in 217 households; 93% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Conicar, Gortawullaun, Knockauncoura, Lurgan, Raheen Eighter

Placenames

Glenatallan 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.