Gloves South
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltullagh, barony of Athenry, Co. Galway; in Irish Na Glaimhe Theas
- Area
- 132 ha
- 326 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 32,443 m² (3.24 ha, 8.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gloves South, from 93 m² to 177,534 m² (17.75 ha, 43.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gloves South 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Jun 2021Conditional
to extend existing slatted cow wintering shed to include additional cow cubicles and slatted effluent storage tanks including all associated works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works 380sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 211036
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gloves South.
Recorded monuments
- GA084-078 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m). Described by Cody (1989, 289, no. 113) as a low grass-covered circular mound (H c. 1m) delimited by a gently sloping edge. It was known locally as a ‘Lisheen’. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 March 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gloves South.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gloves South.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gloves South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Gloves South · Na Glaimhe Theas
- Area
- 1,319,790 m² (131.98 ha, 326.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltullagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athenry
- Electoral division
- Athenry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Athenry electoral division: 5,765 people in 2,069 households; 67% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brusk, Carnakelly South, Esker, Gloves Middle, Killascaul
- Placenames
- Gloves South 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.