Grange
Townland in the civil parish of Killeenadeema, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish An Ghráinseach
- Area
- 89.2 ha
- 220 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 1,139 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange, from 17 m² to 391,398 m² (39.14 ha, 96.72 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 Grange 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
21 May 2021Conditional
for the construction of Dwelling House, Domestic garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 270.9 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21873
18 Dec 2020Refused
for the construction of a Dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 270.9 msq
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201974
25 May 2017Conditional
to install a septic tank and percolation area and decommission the old septic tank.
Permission · Galway County Council, 17752
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Rea SAC 000304
- Special Protection Area: Lough Rea SPA 004134
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Rea 000304
Recorded monuments
- GA105-109 Ringfort - cashel
Description
In flat pastureland, c. 400m to the S of Lough Rea. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m); on the 1929 resurvey it is indicated by a line of hachures from SSW through W to N and is more subrectangular in plan. No visible surface trace survives. The cartographic evidence and name suggest it was a ringfort, possibly a cashel. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 March 2019
- GA105-111 Ringfort - rath
Description
In grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 35m) defined by a bank with traces of internal stone-facing at NE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2018
- GA105-112 Enclosure
Description
In pastureland. Marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a possible enclosure (c. 15m N-S; c. 10m E-W), roughly oval in shap. No visible surface trace survives. Cashels (GA105-109---- and GA 105-113----) lie c. 175m to the NE and c. 135m to the S respectively. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 March 2019
- GA105-113 Ringfort - cashel
Description
In pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 35m NE-SW; c. 32m NW-SE). No visible surface trace survives. The cartographic evidence and name suggest that it was a ringfort, possibly a cashel. Another possible cashel was located c. 310m to the NNE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 March 2019
- GA105-114 Kiln - lime
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 Grange.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_992 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Grange with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Grange · An Ghráinseach
- Area
- 891,626 m² (89.16 ha, 220.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeenadeema, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughrea
- Electoral division
- Mountain, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mountain electoral division: 299 people in 106 households; 95% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Earlspark, Glenaclara East, Grangepark, Killeenadeema East, Killeenadeema West
- Placenames
- Grange 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.