# Griggins, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ross, barony of Ross, Co. Galway; in Irish Na Grigíneacha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 6,128,897 m² (612.89 ha, 1,514.48 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 106,113 m² (10.61 ha, 26.22 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ross, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ross.md - Barony: Ross - Electoral division: Letterbrickaun, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 262 people lived in 85 households in the Letterbrickaun electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20753 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62405 - Centre: latitude 53.557196, longitude -9.620339 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Griggins, from 387 m² to 1,825,854 m² (182.59 ha, 451.18 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2075763: 1,825,854 m² (182.59 ha, 451.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075763.md - Parcel 5706924: 992,381 m² (99.24 ha, 245.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5706924.md - Parcel 2028050: 928,929 m² (92.89 ha, 229.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2028050.md - Parcel 2075765: 631,886 m² (63.19 ha, 156.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075765.md - Parcel 2028054: 516,747 m² (51.67 ha, 127.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2028054.md - Parcel 2028049: 214,279 m² (21.43 ha, 52.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2028049.md - Parcel 2075762: 203,943 m² (20.39 ha, 50.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075762.md - Parcel 2075759: 203,118 m² (20.31 ha, 50.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075759.md - Parcel 2075757: 136,340 m² (13.63 ha, 33.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075757.md - Parcel 2113891: 106,113 m² (10.61 ha, 26.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2113891.md - Parcel 2028053: 104,454 m² (10.45 ha, 25.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2028053.md - Parcel 2075764: 89,779 m² (8.98 ha, 22.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075764.md - Parcel 2028051: 78,358 m² (7.84 ha, 19.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2028051.md - Parcel 2028052: 61,633 m² (6.16 ha, 15.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2028052.md - Parcel 2075761: 11,832 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075761.md - Parcel 2075758: 3,996 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075758.md - Parcel 5509467: 3,191 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5509467.md - Parcel 5706987: 1,209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5706987.md - Parcel 2426858: 387 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2426858.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Griggins 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) 1 application, newest first. - 16 Nov 2017, Galway County Council 171640: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the demolition of existing substandard house, shed and septic tank to construct a proposed single storey house, detached shed and a waste water treatment system with polishing filter. Gross floor space of proposed work 158sqm., demolition 82sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171640/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Maumturk Mountains SAC, site code 002008, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002008 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumtrasna Mountain Complex, site code 000735 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA025-005: Boundary mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA025-005----. 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. - GA025-006: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA025-006----. On the summit of a knoll to N of the Joyce River in Gleann an Mháma. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 23.7m; E-W 19.9m) defined by traces of a low drystone wall now overlain by a modern field wall. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA025-006001: House - indeterminate date, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA025-006001-. Some 30m N of a ringfort (GA025-006----) A small rectangular drystone hut (3m by 2.65m int.). Possible entrance at NW corner (Topgr. Files, UCG). Not visited. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 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) - Bridge, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 30402501, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30402501. Single-arch road bridge, built c.1860, spanning small river. Comprises round arch with margined rock-faced stone voussoirs and soffits, set in frame formed by dressed limestone block pilasters and base of parapet having corbel table to south elevation and split rubble stone to north elevation. Dressed stone masonry to spandrels. Recent rubble stone parapet walls and coping. Rubble stone abutments with square-profile end piers. ## 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 Griggins, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Griggins. - 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/griggins.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/griggins.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/griggins.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Griggins 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) - Breenaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/breenaun.md - Cammanagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/cammanagh.md - Currarevagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/currarevagh-61680.md - Derreen: https://everytownland.com/galway/derreen-61738.md - Gowlaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/gowlaun-62365.md - Kilmeelickin: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilmeelickin.md - Lee: https://everytownland.com/galway/lee.md - Munterowen East: https://everytownland.com/galway/munterowen-east.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/griggins - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/griggins