Hampstead

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hampstead, from 509 m² to 170,665 m² (17.07 ha, 42.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Hampstead 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.

• 1 Dec 2021Refused

  for the construction of a dwelling house (267 sqm), garage, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 267 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212260

• 10 Oct 2019Conditional

  for the demolition of an existing dwelling and shed, the construction of a dwelling house, garage, stables, tool shed, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 256 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 197 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191579

• 31 Aug 2017Conditional

  to carry out alterations/extend dwelling house, install septic tank and percolation area and to widen entrance to dwelling house. Gross floor space proposed 55sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171300

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 Hampstead.

Recorded monuments

• GA073-088 Earthwork
  Description

  In undulating farmland, 300m WSW of Hampstead House. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular tree-filled enclosure (D c. 40m) and on 3rd ed. (1933) as a U-shaped formation of deciduous trees. What survives is a large striking steep-sided mound (H c. 3m), composed of grassed-over limestone blocks and rubble, which appears to have been quarried into at W. Traces of a surrounding bank are visible from W to N. Possibly a landscape feature but its morphology is also similar to that of a barrow. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA073-090 Country house
  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

• Hampstead House, house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey house with basement to rear, built c.1780, with remains of three-storey half-hexagonal bow to central three bays of front elevation, and three-storey projecting stairs bay to rear. Now roofless and ruined. Coursed rubble limestone walls with lime render, moulded cornice, tooled ashlar limestone quoins to front elevation, and tooled limestone plinth with coping. Ashlar limestone façade to front, and remains of lime render over coursed rubble to other elevations. Square-headed window and door openings with flat arch having dressed limestone voussoirs, and tooled limestone sills. Set in triangular plot between two laneways with random rubble limestone walled garden to north.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Hampstead · Doire Liath

Area

2,209,603 m² (220.96 ha, 546 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacward, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Ballymacward, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymacward electoral division: 316 people in 113 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alloon Upper, Garrymore, Killamude East, Killooaun (Browne), Lisloughlin, Mountbernard, Mounthazel, Mountventure

Placenames

Hampstead 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.