Ironpool

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ironpool, from 342 m² to 89,494 m² (8.95 ha, 22.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ironpool 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.

• 7 Apr 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank with treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 259 sqm (dwelling house) and 60sqm (domestic garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360359

• 5 Dec 2022Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank with treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 251 sqm (dwelling house) and 60sqm (domestic garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261204

• 5 Jan 2022Refused

  for the construction of serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260001

• 11 Oct 2019Conditional

  for the following as constructed on site; a) Dwelling house and boiler house as constructed on the site, originally granted permission in 1994 under Plan. Ref 69994., b). Septic tank and percolation area, as constructed on the site, c). Entrance and driveway, as constructed on the site, on revised site boundaries including all associated works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 176.5 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191598

• 26 Aug 2019Conditional

  of a) existing agricultural access roadway, b) to construct a multi-purpose agricultural and farm machinery dry shed and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 445 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Agric. Roadway

  Retention · Galway County Council, 191330

• 9 Jul 2019N/a

  to ; a) to retain existing agricultural access roadway, b) to construct a multi-purpose agricultural and farm machinery dry shed and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 445 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Agricultural Roadway

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191052

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 Ironpool.

Recorded monuments

• GA028-027 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland. A circular barrow (D 22.9m), in fair condition, consisting of a slightly raised central area (D c. 4m, H 0.2m) encircled by a bank. There are slight traces of a fosse, between the central area and the bank, and of an external fosse from NW through N to SE. 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ironpool.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ironpool, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ironpool with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ironpool · Poll an Iarainn

Area

1,744,663 m² (174.47 ha, 431.12 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconla, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Kilshanvy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

420 people lived in 145 households in the Kilshanvy electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagittagh, Beagh, Cartron, Cloonmweelaun, Cloonnaglasha, Cloonteen

Placenames

Ironpool 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.