# Joycegrove, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Ceathrú na Lathaí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 628,201 m² (62.82 ha, 155.23 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,834 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tuam, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/tuam.md - Barony: Dunmore - Electoral division: Killeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 734 people lived in 245 households in the Killeen electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21754 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62520 - Centre: latitude 53.568285, longitude -8.799209 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Joycegrove, from 130 m² to 135,682 m² (13.57 ha, 33.53 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4934791: 135,682 m² (13.57 ha, 33.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934791.md - Parcel 4934836: 5,096 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934836.md - Parcel 2106175: 4,234 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2106175.md - Parcel 2056383: 3,894 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2056383.md - Parcel 2106177: 3,853 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2106177.md - Parcel 2106178: 3,834 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2106178.md - Parcel 5012663: 3,384 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5012663.md - Parcel 5171588: 2,046 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5171588.md - Parcel 2056384: 1,412 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2056384.md - Parcel 2106176: 310 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2106176.md - Parcel 2727419: 130 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2727419.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Joycegrove 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 19 Aug 2024, Galway County Council 2461074: N/a. Permission. to construct a new agricultural entrance/exit gateway and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461074/0 - 9 Nov 2022, Galway County Council 2261126: N/a. Permission. sought to construct a new agricultural entrance/exit gateway and all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2261126/0 - 2 Sept 2022, Galway County Council 2260890: N/a. Permission. sought to construct a new agricultural entrance/exit gateway and all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260890/0 - 5 Aug 2022, Galway County Council 22949: Conditional. Permission. for an extension and alterations to an existing school and upgrading the effluent treatment system together with associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 165 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/22949/0 - 19 Apr 2018, Galway County Council 18472: Conditional. Permission. to construct a new car park with pick up/ drop off facilities, new entrance/exit gates and all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18472/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Joycegrove. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA030-071: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-071----. On a rise is open pastureland, formerly demesne land. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. 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 - GA030-072: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-072----. On a rise in open pastureland, formerly demesne land. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. 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 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) - Brownnsgrove House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 30403001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30403001. Entrance gates to Browne's Grove country house, erected c.1850, and comprising vehicular entrance flanked by square-plan ashlar limestone piers with chamfered corners, moulded plinths and carved moulded pyramidal caps, supporting ornate cast-iron double-leaf gate, and having cut limetone wheelguards. Gateway flanked by similar cast-iron railings atop moulded limestone plinths having S-plan, terminating in similar piers to those of gateway. ## 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 Joycegrove, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Joycegrove. - 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/joycegrove.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/joycegrove.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/joycegrove.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Joycegrove 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) - Acres: https://everytownland.com/galway/acres-60019.md - Carrowntanlis: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowntanlis.md - Graigue: https://everytownland.com/galway/graigue-62370.md - Killeenan More: https://everytownland.com/galway/killeenan-more.md - Queensfort: https://everytownland.com/galway/queensfort.md - Rahogarty North: https://everytownland.com/galway/rahogarty-north.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/joycegrove - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/joycegrove