Oldstreet
Oldstreet is a townland in the civil parish of Kilquain, barony of Longford, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is An tSeantsráid.
- Area
- 84.3 ha
- 208 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 9,511 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldstreet, from 446 m² to 363,085 m² (36.31 ha, 89.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Oldstreet 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
25 Jul 2024Conditional
for the (a) construction of a 2-storey dwelling, (b) a domestic garage, (c) 4 bay stable with tack room and hay barn, (d) wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, (e) new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 271 sqm (H), 60.16 sqm (G), 91.86 sqm (S)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24219
1 Mar 2023Conditional
for: (a) the demolition of existing sheds (b) the construction of a part two storey and part single storey extension to the front of the existing dwelling house (c) a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house (d) changes to elevations on the existing dwelling (e) and all associated site services.Gross floor space of proposed works 107.86.Gross floor space of any demolition 51.70sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360188
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Capira/Derrew Bog NHA 001240
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Oldstreet.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oldstreet.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Oldstreet, about 1 in 10 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Oldstreet.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Oldstreet with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Oldstreet · An tSeantsráid
- Area
- 843,134 m² (84.31 ha, 208.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilquain, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Kilquain, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 303 people lived in 107 households in the Kilquain electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Oldstreet 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.