Patch

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Patch, from 394 m² to 141,771 m² (14.18 ha, 35.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Patch 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.

• 13 Apr 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and waste water treatment system with all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2680

• 6 Apr 2026Conditional

  for the relaying of existing grass pitches, floodlighting to existing grass training pitch, construction of synthetic training pitch with perimeter fencing, floodlighting & ball wall, construction of perimeter walking/running track with floodlighting, construction of all ancillary site structures including ball stop netting, goal posts, player dugouts and associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660510

• 10 Mar 2026Conditional

  for the construction of (i) single storey clubhouse building comprising dressing rooms, meeting room & toilets, (ii) on site wastewater treatment system (iii) all-weather playing pitch including perimeter fencing, player dugouts & floodlighting, (iv) flood lighting to existing grass playing pitch, (v) spectator stand, (vi) perimeter walking track with flood lighting, (vii) completion of existing, previously permitted, access road including surfacing, drainage & lighting, and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660367

• 10 Feb 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a meeting room/equipment storage building (gross floor area 38 sqm) and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560133

• 15 Jul 2024Conditional

  for: a) the conversion of first floor of dwelling to bedrooms and b) elevational changes and revised boundaries from previously approved Planning Ref; 98/1106. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 70.56 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460879

• 16 May 2024N/a

  of: a) the conversion of first floor of dwelling to bedrooms and b) elevational changes from previously approved Planning Ref; 98/1106. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 70.56 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460562

• 10 Dec 2021Conditional

  of existing dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system on revised site boundaries (gross floor area to be retained house 279 sqm & garage 32 sqm) and permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house (gross floor area of extension 31 sqm.) and associated works.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212338

• 8 Oct 2021N/a

  for development which will consist of the retention of existing domestic garage (gross floor area to be retained 32 sqm) and the construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house (gross floor area of extension 31 sqm) and associated works.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211870

• 18 Apr 2018Conditional

  to construct a storage shed for storing implements pertaining to maintenance of sports field and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 55.8sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18467

• 17 Aug 2017Unconditional

  to construct two playing pitches, an astroturf pitch dressing rooms combining two hand ball alleys, wastewater treatment plant, parking area, new access road and all associated site works, previous planning reference no. 12/612 (gross floor space 910.85sqm)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 171237

• 9 Aug 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, treatment system, percolation area and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 307sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171202

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 Patch.

Recorded monuments

• GA045-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland. Circular ringfort (D 35m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone and external fosse. A gap (Wth 2m) at S may be original. (Claffey 1983, 161) 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

• GA045-044 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On an esker overlooking Loch Nalaradh to W. Unenclosed irregular area (N-S 32m, E-W 12m) defined along W side by a field wall. Within the interior, numerous set stones, aligned N-S, indicate graves oriented E-W. There is an is an iron cross NW quadrant. Burials occurred up to the 1940s (Claffey 1983, 161). 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

• GA045-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hill in grassland. Very poorly preserved almost circular rath (E-W 35m, N-S 34m) defined by a scarp and shallow external fosse. A pathway cuts the monument at E. (Claffey 1983, 161) 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 Patch.

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 5 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 Patch.

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

Name

Patch · An Paiste

Area

1,099,900 m² (109.99 ha, 271.79 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Mount Bellew, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mount Bellew electoral division: 1,972 people in 701 households; 80% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingatta, Carrownabo, Castlebellew, Cloonoran, Gortaganny, Moylough More

Placenames

Patch 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.