Patches

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Patches, from 18 m² to 112,201 m² (11.22 ha, 27.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Patches 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.

• 16 Apr 2026N/a

  of existing shed and cattle crush as well as all associated works and ancillary services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2660584

• 12 Mar 2026N/a

  of existing shed and cattle crush as well as all associated works and ancillary services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2660386

• 30 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct a new front extension, a new side extension, minor elevation changes to west gable end, alterations to internal floor layout including all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561417

• 10 Dec 2021Refused

  for the extension and renovation of the existing cottage, modification of the front wall and entrance of the site and permission to install a new effluent treatment system to replace the existing treatment system and all associated site works. (Gross floor space of work to be retained: 70 sqm.)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 212336

• 8 Feb 2018Conditional

  to demolish existing dwelling and construct a new dwelling and replace existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works 213 sqm. Gross floor space of demolition 90 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18122

• 31 Aug 2017N/a

  to demolish an existing dwelling and reconstruct a new single storey dwelling and replace existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works 253sqm. , demolition 90sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171308

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 Patches.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Patches.

Architectural heritage

• Building misc, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay single-storey thatched farm outbuilding, built c.1800. Pitched thatched roof with stepped granite coping to gables. Rubble granite walls with roughly squared granite quoins. Square-headed entrance to front elevation with timber lintel. Remains of another building/wall located to west.

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 Patches, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Patches · Na Paistí

Area

620,469 m² (62.05 ha, 153.32 acres)

Civil parish

Omey, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Sillerna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

466 people lived in 191 households in the Sillerna electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 36% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughrus More, Claddaghduff

Placenames

Patches 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.