# Quarrymount, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunmore, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Poll an Choiléir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 584,524 m² (58.45 ha, 144.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,353 m² (2.14 ha, 5.28 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunmore, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/dunmore.md - Barony: Dunmore - Electoral division: Doonbally, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 626 people lived in 210 households in the Doonbally electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21577 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63622 - Centre: latitude 53.597802, longitude -8.870092 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Quarrymount, from 2,296 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 51,241 m² (5.12 ha, 12.66 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1991160: 51,241 m² (5.12 ha, 12.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991160.md - Parcel 1991158: 50,495 m² (5.05 ha, 12.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991158.md - Parcel 1991168: 50,219 m² (5.02 ha, 12.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991168.md - Parcel 1991171: 39,562 m² (3.96 ha, 9.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991171.md - Parcel 2112963: 35,415 m² (3.54 ha, 8.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112963.md - Parcel 1991166: 34,922 m² (3.49 ha, 8.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991166.md - Parcel 1959667: 30,720 m² (3.07 ha, 7.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959667.md - Parcel 1959661: 26,460 m² (2.65 ha, 6.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959661.md - Parcel 1991163: 26,039 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991163.md - Parcel 1959664: 24,749 m² (2.47 ha, 6.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959664.md - Parcel 1991167: 24,227 m² (2.42 ha, 5.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991167.md - Parcel 1991157: 23,453 m² (2.35 ha, 5.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991157.md - Parcel 1991161: 22,475 m² (2.25 ha, 5.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991161.md - Parcel 1959666: 20,231 m² (2.02 ha, 5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959666.md - Parcel 1959663: 18,000 m² (1.8 ha, 4.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959663.md - Parcel 1959670: 17,669 m² (1.77 ha, 4.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959670.md - Parcel 1991169: 17,235 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991169.md - Parcel 1959665: 16,123 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959665.md - Parcel 1959669: 15,436 m² (1.54 ha, 3.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959669.md - Parcel 1959662: 9,437 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959662.md - Parcel 1959668: 8,511 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1959668.md - Parcel 1991170: 7,785 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991170.md - Parcel 1991159: 4,360 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991159.md - Parcel 1991165: 3,772 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991165.md - Parcel 1991164: 3,693 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991164.md - Parcel 1991162: 2,296 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1991162.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Quarrymount 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) No planning application touches the townland of Quarrymount in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Quarrymount. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA016-067: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA016-067----. On a hillock in grassland within the former Quarrymount Demesne. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) 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 - GA016-125: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA016-125----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. 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) - Quarrymount House, house, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 30401606, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30401606. Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c.1830, with basement and shallow entrance breakfront having scar of former porch. Lower two-storey return to return is recent rebuild. House had been abandoned and recently restored. Hipped slate roof, largely obscured by cornice, latter comprising panelled concrete piers with cast-iron decorative metal balustrade, and with blocking course below, and with pair of centrally placed rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls having limestone base moulding, limestone platband above ground floor window level, and raised concrete quoins. Square-headed window openings with moulded concrete architraves to first floor and moulded concrete brackets and cornices to ground floor. Timber six-over-six pane sliding sash windows. Concrete dressings are of late nineteenth-century date. Wide elliptical-headed tripartite Doric-like doorcase of cut limestone, with panelled pilasters supporting simple moulded cornice. Original porch moved to another house when Quarrymount abandoned. Shallow full-height two-bay bow on west return facade. Doorcase has wide timber cobweb fanlight and two-leaf panelled door. Interior restored, with elaborate gilded decorative plasterwork. Decorative cast-iron parapet to basement area. ## 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 Quarrymount, 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 Quarrymount. - 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/quarrymount.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/quarrymount.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/quarrymount.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Quarrymount 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) - Baunmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/baunmore-60522.md - Carrowbaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowbaun-60913.md - Carrowreagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowreagh-61024.md - Kilcloony: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilcloony-62570.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/quarrymount - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/quarrymount