Roundstone

309 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roundstone, from 6 m² to 53,685 m² (5.37 ha, 13.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Roundstone 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.

• 5 Feb 2026Conditional

  for extensions and alterations to existing dwelling house with all associated works and ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660155

• 28 Nov 2025Refused

  for the renovation and extension of an existing dwelling, including demolition and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561754

• 13 Oct 2025Conditional

  of existing dwelling house as constructed on site with revised site boundaries to those previously granted planning permission under Pl. Ref. 98/196; removal of lifetime enurement clause; all ancillary site works and site services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561491

• 12 Oct 2025Conditional

  for a) change of use of the ground floor from retail to residential, providing 1no studio apartment, b) changes to the front elevation & c) replacing the existing perished roof finish with a new standing seam, metal deck roof

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561486

• 4 Jul 2025Conditional

  for dwelling house as constructed on revised site boundaries and permission is being sought to replace existing septic tank with a new wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 229.50 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560897

• 4 Mar 2025Conditional

  for second floor extension with a pitched type roof to existing residential building with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 92.80 sqm(extension)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560222

• 5 Dec 2024Conditional

  for the demolition of an existing substandard dwelling and outbuildings, construction of a new dwelling house and all ancillary site works & site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 167.60 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 70.50 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461659

• 13 May 2024Refused

  for the upgrade of existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system, to the rear, and raised polishing filter bed, to the front including all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 160.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460545

• 8 Feb 2024Conditional

  for the demolition of an existing commercial building and the construction of a two storey plus built-in attic level infill dwelling house (approximately 223 M) and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 223 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 63 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460126

• 12 Jan 2024N/a

  for a single storey rear extension together with minor elevation alterations to an existing residential dwelling and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 77 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 245

• 11 Oct 2022Conditional

  for a dwelling house and ancillary car parking with all associated works and ancillary services.Gross floor space of proposed works 88.80sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261014

• 28 Jul 2022N/a

  to (1) install new all-weather MUGA pitch, flood lighting and fencing as well as all ancillary site works .Gross floor space of proposed works 918.00sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2260772

• 30 Jun 2022Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house and sewage treatment system along with all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 184 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22829

• 9 Mar 2022Conditional

  to demolish an existing shed and to construct a dwelling house and ancillary siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 166sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22310

• 16 Nov 2021Conditional

  for a development consisting of the demolition of an existing storage unit, construction of a new Dwelling house, connection to public sewer and public water mains, together with all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212117

• 8 Oct 2021Conditional

  for two dwelling houses and ancillary car parking with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: .75sqm x 2 = 150sqm.

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 211868

• 5 Nov 2020Conditional

  for the redevelopment and renovation of an existing village site containing 4 units (Gross floor area 468.84 sqm). The existing site comprises of a 7 bed guest house, 2 no. 3 bed houses and a former public house premises. The proposed redevelopment works will comprise of (1) Renovation and upgrade of all existing buildings, including some minor alterations (2) Conversion of the ground floor unit formerly used as public house into residential space (3) Re-arrangement of the overall development into 5 no. residential units (Gross floor area 446.4 sqm) (4) External upgrade works to the rear of the site including the removal of 2 no. existing outhouses to create additional open space along with upgrade of site services and drainage and (5) all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 446.4 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 29.75 sqm

  Permission, 5 homes · Galway County Council, 201649

• 16 Oct 2020Conditional

  for (i) residential extension to rear of existing building and (ii) change of use of café/restaurant to living accommodation with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 21.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201532

• 24 Sept 2020Conditional

  to (1) demolish existing toilets and entrance area of the community hall building and permission to construct new single storey extension to include new entrance area, storage area, reception area and toilets (2) minor external and internal alterations to the existing community hall (3) New window to the south elevation of the community hall. (4) New balcony area to the rear of the community hall as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 92.03 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 398.56 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 37.39 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201382

• 14 Feb 2020Refused

  for (i) change of use of café/restaurant to living accommodation, (ii) three storey residential extension to rear of existing building and (iii) to replace existing flat roof with a single storey apartment living accommodation with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 59.4 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20185

• 30 Jan 2020Conditional

  to (1) construct a new side and rear elevation extension to the existing dwelling house (2) construct a front elevation porch (3) external and internal alterations to existing dwelling house as well as all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 79.25 sqm and Gross floor space of work to be retained: 78.85 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20102

• 11 Dec 2019Conditional

  of revised elevations and floor plans, set back distance and front boundary wall treatments on dwelling house granted under Pl. Ref 05/1861. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 154.8 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191907

• 10 Dec 2019Conditional

  for the decommissioning and removal of the existing wastewater treatment plant and construction of a new wastewater treatment plant at Michael Killeen Park, Roundstone, Co. Galway. The works will consist of the removal of the existing wastewater treatment tank and installation of 3 no. wastewater dosing units and 1 no. wastewater treatment plant along with all ancillary works, interconnecting pipework and site development works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191902

• 23 Aug 2019Conditional

  for alterations and extensions to O'Dowd's Café and house at Main Street, Roundstone to include the following: 1: Extension to rear of existing café premises 2: conversion of existing ground floor residential area to café seating and toilet accommodation, 3: conversion of existing first floor residential to one no. 1 bedroom apartment 4: new external seating area to rear of café, 5: second floor extension to accommodate one no. 2 bedroom apartment, 5: façade alterations 6: all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 276 sqm (Café & associated services: 133.1 sqm, One Bedroom Apartment - 52 sqm, Two Bedroom Apartment - 91 sqm). Gross floor space of any demolition: 3.2 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191320

• 20 Aug 2019N/a

  for a change of house design, previously granted under PL Ref No. 181254, including all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 76.00 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 69.00 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 13.94 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191290

The 25 most recent of 28 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Area of Conservation: Cregduff Lough SAC 001251
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cregduff Lough 001251

Recorded monuments

• GA050-022 Chapel
  Description

  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.

• GA050-023 Ecclesiastical site
  Description

  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.

• GA050-024001 Church
  Description

  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.

• GA050-024002 Graveyard
  Description

  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.

• GA050-024003 Graveyard
  Description

  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.

• GA050-030 Inscribed stone
  Description

  Built into the outer face of what was originally the N gable of the fish curing station in Roundstone. An extension was subsequently built against the gable. An inscribed stone bearing the date 1731 and a number of incised lines was brought to the attention of Mr Tim Robinson (pers. comm. 1986), who forwarded a rubbing of it to Prof. E. Rynne, Dept. of Archaeology, UCG. Prof. Rynne (pers. comm. 1987) noted that the stone had been reused and that, apart from the date, the carving was difficult to interpret. He suggested that it might be a version of a schematic plough that was found on many graveslabs in Co. Galway or that it could be some sort of guild insignia, such as can be see on some of the armorial-bearing stones around Galway city. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 February 2023

Architectural heritage

• Ballagh House, house, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former rectory, dated 1885, having projecting porch to front elevation, two-bay south-east side elevation with full-height canted projections, and recent lean-to extension to rear. Now in use as private residence. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron and replacement aluminium rainwater goods, and brick eaves. Line-and-ruled rendered walls with plinth, and brick walls to canted projections and to porch. Plaque to north-west side elevation. Square-headed window openings with chamfered brick block-and-start surrounds, brick sills, interior timber shutters and replacement uPVC windows. Five-bay outbuilding to west with pitched slate and asbestos roof, rendered chimneystack, roughcast rendered walls and square-headed timber casement windows and timber battened doors. Set within garden enclosed by randomly coursed limestone walls with rendered piers and replacement iron gates.

• Leabharlann Cloch na Rón, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey former house, built c.1840. Now in use as public library. Recent extensions to rear. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystack with cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to front elevation and roughcast rendered walls to south side elevation. Square-head window openings, doubled to ground floor, having one-over one pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Square-headed door opening having chamfered rendered surround and timber battened door with overlight. Outbuildings to south side.

• Quay/wharf, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  L-plan quay, built c.1860, extending into Cuan Chloch na Rón [Roundstone Bay] having slipway at right angles to shorter east-west leg, longer north-south leg being parallel to coast. Walls of coursed and dressed limestone and granite. Slipway is of stone, widened to seaward side in concrete. Flights of limestone and granite steps to sheltered side of longer leg. Rendered parapet to seaward side of quay, stone flag surface and dressed limestone coping to sheltered side. Limestone mooring posts to sheltered side of quay, on dressed stone plinths. Iron rings and steel ladders at intervals to sheltered sides.

• Quay/wharf, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  L-plan quay, built 1822, extending into Cuan Chloch na Rón [Roundstone Bay]. Battered sides to seaward-facing shorter leg, seaward side also having heavy battered plinth incorporating living rock. Longer leg has slipway to west end, flight of stone steps and metal ladders to seaward side. Walls of irregularly coursed rubble granite and limestone, rubble stone parapet to seward side of seaward leg. Concrete surfaces to quay. Dressed limestone and iron bollards to longer leg.

• Saint Mary's Church (Moyrus), church/chapel, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1842, having four-bay nave, single-bay chancel, three-stage tower to south-east corner, and porch to west gable. Pitched artificial slate roof to nave, slate roof to porch, possibly shallow hipped roof to tower with carved stone coping, and cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Irregularly coursed rubble stone walls with pecked and margined limestone quoins and plinths, carved limestone brackets to gables, pecked and margined limestone insets bearing decorative iron quatrefoil vent covers to base of windows in long walls, rendered plinth and quoins to porch, and string course and rock-faced quoins to top stage of tower. Carved stone cross finial to porch. Round-headed windows throughout, nave openings having chamfered pecked and margined raised limestone surrounds with stained-glass windows in lead latticework, chancel gable having triple lancet window with tooled chamfered limestone surround, hood-mouldings and coloured glass. Triple lancet window to porch gable with rendered surrounds and replacement uPVC windows. Tower has square-headed window openings with rendered brick surrounds with fixed panes, oculus with rendered surround and hood-moulding to second stage and round-headed windows to top stage with render hood-mouldings and surrounds, and timber louvers. Round-headed door openings with tooled limestone hood-mouldings, chamfered limestone surrounds, and replacement timber battened doors, double-leaf to porch, and having stone steps. Set on high ground with tree-lined footpath from the street with dressed stone piers, carved limestone stone gate-stop and double-leaf wrought-iron gates. More formal entrance to southwest comprising rubble stone piers with double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay two-storey former house, built c.1820, previously in use as bank now in use as restaurant. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack to south gable, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to front elevation, plain rendered to south gable. Raised render fascia between floors. Camber-headed window openings with render sills, replacement fixed timber-framed display windows to ground floor, and three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor. Camber-headed door opening with replacement timber glazed double-leaf door with timber glazed side-panels and overlight. Situated on raised terrace eith rendered parapets.

• Ivy House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey house built, c.1820 with additional block to rear. Pitched slate roof to main house and artificial slate roof to addition, rendered chimneystacks, roof-lights and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Addition has two-over-two pane timber sliding sash and replacement timber windows. Battened timber shutters to south gable window opening. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door and glazed surround. Painted rendered rubble-stone wall to front boundary.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay three-storey house, built c.1860. Now in use as shop to ground floor and apartments to upper floors and having recent additions to rear and south-east corner. Pitched artificial slate roof with lined-and-ruled rendered chimneystacks, and replacment aluminium and uPVC rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with moulded render brackets to ends of eaves. Recent timber shopfront, not in use, to south gable. Square-headed window openings with render sills, having fixed timber-framed bipartite display windows to ground floor of front elevation. Replacement timber sliding sash windows to front and south elevations, two-over-two pane to front openings and to some south gable openings and some double one-over-one pane to south gable. Square-headed door opening to front, having replacement timber panelled door and overlight within render doorcase comprising fluted pilasters with moulded brackets supporting dentillated cornice with scrollwork to cornice.

• Séipéal Realt na Mara [Catholic Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea], church/chapel, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted cruciform-plan Roman Catholic church, built c.1875, entrance facing west. Comprising three-bay nave, single-bay transepts and chancel, gable-fronted porch to front, recent flat-roof vestry to south-east and lean-to boiler room to north-east. Pitched slate roofs with shouldered render copings to gables, rendered bellcote with pointed arch bell opening, and replacement aluminium and uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plat bands, plinth and eaves course with moulded corbels. Pointed-arch rendered recessed surrounds to windows, having round-headed lights, triple to east gable and transept gables and double elsewhere, all with oculus over, with lead-lined plain and stained-glass. Pointed-arch door opening to porch within splayed rendered surround having replacement double-leaf timber glazed doors and stained-glass overlight. Square-headed door openings elsewhere having replacement battened timber doors. Braced A-frame trussed roof to interior with wood panelled ceiling, simple adornments to interior with marble altar and recently renovated porch interior. Three graves of former Brothers associated with earlier church situated to north of northern transept, with dates from 1845, 1837 and 1846. Graves of relatively recent parish priests and a Marian shrine are located to south of church. Boundary walls of roughly coursed granite with iron railings and rendered gate piers with concrete coping.

• Seaview House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having three-bay first floor and four-bay ground floor. Formerly thatched single-storey house, first floor added c.1920, with outbuilding attached to north gable and formerly part of original dwelling. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Plastered limewashed walls with rendered wall to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings having stone and render sills with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, replacement timber casement windows to rear. Square-headed door openings to front and to middle of first floor, latter giving access to field to rear, with replacement battened timber doors. Outbuilding has pitched corrugated-iron roof, limewashed stone walls and square-headed window and door openings, latter having timber battened door.

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 Roundstone, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_42 (ZIP).

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

Name

Roundstone · Cloch na Rón

Area

852,440 m² (85.24 ha, 210.64 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Roundstone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

445 people lived in 187 households in the Roundstone electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 48% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Errisbeg East, Ervallagh, Letterdife

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Roundstone 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.