Russelstown

138 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Russelstown, from 94 m² to 82,699 m² (8.27 ha, 20.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 51 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 Russelstown 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.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  to: (a) construct extensions and alterations to the existing dwelling house, (b) provide new upgraded proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area and (c) construct a private domestic garage, along with all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26217

• 14 Feb 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 217 sqm(house), 60.00 sqm(garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560160

• 7 Feb 2025Conditional

  to construct a domestic garage/fuel storage shed and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 45.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560124

• 27 Sept 2024Conditional

  to renovate the existing derelict dwelling house, carry out extensions to the dwelling house. Renovate the existing derelict shed for the purpose of fuel storage. To install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all the ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed work: 192.50 sqm (extension) & 37.00 sqm (renovated shed)

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2461271

• 19 Feb 2024Conditional

  for the development consisting of construction of a roofed manure pit & new slatted shed with an underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 414.72 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460166

• 18 Oct 2023Conditional

  for construction of a 4-bay slatted shed & underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23423

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  to (1) demolish the existing storage sheds to the side of the dwelling house (gross floor space of proposed works; 38.2 sqm) (2) construct an extension to the side of the existing dwelling house (gross floor space of proposed works; 43 sqm) (3) retention permission sought for the front and rear extensions of the dwelling house and all ancillary site works (retained extensions gross floor space: 36.8 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261307

• 30 Jan 2022Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 216 sqm (dwelling house)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260044

• 27 Apr 2021Conditional

  to: a) Demolition of vacant substandard house and septic tank, b) Dismantle and removal of Agricultural Shed, c) Construction of new dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 227.5 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: Vacant substandard house: 36 sqm + shed 136 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21682

• 1 May 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200 sqm (House), 60 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20540

• 9 Oct 2017N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 191sqm, Garage 48sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171460

• 25 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling House 285sqm, Garage 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171110

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA016-126 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in otherwise level grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 20m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives from E through S to W. A number of small hollows occupy S half of interior. 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

• GA016-127 Children's burial ground
  Description

  At NE end of a level field. An unenclosed artificial square mound (L/Wth 8.6m) on which numerous small set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. According to local information, burials took place here up to c. 55 years ago. 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

• GA016-128 Enclosure
  Description

  On top of a hillock in undulating pastureland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m) cut by field banks at SW and NW. 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Russelstown.

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 20 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 Russelstown.

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

Name

Russelstown · Baile an Ruiséalaigh

Area

2,630,612 m² (263.06 ha, 650.04 acres)

Civil parish

Addergoole, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Milltown electoral division: 704 people in 266 households; 86% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellaconeen, Cloonaghgarve, Cooladooaun, Curraghaun, Dawros Lower, Dawros Upper, Knockaunkeel, Knockballyvishteal, Lack, Rosmearan

Placenames

Russelstown 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.