Sycamorehill

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sycamorehill. The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Sycamorehill 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Sycamorehill in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Sycamorehill.

Recorded monuments

• GA100-159 Designed landscape feature
  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.

• GA100-160 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

• GA100-161 Country house
  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.

• GA100-163 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  In flat to gently undulating open pastureland. Aerial reconnaissance (ASGAP 190:90) revealed an enclosure which, on inspection, proved to be circular in plan (diam. c. 80m) and very poorly preserved. It was defined by a low scarp from SW through W to ENE; otherwise no visible surface trace survived. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 August 2019

Architectural heritage

• Sycamore Hill, farm house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached farm house, built c.1860, having three-bay single-storey double gable-fronted façade, with dormer windows to gables, and projecting flat-roofed porch. Side elevations have projecting gabled bay to middle, with dormer window to gable, and recessed two-bay two-storey part to rear. Pitched slate roofs with cut-stone chimneystacks. Dressed limestone walls with plinth. Dressed limestone surrounds, those to ground floor of front and of front half of side elevations having limestone label-mouldings. Timber sliding sash windows throughout, four-over-six pane to first floor. six-over-eight pane to ground floor, and four-over-four pane to rear two bays. Porch has carved limestone cornice and plinth, and panelled timber door with overlight, and timber sliding sash two-over-three pane sidelights to side walls. Decorative double-leaf cast-iron gates to site entrance, with square-profile rusticated cut limestone piers and dressed limestone quadrant walls.

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 Sycamorehill, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Sycamorehill · Gort an Daingin

Area

1,180,644 m² (118.06 ha, 291.74 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Laurencetown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

397 people lived in 141 households in the Laurencetown electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kylemore, Lismanny, Oghil Beg, Tirrooaun

Placenames

Sycamorehill 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.