Walshtown

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Walshtown, from 1,254 m² to 133,214 m² (13.32 ha, 32.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Walshtown 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.

• 2 Oct 2025Conditional

  for construction of an extension to the front [south elevation] of an existing single storey dwelling with minor elevational alterations to the existing dwelling to include the removal of the flat roof over the side annex and extrusion of the existing hipped roof over same; retention of the existing domestic garage with permission sought for the removal of the metal roof sheeting and replacement with a new slate roof to match existing dwelling and all associated external site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25261

• 20 Dec 2022Conditional

  for the following development; (a) Construction of a new dwelling (b) Construction of a domestic garage/store (c) Wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) New site entrance and (e) All associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 244sqm (House), 58.33sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221246

• 17 Jun 2022Conditional

  to construct: New dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, create new site entrance and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 372.81 sqm (dwelling) 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22782

• 13 Apr 2018Conditional

  to construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, create new site entrance and all associated site ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works dwelling 275.40m2, garage 60m2

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18452

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 Walshtown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Walshtown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Walshtown, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Walshtown · Baile na mBreatnach

Area

1,051,382 m² (105.14 ha, 259.8 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Kiltormer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

538 people lived in 190 households in the Kiltormer electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Addergoole, Ardberreen, Ballyvaheen, Corbally Beg, Derreenboy, Englishtown, Gortavoher, Knockaun

Placenames

Walshtown 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.