Galway

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Galway, from 2,028 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 131,311 m² (13.13 ha, 32.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Galway 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.

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

  the extension rear extension and front porch to the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 25379

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 Galway.

Recorded monuments

• LI011-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by scarped edge with external fosse and counterscarp earth-and-stone bank. Scarp (H 1.7m; Wth 4m), best preserved at NE, lowers along W side. Counterscarp bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.25m) survives SW->W and NE->E, and is best preserved at NE. Flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.5m) can be traced SW->NNW and NE->E. Bank and fosse quarried out at E with substantial drop from top of scarp (H 3.35m; Wth 7.5m) to base of excavation. Level interior, heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth, is accessible in places where cattle have trampled down overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI011-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by scarped edge, with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 3.4m) at E. Scarp (H 1.05m; Wth 2m), best preserved along E arc, lowers towards S (H 0.4m). Dry-stone field wall runs tangentially to site at W. Interior slopes down to E. Most of interior and enclosing element are covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Galway, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_547 (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 Galway with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Galway · Gallmhaigh

Area

346,724 m² (34.67 ha, 85.68 acres)

Civil parish

Askeaton, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Iveruss, the unit of the census

Census 2022

350 people lived in 125 households in the Iveruss electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyaglish, Ballynort, Ballyvaddock, Ballyvaddock, Issane

Placenames

Galway 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.