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Galros

Galros is a townland in the civil parish of Gallen, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Gallros.

Area
273.9 ha
677 acres
Land parcels
81
registered freehold, median 14,626 m² (1.46 ha, 3.61 acres)
Zoning
R2
Existing Residential
Planning
8
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

GalrosClonony MoreStonestownKillowney BegTonlemoneAttinkeeCloghanMagherabaneCornamonaCushClonony BegDrishoge or StrawberryhillCreggan and GlosterboyKilleenboyBallyloughan
1,000 m
119 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Galros, from 24 m² to 245,444 m² (24.54 ha, 60.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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.

Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

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

Nature and heritage

Designated sites and recorded monuments

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Galros.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Galros.

Architectural heritage

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).

Ground and risks

Radon, landslides, flooding

Radon
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, low (inferred).
Terrain model
LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1644 (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.

Homes sold

Property Price Register

No address of the register names Galros with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

The townland

Name
Galros · Gallros
Area
2,739,151 m² (273.92 ha, 676.86 acres)
Civil parish
Gallen, and its townlands
Barony
Garrycastle
Electoral division
Cloghan, the unit of the census
Census 2022
1,044 people lived in 375 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Attinkee, Ballyloughan, Ballyshane, Cloghan, Clonony More, Cush, Tonlemone
Placenames
Galros 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.