Galros West

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Galros West, from 7,403 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres) to 330,312 m² (33.03 ha, 81.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Galros West 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.

• 29 Aug 2022Conditional

  (I) THE EXISTING 80 METRE METEOROLOGICAL MAST, WHICH WAS ERECTED AS EXEMPTED DEVELOPMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLASS 20A, SCHEDULE 2, OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS 2001 (AS AMENDED), AND ALL ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS; AND (II) PERMISSION TO INCREASE THE HEIGHT OF THE EXISTING METEOROLOGICAL MAST FROM 80 METRES TO A HEIGHT OF 100 METRES. THE OPERATIONAL LIFETIME OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL BE UP TO FIVE YEARS. THIS PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 22444

• 10 Aug 2022N/a

  (I) THE CONTINUED OPERATION OF THE EXISTING 80 METRE METEOROLOGICAL MAST, WHICH WAS ERECTED AS EXEMPTED DEVELOPMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLASS 20A, SCHEDULE 2, OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS 2001 (AS AMENDED), AND ALL ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS; AND (II) THE INCREASE IN HEIGHT OF THE EXISTING METEOROLOGICAL MAST FROM 80 METRES TO A HEIGHT OF 100 METRES. THE OPERATIONAL LIFETIME OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL BE UP TO FIVE YEARS. THIS PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22401

• 30 May 2018Refused

  THE INSTALLATION OF APPROXIMATELY 12.5KM OF 38KV ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION LINE FROM THE PERMITTED (WIND FARM) SUBSTATION (OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REGISTER REFERENCE 14/188 & AN BORD PLEANALA REFERENCE PL19.244053) IN THE TOWNLAND OF STONESTOWN, COUNTY OFFALY TO THE EXISTING ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CLONDALLOW, COUNTY OFFALY. THE TRANSMISSION LINE WILL COMPRISE APPROXIMATELY 8.5KM OF UNDERGROUND LINE AND APPROXIMATELY 3.7KM OF OVERHEAD LINE. UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE WILL BE LOCATED WITHIN PRIVATE LANDS AND WITHIN THE PUBLIC ROADS NUMBERED N62, R439 AND THE L70152; WILL BE INSTALLED IN EXCAVATED TRENCHES OF APPROXIMATELY 1.2M IN DEPTH AND WILL INCLUDE ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND DUCTING, JOINT BAYS, COMMUNICATION CHAMBER BAYS, SHEATH LINK BOXES AND INSPECTION CHAMBERS; DIRECTIONAL DRILLING AT 1 NO. RAILWAY CROSSING ALONG THE N62, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS. OVERHEAD INFRASTRUCTURE WILL CONSIST OF 3 NO. POWERLINES SUSPENDED FROM WOODEN POLES WITH A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 16 METRES, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS. THIS PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) / ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (EIS) WHICH INCLUDES AN ASSESSMENT OF THE LIKELY IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, AS A WHOLE AND IN COMBINATION WITH THE RELEVANT OFF-SITE OR SECONDARY DEVELOPMENTS WHICH WILL OCCUR AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING THE WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT PERMITTED PURSUANT TO OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REGISTER REFERENCE 14/188 & AN BORD PLEANALA REFERENCE PL19.244053

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18230

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 Galros West.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Galros West.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Galros West, 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 Galros West.

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 Galros West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Galros West · Gallros Thiar

Area

1,467,087 m² (146.71 ha, 362.53 acres)

Civil parish

Eglish, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Eglish, the unit of the census

Census 2022

153 people lived in 57 households in the Eglish electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyslavin, Clongawny More, Cloonacullina, Clooneen, Cush, Galros East

Placenames

Galros West 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.