# Galros West, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Eglish, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish Gallros Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,467,087 m² (146.71 ha, 362.53 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 131,447 m² (13.14 ha, 32.48 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Eglish, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/eglish.md - Barony: Eglish - Electoral division: Eglish, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41314 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180680 - Centre: latitude 53.153352, longitude -7.897198 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 303613: 330,312 m² (33.03 ha, 81.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303613.md - Parcel 4649408: 325,328 m² (32.53 ha, 80.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4649408.md - Parcel 5770838: 168,972 m² (16.9 ha, 41.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5770838.md - Parcel 5276100: 93,923 m² (9.39 ha, 23.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5276100.md - Parcel 4739140: 26,991 m² (2.7 ha, 6.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4739140.md - Parcel 309981: 7,403 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309981.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 29 Aug 2022, Offaly County Council 22444: Conditional. Retention. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22444/0 - 10 Aug 2022, Offaly County Council 22401: N/a. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22401/0 - 30 May 2018, Offaly County Council 18230: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18230/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Galros West. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Galros West. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Galros West. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/galros-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/galros-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/galros-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyslavin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyslavin.md - Clongawny More: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clongawny-more.md - Cloonacullina: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloonacullina.md - Clooneen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clooneen.md - Cush: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cush-180549.md - Galros East: https://everytownland.com/offaly/galros-east.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/galros-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/galros-west