Tallowroe

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tallowroe, from 874 m² to 235,464 m² (23.55 ha, 58.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Tallowroe 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.

• 1 Sept 2023N/a

  for a domestic dwelling with domestic garage, treatment plant & percolation area & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23358

• 22 Aug 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage and a proprietary treatment system (gross floor space 138sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171267

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 Tallowroe.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-163 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rocky pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 165, no. 55) as a circular 'Earthen fort' (diam. c. 29m) defined by a bank, which was in a 'flattened condition, 12' wide [c. 3.6m] and 1' [c. 0.3] to 2' [c. 0.2m] high'. No visible surface trace of it survives but a curving field boundary may mirror its outline. There is a souterrain (GA096-163001-) in the centre of the interior. (Redington 1916a, 55) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 September 2018

• GA096-163001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the centre of a rath (GA096-163----). This inaccessible drystone-built chamber, of indeterminate length, runs NE-SW and is visible via a breach at NE. (Redington 1916a, 55; McCaffrey 1952, 165, no. 55) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 September 2018

• GA096-164 Megalithic structure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with attic, and having recent flat-roofed porch to front (north-east) elevation and flat roofed extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with low rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door. Rendered plinth wall to front of site with wrought-iron pedestrian gate, bounding small garden.

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 Tallowroe, about 1 in 5 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_797 (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 Tallowroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Tallowroe · An Talamh Rua

Area

1,489,879 m² (148.99 ha, 368.16 acres)

Civil parish

Killeeneen, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killeely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,929 people lived in 572 households in the Killeely electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brockagh, Caheradine, Caherbulligin, Caherfinesker, Caherfurvaus, Carheenadiveane, Coldwood or Foorkill, Moneyteige

Placenames

Tallowroe 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.