Chelsea

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Chelsea, from 3,506 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres) to 225,495 m² (22.55 ha, 55.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Chelsea 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.

• 27 May 2026Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660837

• 24 May 2026Conditional

  for the demolition of existing dwelling house, proposed new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter & all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660818

• 7 Sept 2025Conditional

  for dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561268

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 210.91 sqm, Garage/fuel shed: 53.94 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21495

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 Chelsea.

Recorded monuments

• GA098-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Circular rath (D 31m), in fair condition, defined by a bank best preserved at S. Traces of stone revetment are visible from N through E to SSE. A small circular mound occupies the centre of the interior, to NW of which is a probable souterrain (GA098-075001-) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA098-075001 Souterrain
  Description

  In NNW sector of a ringfort (GA098-075----). What is visible is a grassy L-shaped hollow, its long axis (L 8.5m) running WNW-ESE. At its ESE end, it turns sharply to NNE (L 4.7m), following a NNE-SSW axis. It averages 3.5m in width and 0.65m in depth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA098-076 Mill - fulling
  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

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

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 Chelsea, about 1 in 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Chelsea.

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 Chelsea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Chelsea · Chelsea

Area

832,923 m² (83.29 ha, 205.82 acres)

Civil parish

Killallaghtan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Killoran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

288 people lived in 95 households in the Killoran electoral division. 98% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonnellan East, Brackloon, Gorteenawillin, Lissacullaun, Poppyhill, Poppyhill, Tooree, Tooreenard

Placenames

Chelsea 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.