Woodlawn

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodlawn, from 199 m² to 248,462 m² (24.85 ha, 61.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Woodlawn 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.

• 3 Jun 2026Conditional

  for change of house design from that granted under planning ref 22/604 (extended under planning ref # 26/11) to include all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26129

• 21 Jan 2026Unconditional

  of pl. ref. 22/604 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: 193.25 sqm (House) & 53.94 sqm (Garage/fuel shed)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 2611

• 21 Jan 2026Unconditional

  of pl. ref. 22/605 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: 180.42sqm, Garage: 53.94sqm

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 269

• 7 Dec 2023N/a

  of change of use of primary school to four apartments, two three bedroom, two one bedroom and all associated site work. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 268.09 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2361465

• 12 May 2023Refused

  to construct 4 dormer style dwelling houses with proprietary treatment plant

  Outline permission · Galway County Council, 23194

• 17 Nov 2022Refused

  for the renovation & development of a back garden single storey roofless stone structure - the 'Old Dispensary' into a two storey dwelling with coaching & retreat practice spaces with associated hard & soft landscaping, a new waste treatment system, a renovated vehicular entrance gateway, a new parking area & all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works 98 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221178

• 13 Oct 2022Conditional

  for minor alteration to existing front door, roof element, minor alterations to existing dwelling floor plan to reconfigure layout into a granny flat & alterations to existing North West, South West, North East elevations to suit. Plus single & two storey extension to the South West of the domestic dwelling to house new family living quarters including alterations & additions to North West, South West, North East & South East elevations, domestic garage, replacement & repositioning of upgraded treatment plant & percolation area to include all associated site works.Gross floor space of proposed works 300.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261026

• 10 May 2022Conditional

  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: 180.42sqm, Garage: 53.94sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22605

• 10 May 2022Conditional

  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: 193.25 sqm (House) & 53.94 sqm (Garage/fuel shed)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22604

• 17 Oct 2019Refused

  for development consisting of: Demolition of slatted shed and construction of mixed-use centre in three interconnecting one and two blocks with pitched roof, consisting of (a) two storey commercial/residential centre including a convenience shop, coffee shop/meeting area, consulting rooms at ground floor (258sqm.) and caretakers residence and four guest bedrooms at first floor (220sqm.) and (b) 15 residential units in 2 numbers one and two storey blocks (1244sqm.) consisting of 4 x 1 b/r, 5 x 2 b/r, 6 x 3 b/r units. The proposed development is situated along the R359 on the attendant grounds of the protected structure Woodlawn House, RPS161, and RMP GA086-241 and is approx. 0.95 km from Woodlawn House. Gross works floor space 1722sqm. Gross demolition space 320sqm. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1722 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 320 sqm

  Permission, 6 homes · Galway County Council, 191606

• 15 Mar 2018N/a

  for the demolition of slatted cattle shed and construction of a mixed-use centre in 3 interconnecting one and two storey blocks with pitched roofs consisting of a) a two storey commercial centre including a convenience shop, coffee shop/meeting area, consulting rooms at ground floor (258 sqm) with a caretakers accommodation and four guest bedrooms at first floor (220 sqm), b) 15 residential units in 2 numbers one and two storey blocks (1244 sqm) consisting of 4x1 bed, 5x2 bed, 6x3 bed units. The proposed development is situated along the R359 on the attendant grounds of the protected structure Woodlawn House, RPS No. 161 and RMP No. GA086-241 and is approx. 0.95 km from Woodlawn House. Gross floor space of proposed works 1722 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition 320 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18306

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 Woodlawn.

Recorded monuments

• GA073-157 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight rise in a recently planted forest. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA073-158 Kiln - lime
  Description

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• GA086-239 Country house
  Description

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• GA086-240 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in woodland, formerly demesne land. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m) but shown on 3rd ed. (1947) as a circular depression (D c. 35m). The area has been quarried out and no visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA086-241 Country house
  Description

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• GA086-242 Fish-pond
  Description

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• GA086-243 Icehouse
  Description

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• GA086-244 Enclosure
  Description

  On a ridge within the former Woodlawn Demesne. Poorly preserved circular enclosure (D c. 50m) defined by a scarp. Much obscured by modern afforestation, the monument may be damaged in the future by tree-felling. 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

• GA086-245 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a rise in grassland within the former Woodlawn Demesne. Well-preserved but densely overgrown circular rath (D 32.5m) defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. There is an entrance gap at ESE. A number of hollows are visible within the interior and a low bank (L 4.2m) at WNW is probably upcast from quarrying. 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

• GA086-246 Enclosure
  Description

  Some 50m SW of a church (GA086-150001-). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m), but evidently partially removed by the time of 3rd ed. (1947) when only W section was represented. All that survives is a scarp (L 32m) from SW through W to NW; the E section was apparently levelled during construction of the adjacent road. 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

• GA086-247 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland, formerly demesne land. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). The area has been extensively quarried and no visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA086-248 Enclosure
  Description

  In woodland within the former Woodlawn Demesne. A very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (N-S 27.3m, E-W 25.3m) defined by a scarp. A field boundary cuts the monument at NNW and NNE, and no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives to N of it. 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

• GA086-249 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

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• GA086-250 Enclosure
  Description

  In woodland within the former Woodlawn Demesne. Very poorly preserved oval enclosure (NNE-SSW 17.5m, NW-SE 14.3m) defined by an overgrown and much-quarried out scarp. A rectangular depression within the interior may also be the result of quarrying. According to local tradition, Diarmuid and Grainne spent a night here during their 'flight'. 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

• GA086-251 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

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Architectural heritage

• Woodlawn, steward's house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey steward's house, built c.1870, having full-height projecting bay to front elevation with full-height canted-bay window, lean-to verandah to front re-entrant corner, and full-height return to rear. Now derelict. Pitched and hipped slate roofs, with terracotta ridge crestings, red brick chimneystacks and carved timber bargeboards. Red brick walls with chamfered cut limestone plinth. Brick walls to verandah with pointed arcade. Square-headed window openings with chamfered brick surrounds and limestone sills, and having remains of one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Located amongst outbuildings to the rear (west) of Woodlawn House.

• Woodlawn, stables, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Multiple-bay single-storey stables, built c.1860, rebuilt after fire c.1910. Now derelict. Two-bay two-storey workers' house attached to north end of range, with three-bay return and two-bay single-storey addition to west gable of return. Ruinous remains of multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to west of worker's house, and to east of stables. Pitched slate roofs to stables, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings, some with replacement timber windows, some blocked, square-headed door openings some with remains of timber battened half doors, some blocked. Pitched slate roofs to workers' house, rendered eaves course, lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and remains of four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Blocked square-headed door opening to north elevation, with blocked square-headed sidelights with cut stone sills. Rubble stone boundary wall to yard, with cut and tooled limestone piers. Set to rear of Woodlawn House.

• Woodlawn, country house, 1740–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Palladian-style country house comprising three-bay three-storey central block built c.1760, having slightly advanced end bays and projecting tetrastyle Ionic portico to entrance bay, remodelled c.1860 and flanked by four-bay two-storey wings having projecting pedimented end bay to each wing. Now disused. Hipped slate roofs, gabled to pediments, cut limestone chimneystacks with quoins and corbelled cornices and ceramic chimneypots, cut limestone balustraded parapet with carved pinnacles and corbelled cornice to central block, cut limestone cornice and frieze to wings, and cut limestone parapets with block modillions to pedimented bays. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, with vermiculated rusticated limestone quoins to first floor of central block, rusticated limestone walls to ground floor of central block, rendered walls with cut limestone rusticated quoins to pedimented bays, and cut limestone sill course to first floor. All window openings to entrance front are set within carved limestone surrounds. Central block has tripartite openings to end bays, ground floor of each end bay having segmental pediment and engaged Doric columns to slightly advanced middle light, and flanked by Doric pilasters, with square-headed openings now boarded up, first floor of each end bay has balconette to middle light with balustrade having scrolled bracket supports, and segmental-headed windows set within recessed surrounds, and top floor of end bays have square-headed shouldered and kneed surrounds to each light with raised panels between. Remains of one-over-one and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Wings have tripartite windows to pedimented bays, ground floor having Venetian-style windows, middle light slightly advanced and having engaged square-plan Doric columns, flanked by Doric pilasters and having with moulded capitals and cornices. Similar window to pedimented projection in east elevation of house. Square-headed openings elsewhere to front façade of wings, first floor openings having pilasters and panelled aprons, decorative brackets below sill course corresponing to pilasters, and ground floor openings having moulded surrounds and cornices. Round-headed recesses to first floor of west elevation, having Diocletian openings to top and square-headed windows to bottom separated by limestone panels. Ground floor openings of west elevation have moulded surrounds. Round-headed window opening to front bay of east elevation, with pilasters and moulded archivolt. Timber shutters to wings and to first floor of central block. Tooled limestone sills throughout. Carved limestone tetrastyle Ionic portico has dentillated cornice with balustrade forming balconette, plain frieze and fluted columns with responding pilasters, and cut limestone steps with nosings. Round-headed door opening with round-headed sidelights, all with carved limestone surrounds. Cut limestone walls to interior of portico, with round-headed niches to side walls. Replacement door. Cut limestone plinth wall with decorative cast-iron railings and cut limestone piers, with carved limestone taller terminating piers to side boundaries of house. Set in own demesne, with outbuildings to west, and entrance gates and lodge to east.

• Woodlawn, icehouse, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding circular-plan domed icehouse, built c.1780. Now derelict and somewhat overgrown. Rubble limestone walls to base, and brick vaulted domed roof. Located on slight rise in Woodlawn demesne.

• Woodlawn, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gateway to Woodlawn, erected c.1830, comprising wrought-iron double-leaf vehicular gate with arrow-head points and spikes below, flanked by square-profile cut limestone channelled piers with copings, panels to frieze above, carved cornices and ball finials. In turn flanked by similar wrought-iron railings set on cut limestone plinths, in turn flanked by matching piers. Rendered quadrant walls to road, having plinths and copings, and terminating piers matching others.

• Woodlawn, gate lodge, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1830, having pedimented entrance porch to front (south) elevation. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with rock-faced rusticated chimneystacks with carved cornices, timber corbelled eaves course, and some lead flashing. Cut limestone pediment to porch, with pulvinated upper rails. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with tooled limestone quoins and plinth course. Square-headed window openings with raised tooled limestone surrounds and cut limestone sills, windows boarded. Square-headed door opening set in segmental-headed recess, with chamfered limestone surround and timber panelled double-leaf door, and cut limestone step. Set inside entrance gates to Woodlawn.

• Woodlawn, folly, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding circular-plan folly tower, built c.1900. Unroofed. Partly rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed door opening with dressed stone voussoirs. Boundary wall to demesne attached to south elevation of tower. Sited adjacent to road and adjacent to gate lodge and entrance to Woodlawn demesne.

• Woodlawn, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay three-storey towerhouse-style gate lodge, built c.1850. Now vacant. Roof not visible. Rubble stone parapet walls with dressed limestone string course and copings. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings, pointed triple-light to ground floor, double pointed to first floor and single squre-headed to top storey, all with chamfered stone surrounds and label-mouldings. Entrance gates comprising pointed arch opening with double-leaf cast-iron gate, set in rubble limestone walls with crenellations having dressed stone copings, dressed stone string course and impost course, and cut-stone voussoirs. Rubble limestone flanking walls, with crenellations and dressed stone string course, with segmental-headed opening having rubble stone voussoirs and dressed stone sill. Situated to south of Woodlawn demesne.

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 Woodlawn, 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 Woodlawn.

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

Name

Woodlawn · Móta

Area

5,703,555 m² (570.36 ha, 1,409.38 acres)

Civil parish

Killaan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Killaan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

572 people lived in 200 households in the Killaan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beefield, Carrowholla, Carrowmore, Cloonahinch, Cloverpark, Coppanagh, Gortlemon, Greenhills, Killaan, Radullaan, Tooreen

Placenames

Woodlawn 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.