Slieveroe

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slieveroe, from 83 m² to 153,653 m² (15.37 ha, 37.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Slieveroe 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.

• 2 Sept 2024Conditional

  for: (i) A new treated water storage tank (WST) with a storage capacity of 1,020m3 of approximately 470m2 and an overall height 7m (5.9m without safety railings); (ii) A new weather-proof enclosure (5m x 3.3m x 2.8m high) to house new booster pumps and local control panel; (iii) A designated area for the emergency power generator, fuel storage and integral bund; (iv) A new weather-proof enclosure (4m x 2.6m x 2.85m high) to house the secondary chlorination dosing system; (v) 29 no. solar panels to be mounted on the new storage tank roof slab (static & south-facing); (vi) Ancillary works, e.g. associated ground works; and (vii) Associated works including landscaping & biodiversity net gain. Gross floor space of proposed works: 499.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461150

• 5 Apr 2022Conditional

  to construct dwelling house along with domestic garage and treatment system with percolation area, and all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 248 sqm, Garage: 41 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22455

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  to revise house plans and site layout granted under PD 21/1408. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 261 sqm, Garage: 25.2 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22166

• 3 Aug 2021Conditional

  to construct dwelling house along with domestic garage, and treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works house 245 sqm and garage 31.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211408

• 6 Nov 2018Conditional

  comprising the construction of (i) a new treated water storage tank, (ii) a new weather-proof enclosure to house booster pumps and local control panel, (iii) a new weather-proof enclosure to house an emergency power generator, fuel storage and integral bund, (iv) ancillary development works and (v) associated temporary development works, including a temporary compound area for the construction period. Gross floor space of proposed works: 470.39sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: (Storage Tower) 36.32sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181580

• 27 Feb 2018Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, wastewater treatment system & percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works 231.65 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18225

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 Slieveroe.

Recorded monuments

• GA031-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in gently undulating grassland. Well-preserved circular rath (D 49.5m) defined by a bank and external fosse. There is an entrance causeway at S. 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

• GA031-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W c. 43m, N-S c. 40m) defined by a scarp and external fosse. No visible surface trace survives from W to N where quarrying has encroached upon the monument. According to local information, there was a 'tunnel' (possible souterrain) within the interior, beneath a large limestone slab. 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

• GA031-064001 Souterrain
  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.

• GA031-065 Enclosure
  Description

  On SW-facing slope in undulating grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular earthwork (c. 35m by c. 20m). What is visible is a very low circular platform (D 37m) defined by the faint outline of a fosse (Wth c. 8m). 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Slieveroe, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Slieveroe · An Sliabh Rua

Area

766,990 m² (76.7 ha, 189.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkerrin, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Shankill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

355 people lived in 131 households in the Shankill electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Ballaghduff, Glebe, Kilcornan, Lehinch, Marganure, Rockfield East, Rockfield West

Placenames

Slieveroe 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.