Quarryhill

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Quarryhill, from 3,046 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) to 82,526 m² (8.25 ha, 20.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Quarryhill 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 Jan 2023Conditional

  of the following development: (a) Retain & complete an existing extension to rear of existing cottage (b) conversion of upper floor of cottage to habitable accommodation (c) single storey extension to front elevation (d) minor alterations to elevations of cottage (e) install a new wastewater treatment system with percolation area & (f) all associated external site works. Gross floor space of works to be retained 32.55sqm & gross floor space of proposed works 35.44sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2327

• 1 Mar 2022Refused

  to construct a domestic shed (57sqm) at the location of the existing shed (18sqm) of which some walls will remain and to install a sewage treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 57sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22271

• 14 Jun 2021Refused

  to retain the cottage, outbuilding and shed with site works, to extend the shed and to construct a dwelling house with well & sewerage system at above address. Gross floor space of work to be retained, cottage 49m2, outbuilding 40m2, shed 18.5m2, proposed house 100m2

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211050

• 28 Jun 2018Conditional

  for: (a) construction of a new dwelling, (b) Construction of a domestic garage/store, (c) Treatment system with percolation area, (d) new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 209sqm, Garage 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18891

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 Quarryhill.

Recorded monuments

• GA117-083 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in low-lying grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 32m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse from SW through N to NE. No visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives elsewhere due to the construction of farm buildings. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 March 2018

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1860–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron post box, c.1880, with VR (Victoria Regina) insignia and crown, set in rendered limestone wall. Door, replaced c.1920, bears SÉ monogram (Saorstát Éireann) and harp.

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 Quarryhill, about 1 in 10 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 Quarryhill.

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

Name

Quarryhill · An Seanbhaile Ard

Area

345,901 m² (34.59 ha, 85.47 acres)

Civil parish

Tynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Pallas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

406 people lived in 140 households in the Pallas electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonagh, Garraun, Lissanard West, Pallas, Reaghan

Placenames

Quarryhill 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.