Waterdale

212 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Waterdale, from 31 m² to 157,097 m² (15.71 ha, 38.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 54 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 Waterdale 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.

• 10 Oct 2025Conditional

  to construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage, a proprietary effluent treatment system, and ancillary site development works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561484

• 20 Nov 2023Conditional

  & Permission for changes to the original dwelling house design granted under Pl. Ref. No. 04/4715. Changes as described as follows: (i) Retention of Elevational Changes to the Dwelling House Design; (ii) Retention of Rear Extension to the Dwelling House; and (iii) Permission to complete the external site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361385

• 23 Dec 2022Refused

  to construct a garage, relocate site entrance, retain site boundaries & retain minor alterations of existing dwellinghouse. Gross floor area: 185.4 sqm & 60 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2261323

• 22 Oct 2022N/a

  to construct a garage, relocate site entrance, retain site boundaries and retain minor alterations of existing dwelling house. Gross floor area of proposed works: 185.4 sqm (dwelling house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2261063

• 21 Jul 2022Conditional

  of a dwelling and septic tank and associated drainage. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 74.91 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22897

• 21 Apr 2022N/a

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works 156.60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260378

• 22 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a 'Dwelling House, Sewage Treatment System and Domestic Garage, together with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works is; House 220 sqm & Garage 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211330

• 23 Jul 2020N/a

  to erect a dwelling, garage, treatment plant and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 203.55 msq & 45.00 msq

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201009

• 9 Jun 2020Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works 174.5 msq house & 60 msq Garage.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20707

• 30 Apr 2020Conditional

  to construct a new 2-storey single family dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all other associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200 sqm (House), 50 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20537

• 18 Mar 2020Refused

  to construct a new detached garage building with office space and associated ancillary works adjacent to an existing dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works; 69.3sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20349

• 23 Dec 2019N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 174.5 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 192039

• 7 Nov 2019Refused

  for the construction of a new detached garage building with office space and associated ancillary works adjacent to an existing dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 69.3 sqm (Office Space: 48.95 sqm, Garage/Storage: 20.35 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191738

• 14 Jun 2019Refused

  to construct a dwelling House, sewage treatment system and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 203 sqm (House), 60 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19907

• 15 May 2019Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling - 303 sqm, Garage - 60.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19726

• 31 Jan 2019Conditional

  to construct dwellinghouse, garage and associated services.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19142

• 6 Sept 2018Refused

  for a two storey house, effluent Treatment system, percolation area, associated building works and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works, 170sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181258

• 14 Sept 2017Conditional

  to erect dwellinghouse with attached garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated services (gross floor space (gross floor space 172.5sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171374

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 Waterdale.

Recorded monuments

• GA070-100 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. A circular barrow (D 56m), in fair condition, comprising a flat raised central platform (D 24.2m, H c. 1m) encircled by a wide internal fosse (Wth c. 5.5m), a berm and an external bank. (Wilde 1872, 60) 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

• GA070-101 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a slight rise in grassland. Poorly preserved densely overgrown roughly rectangular unenclosed burial ground (NW-SE 27m, NE-SW 17m). Only two small set stones are visible within the interior. 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 Waterdale.

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

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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_567 (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.

• Waterdale, Claregalway9 sales

Name

Waterdale · Eochaill

Area

2,720,024 m² (272 ha, 672.13 acres)

Civil parish

Claregalway, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Claregalway, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,388 people lived in 778 households in the Claregalway electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carheeny, Cloghaun, Gortadooey, Gortcloonmore, Liscananaun, Mullaghruttery

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Waterdale 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.