Birmingham Demesne

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Birmingham Demesne, from 97 m² to 741,957 m² (74.2 ha, 183.34 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 Birmingham Demesne 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 Jun 2026Conditional

  for 1.demolition of the existing substandard dwelling house. 2. Construction and increasing the set back distance of a new dwelling house. 3. Construction of a garage. 4. Installation of a treatment system, percolation area and all associated site

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660874

• 2 Apr 2026N/a

  sought to reconstruct the existing derelict dwelling house, and construct extensions to the existing derelict dwelling house, construct garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660501

• 4 Mar 2024Conditional

  for instream habitat restoration works in the Nanny River: including the addition of spawning gravel, random boulders and the excavation of pools. The development will include riparian buffer fencing, tree planting and installation of a solar drinking trough along the Nanny River. The NIS has been submitted with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460226

• 25 Nov 2019Conditional

  of dwelling house and garage as built, as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: House - 151.6 sqm, Garage - 19.6 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191825

• 31 May 2018Conditional

  of existing dwelling house and domestic garage including treatment plant and all associated services on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained 204 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18733

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 Birmingham Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• GA030-014 Country house
  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.

• GA030-015 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland, formerly part of Birmingham Demesne. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as both a 'Castle' and a 'Court'. What survives is an overgrown rectangular platform of earth and stone (L 48m, Wth 40m) defined by a steep scarp (H c. 3-4m). On the crest of the scarp are the intermittent foundation lines of a wall; probably a bawn. The outlines of at least five conjoined rectangular buildings are identifiable along NE side. A separate rectangular building is visible in S corner, immediately outside the bawn wall. Traces of a collapsed vault are visible within it, suggesting that this may be the remains of a tower. 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

• GA030-015001 Bawn
  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.

• GA030-016 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a slight rise in level farmland. An unenclosed irregularly shaped area (N-S 30m, E-W 13.5m) occupied by a dense concentration of small set stones, indicating graves oriented SE-NW. In W sector, many of the graves are obscured by field clearance. 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

• GA030-016001 Ringfort - rath
  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

• Birmingham House, house, 1750–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached square-plan three-bay two-storey country house, built c.1760, over basement and having four-bay west elevation, five-bay east elevation, and full-height L-plan lean-to addition to south fronted by flat-roofed extension. Hipped skirt artificial slate roof, with rendered chimneystacks to shirt ridge at each end and are ramped above roof surface to add to pyramidal effect of roof. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Lime-rendered walls except for west which is cement rendered. Square-headed window openings throughout with tooled limestone sills, having timber sliding sash windows to front elevation, six-over-six pane to first floor and nine-over-nine pane to ground, nine-over-nine pane and some one-over-one pane to east elevation, and mainly replacement uPVC to other elevations, including round-headed stairs window to rear. Windows to front elevation spaced far apart giving unusual appearance. Entrance has round-headed limestone block-and-start doorcase with projecting keystone and having panelled timber door with moulded transom and curvilinear fanlight, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash sidelights, and fronted by limestone steps. Rear door is battened timber with overlight and apporached by steep flight of limestone steps. Yard buildings entered though segmental archway having tooled limestone voussoirs and jambs and standing slightly forward of rubble limestone walls, with square-headed pedestrian gate to one side having limestone block-and-start surround. Buildings make L plan with two-storey stables and coachhouse on east side and buildings of lesser importance on south. Those on east side have cement rendered walls with limestone architraves to windows and doors and block-and-start dressings to coachhouse, latter having segmental carriage arch and small slit opes with limestone surrounds. Buildings on south side have remains of lime rendering. Entrance gateway has square-plan ashlar limestone piers with plinths, frieze of paterae, cornices and pyramidal capstones, and support double-leaf cast-iron gates.

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 Birmingham Demesne, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_791 (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.

No address of the register names Birmingham Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Birmingham Demesne · Cluain na gCarbad

Area

1,520,069 m² (152.01 ha, 375.62 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Tuam Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

6,556 people lived in 2,346 households in the Tuam Rural electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bettyspark, Bracklagh, Cartronroe, Coolpark, Deerpark, Drum, Fear Beg, Fear More, Garrymore, Loughpark, Stripe, Stripe South

Placenames

Birmingham Demesne 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.