Land parcel 1979793

Area

371,390 m² (37.14 ha, 91.77 acres)

Buildings

23 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 9,841 m².

Zoning

G1 Recreation and Amenity (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective
C2.2 Enterprise Industry and Related Uses (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission for development which consists of: retention for temporary industrial unit (floor area 189m2) and ancillary site works at Parkmore West Business Park . This planning application was previously granted under pl. ref. 20/194

  Retention · Galway City Council, 2512

• 6 Sept 2024Conditional

  Permission for development which consists of; the construction and demolition of the temporary stables and the construction of permanent stables, pavilion, machinery and maintenance sheds, pre-parade ring as well as ancillary site works Permission is being sought for a period of 10 years An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and accompanies this planning application.

  Permission · Galway City Council, 2460279

• 22 Jul 2020Conditional

  Permission is sought for the development which will consist of a temporary single storey industrial building (gross floor area 189 sqm) and all ancillary site development works and services. The application is for a temporary planning permission for a period of 3 no. years.

  Permission · Galway City Council, 20194

• 10 Jun 2019Conditional

  Planning permission for the development of three parcels of land(01,02 and 03). The development consists of: 1. Demolition of toilet block, saddling stalls, turnstiles canopy and closure of entrance 'A' (536 sqm), 2. Parade ring, with winners enclosure and podium; 3. North parade ring hospitality and amenities building (560 sqm) and spectator viewing with associated external courtyard; 4. South parade ring dual aspect hospitality restaurant building with roof mounted external screen. (483 sqm); 5 West parade ring double sided spectator viewing terrace; 6) Modifications to existing weigh room/office building (total 263 sqm which includes an extension of 18 sqm) to provide improved participants facilities, reception space and steward room; 7 Unsaddling and wash down area; 8. Horse walk routes; 9 Pre-parade ring with 18 no. saddling boxes (5 no. enclosed 77 sqm) and spectator viewing terrace; 10. Refurbishment of the Millennium Grandstand Level 1 (1012 sqm) and extension/ new glazing line (97 sqm) to provide owners, trainers and members hospitality area; 11. Relocated replacement racecourse offices, associated car parking and electric vehicle charging point (352 sqm); 12. Extended service yard boundary and realignment of internal road; 13. All associated site development, signage, car parking, landscaping and servicing works

  Permission · Galway City Council, 19160

• 5 Apr 2019Conditional

  Permission to construct a 21 metre high multi- user lattice telecommunications structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fence compound, including new access track, together with associated ground equipment and associated site works

  Permission · Galway City Council, 19103

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 9 recorded monuments.

• GA082-011 Ringfort - cashel
  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.

• GA082-011001 Souterrain
  Description

  In flat pastureland close to E limits of Ballybrit racecourse. Very poorly preserved circ­ular cashel (D 36.5m) defined by a drystone wall over­-lain by a field wall. No visible trace survives of the 'Souterrains' marked in the interior on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1947). A CBG (GA082-011002-) occupies the interior (GA082-010001-). (Rynne 1990) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA082-011002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA082-011----). The interior has been in use as a graveyard since time of 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. Though still in use for general burial in 1970 (Topgr. Files, UCG), the name lisheen suggests that this was once restricted to children. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA082-012001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On open, gently undulating pastureland, now part of Ballybrit Racecourse. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Redmud Mc Thomus' (Nolan 1901, 115). A diminutive rectangular tower (L 9.17, Wth 4.4m), in fair condition, comprising four storeys: most of the upper storey and parapet are gone. The doorway, centrally placed in NE wall, opens into a lobby with a murder-hole above. This, in turn, gives access to spiral stairs (broken) in E corner, a small chamber in W side and an opposing doorway in SW wall. Stone vaults (also broken) existed between ground/1st floor, and 2nd/3rd floors. There is a fireplace in the NE wall on 2nd floor. The windows are all single-lights with circular or ogival heads. In contrast to the others, the masonry of SW wall is of poor quality. This, and the presence of doorways (one neatly blocked) in this wall on 2nd and 3rd floors, and projecting corbels on S and W corners, indicates that a second phase was intended. Whether this was of wood or ever actually built is open to question. A settlement cluster (GA082-012002-) is associated. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1 399-400; Anon. 1918, 99) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 14/1977).

• GA082-012002 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  To W of Ballybrit Castle (GA082-012002-). Though not shown on the published OS 6-inch maps, it is marked on the 1819 Grand Jury Maps and OS Fair Plans as an extensive settlement of houses and earthworks (info. GBCAS Files). What survives today ; is a series of bumps and hollows representing the remains of house platforms and field systems (CUCAP B61; 37, 39, 40). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 14/1977).

• GA082-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pastureland within the grounds of the Ballybrit racecourse. This circular rath (diam. 56m) was originally defined by an unusually low broad bank (Wth 8-10m; H 1m). In 1971 when the racecourse was widened the NW quadrant of the enclosing bank and part of the interior were removed under archaeological supervision (Waddell 1971, 73-9). The rest of the monument was undisturbed. A low L-shaped earthen mound noted in NW quadrant of the interior, prior to the works, proved to be the remains of a small double wall-faced drystone structure (max. dims. 4m E-W; 3.8m N-S; ) constructed of undressed limestone blocks. Its purpose was not obvious and its date was inconclusive as no finds were recovered from it. Slightly W of centre traces of a house (GA082-013001-) were evident, and E of this a Y-shaped earthen bank (av. Wth 2m; H 0.5m) appeared to be an internal division. Slight surface irregularities in the SW quadrant may have marked other structural remains and 5m to the S of the bank were the remains of another subrectangular structure (max. int. Wth 5m) (ibid., 73). No trace of a fosse was noted (ibid., 74). Finds included post-medieval pottery, a bronze spear butt and a hone stone. An enclosure (GA082-014----) lay 25m to the W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 30 August 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 14/1977).

• GA082-013001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the interior of a rath (GA082-013----). Just W of centre traces of a rectangular house (12m E-W; 6.5m N-S) are visible . (Waddell 1971, 73-9) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 August 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 14/1977).

• GA082-014 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pastureland within the grounds of the Ballybrit racecourse; some 25m to the W of a rath (GA082-013----). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1945-6) as a roughly semicircular enclosure defined by a bank from SSW through W to N. In 1971 when the racecourse was widened most of the monument was removed and only a short arc of the bank (L 5m; Wth 2m; H 0.4m) from SSW to WSW remained undisturbed. No trace of a fosse was evident. Excavation produced nothing but a single post-medieval pot sherd (Waddell 1971, 73-9). It was not possible to determine the original plan of the enclosure and there was no indication that it was ever more than a rough semicircle in plan (ibid., 74). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 30 August 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 14/1977).

• GA082-016 Anomalous stone group
  Description

  On flat open pastureland, now part of Ballybrit Racecourse. Until its removal in the 1960s or early 1970s, it consisted of 'an upright stone with an adjacent prostrate stone' which tradition held to be a mass-rock (Topgr. Files, UCG). No visible surface traces survive. (Anon. 1918, 99) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_496 (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.

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