Land parcel 1982814

Area

75,047 m² (7.5 ha, 18.54 acres)

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 589 m².

Zoning

G3 Recreation and Amenity (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective
R3 Residential (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective
O1 Reserved Master Plan (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments around it

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

• Murroogh House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with shallow full-height box-bays to end bays flanking flat-roofed porch, full-height bows added c.1850 to gable ends, slightly recessed three-bay side elevations. Six-bay rear elevation, middle two bays being narrower and recessed. Hipped slate roofs with cut-stone chimneystacks having rendered additions above, and cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered parapets and moulded render string courses to base of parapets of main roof and of porch. Painted roughcast rendered walls with render plinth. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows and painted sills and render reveals throughout, bipartite one-over-one pane to front elevation, six-over-six pane to bows and side elevations, and six-over-six pane, four-over-four pane and two-over-four pane to rear elevation. Render sill bands to box-bay windows. Square-headed door opening to side of porch having double-leaf timber door with moulded round-headed panels, and overlight. Square-headed door opening to rear elevation having timber battened door. Set within its own grounds and bounded by mature trees and hedgerow. Decorative cast-iron gates and circular-profile stone piers to site entrance, forming one half of level crossing 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).

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_497 (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.

Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.