Land parcel 1982838

Area

334,051 m² (33.41 ha, 82.55 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

G1 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
S3 Community Culture and Institutional (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 19 Oct 2020Refused

  Permission for developments which will consist of 1. Proposed Public Realm masterplan and rehabilitation scheme for the existing estate external environment; including the restoration, improvement and augmentation of existing and new hard and soft landscape provisions. Significant supplementary planting enhanced facilitation of biodiversity, along with additional landscape connections to Merlin Woods and improved pedestrian permeability. 2. An integrated residential development, set within the enhanced landscape proposals consisting of 21 number two storey houses. The development will comprise of 2 no. blocks of terrace houses incorporating 6 no. 2 bed units, 1 no. block of terrace houses incorporating 5 no. 2 bed units,1 no. block of Terrace houses incorporating 8 no.2 bed units and 1 no. block of semi-detached houses incorporating 2 no. 2 bed units. Access will be provided from existing road network set within the proposed landscape rehabilitation masterplan. 3. All associated external hard and soft landscape works, connections to existing services and associated general site works.

  Permission, 21 homes · Galway City Council, 20268

• 3 Sept 2020Refused

  Permission for development which will consist of the relocation of 26 no. car park spaces, from the previously permitted location outside of the site ownership (Pl. Ref. No. 13/322), to a location within the site ownership, including subsequent alterations to site layout

  Permission, 1 home · Galway City Council, 20223

• 15 Jul 2020N/a

  Planning permission is sought for the residential development which will consist of 21 number two storey houses comprising of 2 No. blocks of Terrace houses incorporating 6 No. 2 Bed units, 1 No. block of Terrace houses incorporating 5 No. 2 Bed units, 1 No. Block of Terrace houses incorporating 8 No. 2 Bed units and 1 No. block of semi-detached houses incorporating 2 No. 2 Bed units, access from existing road network, associated hard and soft landscape works, connection to existing services and associated general site works

  Permission, 21 homes · Galway City Council, 20187

• 13 Feb 2020Conditional

  Planning permission is sought for the development of lands (c. 1.8HA) within the grounds of Merlin Park University Hospital. The Proposed development will comprise of a two storey, part single storey Community Nursing Unit/ residential care unit (c. 5,100sqm total Gross Floor Area (GFA)). The building comprises of 60 en-suite bedrooms, including a 10 bed dementia unit in the single storey block, with associated resident accommodation including dining rooms, residents areas, visitors room and family overnight room, treatment rooms, hairdresser's salon etc.; Internal courtyard and balcony spaces, back of house areas, staff accommodation and ancillary offices, demolition of existing buildings on site including a carpenter's workshop (280sqm GFA), storerooms (95sqm GFA) and vacant former nurses accommodation building (67sqm GFA) (total area of demolition 442sqm GFA) and construction of replacement carpenters workshop (286sqm GFA) and 4 no. storerooms (Total GFA of 103.5sqm). Permission is also sought for associated landscaping, services yard including waste marshalling area (49sqm) and ESB substation (15sqm), and all associated site and development works, including connection to existing water supply on Merlin Park Lane. The total GFA of the overall development is 5,553.5sqm GFA.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway City Council, 2033

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 3 recorded monuments.

• GA094-023 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a short rise in the former demesne of Merlin Park House. This Nat. Mon., known as 'Doughiske Castle' until the mid-18th C, was in existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of Stephan Lynch (Nolan 1901, 113). It consists of a well-preserved four-storey rectangular tower (L 8.95m, Wth 7.85m) over a basement. A doorway, centrally placed in E wall, gives access, via a lobby, to ground floor, to spiral stairs in SE corner and to basement stairs in NE. There are subsidiary chambers and latrines to S of the main rooms on ground and 1st floors and an intramural passage in same position on 2nd floor. Stone vaults exist between basement/ground floor and 2nd/3rd floors. Fireplaces occur in N wall of the basement, 2nd, and 3rd floors. Two small chambers (one concealed) occupy the thickness of the vault between the 2nd/3rd floors. The gabled roof contained a garret and had wall-walks with machicolations at parapet level on N, S and W walls. Apart from the horizontal gun slits on ground floor, all the windows are either single or double lights with ogival heads. A sheela-na-gig (GA094-023001-) figure is carved onto the spandrel of a singe-light ogee-headed window on 2nd floor of S wall. A later extension adjoined at E, where traces of a high pitched roofline, a doorway inserted off the spiral stairs and a raised platform indicate a former two-storeyed building, possibly of 17th-C date. (Lynch Athy 1914, 146-52; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 330) 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/revision: 29 May 2012 This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 609.

• GA094-023001 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  Discovered in 2002 by Martin Fitzpatrick (Freitag 2004, 138), this sheela-na-gig figure is carved onto the spandrel of singe-light ogee-headed window on the second floor of the S wall of Merlin Castle (GA094-023----). Described by Freitag (ibid.) as an ‘unusual figure because sitting upside down, below decorative motif; in opposite corner there is a six-petal marigold. Round head with facial features discernible; breasts indicated; both arms straight and in front of body, hands joined to touch long vertical slit indicating vulva’. See attached screenshot of 3D model of Sheela-na-gig created by Digital Heritage Age. 3D model can be accessed on the Sketchfab website at: https://skfb.ly/68uyw Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 29 May 2012

• GA094-144 Midden
  Description

  In pastureland c. 50m to the NNW of Merlin Castle (GA094-023----). This midden, consisting of a dense concentration of oyster, winkle and mussel shells, came to light during the removal of topsoil. It was roughly circular in plan (diam. c. 10m) and was exposed at a depth of 0.3-0.8m below the sod cover. A smaller concentration of shells (diam. c. 4m) with some animal bones and teeth was visible c. 20m to the E. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 3 March 2017

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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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.