Prospect Demesne
Prospect Demesne is a townland in the civil parish of Meelick, barony of Longford, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Prospect.
Parcel 1984163
- Area
- 31,649 m² (3.16 ha, 7.82 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Prospect Demesne
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
- Area
- 22.1 ha
- 55 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 31,649 m² (3.16 ha, 7.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Prospect Demesne, from 31,649 m² (3.16 ha, 7.82 acres) to 31,649 m² (3.16 ha, 7.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Prospect 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Prospect Demesne 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Prospect Demesne.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Prospect Demesne.
Architectural heritage
- Prospect, house, 1770–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house with dormer attic, built c.1775, having very slight, pedimented breakfront to front (north) elevation, and later full-height extension to west end, with two-bay west side elevation and projecting bay to rear elevation. Single-bay single-storey over basement addition to east end. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, two in pair to middle of five-bay section, gabled dormer windows with decoratively carved timber bargeboards to front elevation, and to pediment, with carved finial to latter. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front and mixed one-over-one, two-over-two and six-over-six pane windows elsewhere, some to rear in tripartite arrangements. Square-headed timber casement frames to dormer windows. Round-headed timber casement window to pediment. Round-headed doorway with painted carved stone Gibbsian surround, timber panelled door and fanlight, approached by cut limestone steps with nosings and cast and wrought-iron railings. Outbuildings to east of house with hipped tiled roofs and roughcast rendered walls. Road entrance to south with wrought-iron double-leaf gate, rendered piers and flanking walls. Rubble stone boundary walls.
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, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Prospect Demesne, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Prospect Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Prospect Demesne · Prospect
- Area
- 221,425 m² (22.14 ha, 54.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Meelick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Meelick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 296 people lived in 100 households in the Meelick electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derry, Gortnakilla, Lisfinny, Moyower
- Placenames
- Prospect 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.