Rosscahill West

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosscahill West, from 78 m² to 178,322 m² (17.83 ha, 44.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Rosscahill West 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.

• 5 Jun 2026Conditional

  for a change of dwelling house design from that previously permitted under planning permission ref. no. 24/60021 with all associated works and ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660901

• 15 Dec 2025Conditional

  for a side extension on previously granted plannng ref; 97/939 & to also retain alterations to an existing storage shed previously granted ref; 21/1967, including all associated site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561847

• 25 Nov 2025Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561727

• 21 Mar 2025Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.30 sqm(house), 60.00 sqm(house)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560304

• 12 Jan 2024Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 199.80 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460021

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  for 1. partial demolition of existing shed, 2. construct an extension onto the existing shed, 3. all associated site works .Gross floor space of proposed works 28.71 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211967

• 5 May 2021Unconditional

  for a dwellinghouse, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services (gross floor space house 173.7sqm; garage 44sqm)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 21742

• 1 Feb 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a detached dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and all associated site and service works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 292.47 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2195

• 4 Aug 2020Conditional

  will consist of the removal of an existing 12 metres telecommunication support structure together with telecommunications equipment on it and replacement with a new 20 metres telecommunications support structure (overall height of 21.5metres) carrying antennas, dishes associated equipment, together with ground based equipment cabinets and new fencing for wireless data and broadband services.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201082

• 29 Mar 2019Conditional

  for a change of use of existing dwelling house attic store to living accommodation with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 35.1 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19453

• 28 Jan 2019Conditional

  for extension to side of dwelling house, alterations to existing dwelling, waste water treatment system, percolation area, revised site boundaries with all associated site works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 108 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19107

• 7 Dec 2018Conditional

  for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house, to construct a new garage/shed, to replace existing septic tank system with a new waste water treatment system, and for the provision of a new residential vehicular access with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: (Extension) 85.3 sqm, (Garage) 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181770

• 17 Aug 2018Conditional

  to construct a detached dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system with all associated site works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works 280.76sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181178

• 28 Jun 2018Conditional

  of dwelling house, demolition of existing domestic garage/fuel store, proposed replacement domestic garage/fuel store and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 244.18 sqm. (garage/shed) 55 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18913

• 17 Nov 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a new 1 1/2 to 2-storey detached dwelling house (floor area of house 222.77sqm) and garage (floor area of garage 18.36sqm) including waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 222.77, Garage 18.36sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171653

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: Gortnandarragh Limestone Pavement SAC 001271
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gortnandarragh Limestone Pavement 001271

Recorded monuments

• GA068-062 Enclosure
  Description

  In an area of rough scrub and grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• Water pump, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1880. Banded shaft, fluted head, fluted doomed cap, cow's tail handle, moulded detail at junction between spout and neck with simple cast-iron bucket grip to spout. Set on an elevated concrete pedestal with concrete parapet wall and concrete steps to approach to side. Concrete water troughs to front and rear elevations. Located on roadside beside laneway to farm.

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 Rosscahill West, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rosscahill West.

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 Rosscahill West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rosscahill West · Ros Cathail Thiar

Area

1,312,836 m² (131.28 ha, 324.41 acres)

Civil parish

Killannin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Wormhole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,602 people lived in 844 households in the Wormhole electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doon, Fahy, Gortacarnaun, Gortnagroagh, Gortnahoon, Oakfield or Gortnandarragh, Pribbaun, Rosscahill East

Placenames

Rosscahill West 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.