Poppyhill

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Poppyhill, from 145 m² to 213,455 m² (21.35 ha, 52.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Poppyhill 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.

• 8 Aug 2024N/a

  to (a) renovate and convert an existing barn to habitable accommodation with a single storey extension to the east elevation and works to include elevational alterations to the existing building, (b) installation of a waste water treatment system with soil polishing filter bed, (c) construction of a new site entrance, (d) demolish existing detached outbuilding/ fuel store and all associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 146.81 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition 42.34 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 24236

• 30 May 2024Conditional

  of dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system with percolation area and site entrances on revised site boundaries (from previously approved under plan. ref. no. 06/4652). Gross floor space of work to be retained 307.50 sqm (house) & 45.86 sqm (garage)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24145

• 20 Jul 2023Conditional

  to construct a new dwellinghouse with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360812

• 22 Sept 2022Conditional

  for the following development: (a) construction of new dwelling, (b) construction of domestic garage/store, (c) Wastewater treatment system with percolation area, (d) new site entrance, (e) all associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 72 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221064

• 26 May 2022Conditional

  (a) construction of a new dwelling, (b) construction of a domestic garage (c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) new site entrance and all associated site works . Gross floor space of proposed works house 214 sqm and garage 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22677

• 10 Sept 2020Conditional

  for development of a) construction of a new dwelling, b) construction of a domestic garage, c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area, c) new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works; 214sqm (house) & 60sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201281

• 23 Jun 2020Conditional

  for an entrance to an existing dwellinghouse.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20782

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 the townland of Poppyhill.

Recorded monuments

• GA098-128 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low hill in grassland. Subcircular rath (48m E-W; 40.5m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a bank from E to SW and from NW to NE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A silage pit has been built into the outer face of the bank at NW. A laneway borders the monument from SW to WNW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 March 2018

• GA098-129 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in grassland. Subcircular rath (34.4m E-W; 32.3m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a bank and fosse. The bank is visible from NE through E to SSW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse survives from NNE to SW. A stream surrounds the monument from N to NE and a modern trackway cuts through it at SW and E. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 March 2018

• GA098-140 Earthwork
  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.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Poppyhill.

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 Poppyhill, about 1 in 20 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 the townland of Poppyhill.

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

Name

Poppyhill · Poppyhill

Area

1,543,714 m² (154.37 ha, 381.46 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Killoran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

288 people lived in 95 households in the Killoran electoral division. 98% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinrooaun, Carrowreagh, Chelsea, Gorteenawillin, Killoran, Lissacullaun, Lissacullaun, Lowpark, Poppyhill

Placenames

Poppyhill 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.