Alloon Upper

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Alloon Upper, from 139 m² to 155,828 m² (15.58 ha, 38.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Alloon Upper 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.

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  to demolish existing porch and extend and disconnect existing waste water treatment system, renovate and extend existing private dwelling house and install waste water treatment system, renovate and extend existing private garage store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 87.02 sqm (extension), 51.55 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25104

• 21 Nov 2022Conditional

  to construct toilet facilities to include all associated site works for catholic church. Gross floor space of proposed works: 9.30 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 221181

• 10 Feb 2020Conditional

  for a dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment, along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 249.50 sqm, Garage - 73.20 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20153

• 20 Jan 2020Conditional

  to change existing carparking facilities at the front of the school to include 1. Separate designated drop off and pick up areas for school buses and cars, 2. Visitor and teacher parking, 3. Construction of a wall to separate drop off and pick up area from the main road, 4. Construction of a new front boundary wall, 5. Construction of a new footpath, lighting and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1015 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2046

• 5 Apr 2019Unconditional

  to extend existing car parking area to include all associated signs and works (Gross floor space 272.25sqm). Previous Planning Ref: 13/780

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 19509

• 13 Jun 2017Conditional

  to construct a canopy to provide shelter above classroom entrance/exits, and to erect the school name on the external west-facing wall (gross floor space 138sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17856

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 Alloon Upper.

Recorded monuments

• GA073-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Circular rath (D 39m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. A gap (Wth 3m) at S could be original. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA073-003 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In gently rolling grassland just N of the Clonbrock River. Almost circular rath (D 35m), in fair condition, defined by a bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA073-004 Church
  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

• Handball alley, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding mass-concrete handball alley, built c.1950, now disused. Rectangular plan with higher playing wall to north end, and sloping side walls. Square-headed entrance opening to south, partially blocked up. Remains of iron posts to top of rear and side walls. Set back from road gathering space to front and fieldstone wall to adjacent field.

• Catholic Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, church/chapel, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached limestone-built cruciform-plan Gothic-Revival Roman Catholic church, erected c.1875, having eight-bay nave, three-stage bell tower recessed to re-entrant corner of nave and east transept, gabled porch to west transept, and twentieth-century flat-roof sacristy to south-west re-entrant corner of nave and west transept, gabled porch to west elevation of nave. Altar at west end of nave. Pitched natural slate roof with stone copings and stone cross finials to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Crenellated parapet to tower, having plain gargoyles to corners, and pyramidal spire. Squared random rubble stone walls with sloped stone plinth course, and having moulded string course between upper stages of tower. Pointed-arch windows with stained glass, five-light to south gable, three-light to transept gables and two-light elsewhere, having interlace with quatrefoils to upper parts, chamfered surrounds and sills, and hood-mouldings. Slightly projecting gabled centrepiece to north gable with twin pointed-arch doorways having roll-moulded surrounds springing from colonettes with plinths and set into pointed-arch recess with similar surround, with replacement double-leaf timber battened doors. Decorative quatrefoil detail above doorways. Blocked-up round-headed windows flanking upper part of entrance feature. Pointed-arch doorway to tower east face having moulded surround and timber door. Tower has double-light lancet window to north face having label-moulding, second stage has quatrefoil lights and top stage has pair of pointed-arch louvered lights. Interior has pointed arches to transepts with ashlar limestone surrounds, marble altar furniture, carved timber Stations of The Cross, arch-braced timber A-framed truss roof on corbals and with hanging posts. Set back from road with stone piers and decorative metal gates to north, south and east and rendered boundary wall with rubble coping.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Alloon Upper.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Alloon Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Alloon Upper · Alúin Uachtarach

Area

1,536,683 m² (153.67 ha, 379.72 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacward, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Ballymacward, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymacward electoral division: 316 people in 113 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alloon Lower, Alloonbaun, Ballymacward, Esker, Garrymore, Hampstead, Lisloughlin, Mountventure

Placenames

Alloon Upper 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.