Bouluskeagh or Flowerhill

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bouluskeagh or Flowerhill, from 257 m² to 363,714 m² (36.37 ha, 89.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Bouluskeagh or Flowerhill 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Bouluskeagh or Flowerhill 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 the townland of Bouluskeagh or Flowerhill.

Recorded monuments

• GA117-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in otherwise level grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m). A NNE-SSW running field boundary clipped it at W. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 July 2019

• GA117-009 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

• GA117-010 Bee-boles
  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.

• GA117-011 House - 18th/19th century
  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

• Moat Bridge or Riverstown Bridge, bridge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch limestone bridge, built c.1820, carrying road over Kilcrow River, with flood arches at remove to northeast. Dressed parapets, round arches, higher to middle eyes and having dressed voussoirs. V-cutwaters to upstream (north) elevation of bridge.

• Flowerhill House, country house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached country house, built c.1760, comprising three-bay three-storey central block over basement with slight breakfront having porch to front, flanked by three-bay two-storey block to west and four-bay two-storey block to east. Single-bay single-storey addition to east, two-storey return to rear at junction of main block and east wing, and canted porch to rear of main block. Single-bay two-storey pavilions to east and west of house, connected to rear corner of east wing by means of roughcast rendered screen wall. Pitched slate roofs to house, wings and return, with cement rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Tooled limestone string course above ground floor windows of west wing, suggesting that wings were originally single storey and at different times raised to two storeys, window openings of west wing being square and those of east being taller. Segmental-headed window opening to breakfront, set within Diocletian window-style recess, with cut limestone imposts and outsized rendered brick keystone. Square-headed openings elsewhere, with tooled limestone sills and mainly timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor and to first floor of east wing, three-over-six pane to first floor of middle block and three-over-three pane to first floor of west wing. and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Some replacement uPVC windows to all elevations. Porch has flat roof with decorative cut limestone balustrade comprising panelled pilasters to all corners, with chamfered plinth and moulded cornice to walling between which is piereced with round openings having moulded surrounds. Segmental-headed doorway with replacement uPVC door, fanlight and sidelights, with square-headed windows to side walls, also having replacement uPVC windows. Porch to rear has flat roof, margined half-glazed timber panelled door with geometric overlight, flanked by six-over-six pane timber sliding sash sidelights. Carved limestone balustrades to basement areas to front and rear elevations, with flight of steps with nosing. Hipped slate roofs and rendered walls to pavilions, with round-headed window openings to first floor of gables facing house and lunettes to ground floor, with timber frames and having limestone sills to first floor. Round-arched opening with cut-stone block-and-start surround to rubble limestone curtain wall. Courtyard to north-east of house. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding with loft accessed by flight of external steps to gable, pitched slate roof, polychrome rubble limestone walls, three segmental-arched vehicular entrances, one with metal door, one with double-leaf corrugated-metal door, and one having square-headed doorway with limestone lintel set within partly blocked up opening, all with roughly dressed voussoirs. Square-headed window with timber lintel, tooled limestone jambs, cut limestone sill and timber sliding sash window with metal bars. Second outbuilding is L-plan, having multiple-bay single-storey range with square-headed door and window openings with timber lintels, yellow brick jambs and cut-stone sills, and square-headed vehicular entrannce with yellow brick voussoirs. Range at right angles is two-bay two-storey with square-headed window openings to first floor with cut-stone sills, and segmental-arch vehciular entrances to ground floor with yellow brick voussoirs. Cast-iron double-leaf gate to road entrance set to dressed limestone piers.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bouluskeagh or Flowerhill.

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

Name

Bouluskeagh or Flowerhill · Both Loiscthe

Area

1,293,635 m² (129.36 ha, 319.66 acres)

Civil parish

Tynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Pallas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Pallas electoral division: 406 people in 140 households; 83% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhanry, Cappacuilla, Cloonnagark, Coolpowra, Foolagh, Lismihil, Lissanard East, Moat

Placenames

Bouluskeagh or Flowerhill 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.