Pallas
Pallas is a townland in the civil parish of Tynagh, barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is An Phailís.
Parcel 2041918
- Area
- 25,095 m² (2.51 ha, 6.2 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
- Pallas
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- 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
- 258.3 ha
- 638 acres
- Land parcels
- 77
- registered freehold, median 25,095 m² (2.51 ha, 6.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pallas, from 640 m² to 329,808 m² (32.98 ha, 81.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 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 Pallas 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
10 Sept 2026N/a
for; (a) demolition of an open store area to the rear of an existing dormer dwelling, (b) construction of a single storey extension to the rear (west) elevation & side (south) elevation of the existing dormer dwelling & (c) all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26226
27 Nov 2025Conditional
to construct: 1) A new two storey extension to side of existing house, 2) Minor alterations and refurbishment to existing house, 3) A new treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561742
14 May 2024Conditional
to reconstruct and extend private dwelling house to include all associated site works at the above location. Gross floor space of proposed works: 53.15 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24127
10 Mar 2023Conditional
(a) the construction of a domestic garage and pump house, (b) changes to dwelling house previously granted under planning ref. no. 04/3305 (c) for the demolition of the existing sunroom to dwelling house (d) the construction of an extension to the side of the existing Dwelling House, (e) to insert a roof window into the existing roof and all associated site services
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360226
9 Jun 2022Refused
for; a) construction of a new dwelling, b) construction of a domestic garage, c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area, d) new site entrance and, e) all associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 254 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22752
4 Nov 2019Conditional
for (a) to construct a one bedroom Granny Flat connected to the side of the existing dwelling house, new treatment unit and percolation area and all associated services, (b) retain dwelling house and all associated site services on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of proposed works: 71 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 176 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191722
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 Pallas.
Recorded monuments
- GA117-077 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a hillock in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 29m) defined by a scarp and external fosse; the latter is visible from SE through S to W. A field bank cuts through the monument from NE to SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 December 2017
- GA117-078 Castle - tower house
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. This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 462.
- GA117-078001 Bawn
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.
- GA117-078002 House - 17th 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.
- GA117-078003 House - 17th 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.
- GA117-078004 Maltings
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.
- GA117-079 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
- Pallas, walled garden, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Rubble limestone walled garden, built c.1800, currently not in use. Elliptical-arched vehicular entrance to north wall, with dressed limestone voussoirs and keystone. Remains of single-storey garden building with pitched roof and rubble limestone walls to east wall of garden. Wrought-iron double-leaf gate elsewhere, set to rubble 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Pallas, 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 the townland of Pallas.
- 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
- Pallas, Tynagh5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Pallas · An Phailís
- Area
- 2,583,420 m² (258.34 ha, 638.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tynagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Pallas, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 406 people lived in 140 households in the Pallas electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brackery North, Cappacur, Connet, Gortnasillagh, Lissanard West, Quarryhill, Racecourse, Reaghan
- Placenames
- Pallas 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.