Pallas

125 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pallas, from 59 m² to 180,645 m² (18.06 ha, 44.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 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.

• 23 May 2023Conditional

  to construct a new dwellinghouse with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360545

• 10 Mar 2023Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360229

• 7 Jul 2022Refused

  a new dwelling house and connect it to an existing septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.Gross floor space of proposed works 205.40sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260697

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct a private dwelling house, a domestic garage and sewerage treatment system with all other site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 264 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191533

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 Pallas.

Recorded monuments

• GA060-178 Enclosure
  Description

  On level ground. A poorly preserved circular enclosure (D 30m) defined by a bank and traces of a wide shallow external fosse. The interior is wet and covered with reeds. 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

• GA060-179 Moated site
  Description

  On a slight rise in pastureland, a stream lies to E. A well-preserved rectangular moated site (NW-SE 28.3m, NE-SW 25.7m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 7.5m) at SW. A field wall cuts the monument at NE. 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

Architectural heritage

• Pallas, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey U-plan house, built c.1810, now derelict, having single-storey monopitch extension to rear. Hipped natural slate roof with pair of rendered chimneystacks to ridge, exposed rafter ends, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with projecting render plinth. Square-headed window openings with remains of two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, with tooled limestone sills. Segmental-headed recessed entrance, having timber door with panelled sidelights, and fanlight. Set in open field with timber post and wire fence enclosure.

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 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.

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.

No address of the register names Pallas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Pallas · An Phailís

Area

2,544,648 m² (254.46 ha, 628.8 acres)

Civil parish

Fohanagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Annagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

383 people lived in 136 households in the Annagh electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintleva, Clonbrock Demesne, Cloonpee, Fohanagh, Garrafine (Trench), Garrafine (Ussher)

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.