Gardenblake

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gardenblake, from 57 m² to 183,536 m² (18.35 ha, 45.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Gardenblake 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.

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  to demolish existing derelict dwelling house and construct a new dwelling house and new wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 284.10 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 110.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460939

• 1 Jul 2022Refused

  to construct a single-family dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and ancillary site facilities.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22843

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 Gardenblake.

Recorded monuments

• GA114-075 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.

• GA123-046001 Church
  Description

  Within the S half of a graveyard (GA123-046002-), which is roughly centrally located within a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA123-046003-). Described in the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 622-4) as a much-ruined church (c. 22.8m E-W; c. 7.6m N-S). The E and W gables were entirely demolished and only sections of the N (L 17.6m) and S (L 10m) side-walls survived, each with a single-light round-headed window towards its E end. Traces of a pointed arch were also evident near the W end of the N side-wall. All that now survives is a featureless section of the latter wall (L 3.3m; H 2.1m; T 0.95m); it consists of a double-faced randomly coursed mortared wall. (Fahey 1893, 257, 433) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 February 2020

• GA123-046002 Graveyard
  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.

• GA123-046003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  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.

• GA123-047 Mill - corn
  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

• Saint Thomas's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan Roman Catholic church, dated 1840. Comprising two-bay nave with single-bay double-height transepts, square-profile three-stage bell tower erected 1947 to north-east elevation, and sacristy with later extensions to south-east. Pitched slate roof having limestone celtic-cross finials, render eaves course, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Pyramidal copper roof to tower with cast-iron cross finial. Wet dash rendered walls having render eaves course and inscribed limestone date plaques. Smooth rendered walls to tower. Pointed arch door opening to south-east side of tower with chamfered rendered surround, double-leaf timber battened door and overlight. Segmental-headed door opening to north-east elevation of sacristy having chamfered render surround, timber battened door and overlight. Segmental-headed window openings to north-east side of sacristy with chamfered rendered surrounds, sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Double-light window to north-west gable having painted limestone block-and-start surround and sill and leaded stained glass. Pointed arch triple-light windows to transepts with leaded stained glass quatrefoil lights above, painted limestone tracery, sills, hood-mouldings and block-and-start surrounds. Pointed arch window openings to nave having painted limestone sills, block-and-start surrounds and leaded stained glass. Pointed arch window openings to first stage of tower with render surrounds, sills and stained glass. Pointed arch niche to north-east side of tower, second stage, having render surround, plinth and carved statue. Pointed arch openings to top stage of tower with render surrounds, Y-tracery and timber louvered vents. Early twentieth century marble altar. Timber gallery with rail comprising arcade of trefoil-headed openings, supported on round-plan cast-iron columns, staircase encased in battened timber panelling. Tooled limestone holy water stoup by doorway. Timber battened panelling to ceiling, supported by arch-braced king-post timber truss roof supported on corbels. Sculpted marble surrounds to Stations of the Cross. Rubble limestone Marian grotto to north-west of church. Pair of square-plan rusticated limestone piers having rusticated limestone caps, flanking double-leaf wrought-iron gate to north-east boundary wall of church.

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 Gardenblake, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_873 (ZIP).

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

Name

Gardenblake · Garraí Bhláicín

Area

1,223,318 m² (122.33 ha, 302.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kilthomas, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Ballycahalan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

213 people lived in 82 households in the Ballycahalan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycahalan, Ballylee, Ballynabucky, Cappard Demesne, Cuilmore, Doonally West, Farnaun, Gardenblake Commons, Knockroe, Lissadoill

Placenames

Gardenblake 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.