Grange

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange, from 17 m² to 391,398 m² (39.14 ha, 96.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Grange 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.

• 21 May 2021Conditional

  for the construction of Dwelling House, Domestic garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 270.9 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21873

• 18 Dec 2020Refused

  for the construction of a Dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 270.9 msq

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201974

• 25 May 2017Conditional

  to install a septic tank and percolation area and decommission the old septic tank.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17752

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Rea SAC 000304
• Special Protection Area: Lough Rea SPA 004134
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Rea 000304

Recorded monuments

• GA105-109 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In flat pastureland, c. 400m to the S of Lough Rea. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m); on the 1929 resurvey it is indicated by a line of hachures from SSW through W to N and is more subrectangular in plan. No visible surface trace survives. The cartographic evidence and name suggest it was a ringfort, possibly a cashel. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 March 2019

• GA105-111 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 35m) defined by a bank with traces of internal stone-facing at NE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2018

• GA105-112 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland. Marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a possible enclosure (c. 15m N-S; c. 10m E-W), roughly oval in shap. No visible surface trace survives. Cashels (GA105-109---- and GA 105-113----) lie c. 175m to the NE and c. 135m to the S respectively. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 March 2019

• GA105-113 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 35m NE-SW; c. 32m NW-SE). No visible surface trace survives. The cartographic evidence and name suggest that it was a ringfort, possibly a cashel. Another possible cashel was located c. 310m to the NNE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 March 2019

• GA105-114 Kiln - lime
  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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grange.

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 Grange, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_992 (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 Grange with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Grange · An Ghráinseach

Area

891,626 m² (89.16 ha, 220.33 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenadeema, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Mountain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

299 people lived in 106 households in the Mountain electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Earlspark, Glenaclara East, Grangepark, Killeenadeema East, Killeenadeema West

Placenames

Grange 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.