Gardenblake Commons

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gardenblake Commons, from 99 m² to 189,897 m² (18.99 ha, 46.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Commons 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.

• 22 May 2026Conditional

  for renovations, alterations and a rear extension to an existing dilapidated cottage and all associated site works including the provision of a new wastewater treatment plant and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660812

• 28 Mar 2019Conditional

  to construct a private dwelling house, and sewerage treatment system with all other site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 241 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19442

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gardenblake Commons.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Commons, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Gardenblake Commons · Coimín Gharraí Bhláicín

Area

2,223,935 m² (222.39 ha, 549.55 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

Ballyeighter, Clooneen, Cournageeha, Doonally East, Doonally West, Drumminalough, Gardenblake, Knockroe, Lisbrine

Placenames

Gardenblake Commons 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.