Galros

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Galros, from 24 m² to 245,444 m² (24.54 ha, 60.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 9 Nov 2021N/a

  EXISTING FARM OUTBUILDING. PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ALTERATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS WHICH ARE WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE NO: 30-008, ALSO PERMISSION FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21697

• 15 Oct 2021N/a

  EXISTING FARM OUTBUILDING. PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ALTERATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDING WHICH ARE WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE NIAH REF: 14811009, ALSO PERMISSION FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21644

• 1 Feb 2021Conditional

  NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2133

• 12 Dec 2017Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND PROPOSED BORED WELL

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17489

• 4 Oct 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND PROPOSED BORED WELL

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17381

• 4 Oct 2017N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND PROPOSED BORED WELL

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17380

• 28 Sept 2017N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND PROPOSED BORED WELL

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17371

• 28 Sept 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND PROPOSED BORED WELL

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17373

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 Galros.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Galros.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c.1800. Pitched oaten straw roof with decorative knotting and exposed scolloping to ridge and twine to eaves. Low rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed stone walls. Replacement uPVC windows. Timber battened door and half door. Single-bay extension to rear with concrete walls and pitched tiled roof. Yard to front and stone-walled and concrete outbuildings with pitched and lean-to roofs to sides and rear.

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 Galros, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1644 (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 Galros with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Galros · Gallros

Area

2,739,151 m² (273.92 ha, 676.86 acres)

Civil parish

Gallen, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Cloghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,044 people lived in 375 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attinkee, Ballyloughan, Ballyshane, Cloghan, Clonony More, Cush, Tonlemone

Placenames

Galros 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.