Glentaun

97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glentaun, from 11 m² to 49,802 m² (4.98 ha, 12.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

• R2Residential (Existing) (Existing residential)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 81 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Business and Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space / Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential Infill (New/proposed residential)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 16 Oct 2025Conditional

  for conversion of attached domestic garage to a habitable room for use as part of the house

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561538

• 4 Feb 2025Conditional

  for a dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment plant, percolation area and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 208.00 sqm(house), 30.00 sqm(garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560104

• 6 Apr 2023Refused

  for new dwellinghouse (200m²), domestic garage (30m²), on-site wastewater treatment system & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360349

• 14 Oct 2021Refused

  to erect 13 dwelling houses together with all ancillary site works and services to facilitate the housing development. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1344.2 sqm

  Permission, 13 homes · Galway County Council, 211907

• 14 Sept 2020Refused

  for conversion of former detached storage facilities to creche/childcare facilities at the Village Creche/ Preschool, 3 Glentaun View, Glentaun Village, Creagh, Ballinasloe. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 33.52 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 201308

• 23 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct one pair of two-storey semi-detached dwelling houses to replace the approved two storey dwelling house (Planning Reference No. 19/231) and complete all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 297 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191646

• 13 Sept 2019Conditional

  retention permission for revisions to site layout details to include for minor revisions to house location and to site boundary details for two dwelling houses erected under PD/99/1311 at

  Retention, 2 homes · Roscommon County Council, 19471

• 20 Feb 2019Conditional

  to construct a two-storey dwelling house and complete all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 277sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19231

• 13 Sept 2018N/a

  to construct a new two storey detached dwelling house, detached garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works - house, 305.04sqm and garage, 72sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181298

• 4 Aug 2017Conditional

  for retention for dwelling house and associated services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 290sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171184

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 Glentaun.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glentaun.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Glentaun, 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 made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1378 (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 Glentaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Glentaun · An Gleanntán

Area

273,870 m² (27.39 ha, 67.67 acres)

Civil parish

Creagh, and its townlands

Barony

Moycarn

Electoral division

Ballinasloe Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

7,361 people lived in 2,616 households in the Ballinasloe Urban electoral division. 55% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creagh, Glentaun (Co. Roscommon), Kilgarve, Parkmore, Parkmore (Co. Roscommon)

Placenames

Glentaun 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.