Gloves Middle

113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gloves Middle, from 10 m² to 164,482 m² (16.45 ha, 40.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Gloves Middle 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.

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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 Gloves Middle.

Recorded monuments

• GA084-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (c. 50m NNW-SSE) defined by a bank and external fosse from SE through W to NW. The bank is overgrown with thorn bushes. A children's burial ground (GA084-076001-) is associated. (Cody 1989, 200-2, no. 50) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 January 2018

• GA084-076001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within the W sector of a rath (GA084-076----). This children's burial ground is defined by a densely overgrown roughly square area (c. 2m N-S; c. 2m E-W) within which a number of small set stones indicate graves. (Cody 1989, 200-2, no. 50) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 January 2018

• GA084-077 Cist
  Description

  A rectangular slab-built cist (L 0.5m; Wth 0.4m), aligned N-S, was discovered in 1934 when sand was being removed from a sand pit. It contained the cremated bones of an adult, many fragments of pottery, a flint knife and two or three flint scrapers (Waddell 1975, 16; 1990, 93). The cist and its contents were subsequently transferred to the college museum in University College Galway. However, their present location is unknown. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gloves Middle, about 1 in 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gloves Middle.

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

Name

Gloves Middle · Na Glaimhe Láir

Area

2,376,812 m² (237.68 ha, 587.32 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Athenry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,765 people lived in 2,069 households in the Athenry electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboggan, Blean, Carnakelly North, Carnakelly South, Cloonbrusk, Gloves East, Gloves South, Gloves West, Graigabbey South, Kilcornan, Killascaul

Placenames

Gloves Middle 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.