Sheepwalk

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheepwalk, from 918 m² to 102,018 m² (10.2 ha, 25.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Sheepwalk 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.

• 25 Feb 2022Conditional

  of a dwelling house on revised site boundaries, previous planning reference 18/402 refers to the original permission. Permission is also being sought for the construction of a revised domestic garage in a revised location. Gross floor space of proposed works: 49.2 sqm (garage). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 225.8 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22254

• 1 Dec 2021Conditional

  to erect a dwelling house, garage and effluent treatment unit coupled with ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 171.26 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212259

• 21 Jun 2021Refused

  to erect a dwelling house, garage and effluent treatment unit coupled with ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 172.26 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211096

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  and completion of variations to a dwelling house under construction and for all other ancillary works. Pervious planning references 18/402 refers to the original permission. Gross floor space of proposed works: 225.8 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 225.8 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181877

• 4 Apr 2018Conditional

  for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and a proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works 172.6 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18402

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 Sheepwalk.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-169 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in grassland. Subcircular rath (N-S 29.7m, E-W 27.6m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the inner bank survives from S through W to N, or of the outer bank from SW to W. A field wall overlies outer bank from NE to SW. There is an entrance causeway at N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-170 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 28.8m, E-W 23.8m) defined by a degraded bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-171 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused quarry that is defined by a hollow. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 3 July 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Sheepwalk, 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

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

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

Name

Sheepwalk · Ré na gCaorach

Area

584,966 m² (58.5 ha, 144.55 acres)

Civil parish

Clontuskert, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Clontuskert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

218 people lived in 90 households in the Clontuskert electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Atticoffey West, Bogpark, Carrowmore East, Gortnamona, Loughturk East, Newtownkelly, Somerset

Placenames

Sheepwalk 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.