Blackrock

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackrock, from 1,398 m² to 200,040 m² (20 ha, 49.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Blackrock 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.

• 20 Jul 2026Conditional

  of alterations to existing dwelling house previously permitted under planning Ref 07/4696

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2661225

• 12 Apr 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a front porch, side, rear and first floor extension to an existing dwelling including elevation alterations. Permission is also sought for the conversion & integration of the existing attached garage into the proposed development & dwelling along with all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 122 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260337

• 8 Dec 2020Conditional

  to retain 1] revised dwelling house on revised site boundaries to that previously granted under Planning Reference 11/898. 2] A domestic storage shed and 3] To upgrade existing waste water treatment system. Gross floor of woks to be retained: 105.12 msq & 27.61 msq.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201863

• 12 Nov 2020Conditional

  for the retention and completion of a domestic garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 54.2 msq

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201701

• 31 Oct 2019Conditional

  of a dwelling house, treatment unit and all associated services on revised site boundaries previously granted under 01/3937. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 137.2 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191706

• 20 Sept 2018Conditional

  for the retention of a dwelling house, septic tank and all associated services on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained, 120.8sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181332

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Peterswell Turlough SAC 000318
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Peterswell Turlough 000318

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blackrock.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Blackrock, about 1 in 5 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_873 (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.

• Blackrock, Peterswell7 sales

Name

Blackrock · An Charraig Dhubh

Area

509,440 m² (50.94 ha, 125.89 acres)

Civil parish

Kilthomas, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Castleboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

571 people lived in 204 households in the Castleboy electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cuilmore, Gortaloman, Lecknabegga, Limepark South, Lissadoill, Turloughnacloghdoo Commons

Placenames

Blackrock 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.