Land parcel 4701453

Area

5 m²

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

R3 Residential (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• GA094-097 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Three wells are represented as antiquities and are named ‘St Augustine’s Wells’ on both the OS Fair Plan and 1st ed. 6-inch map, on the roadside at the High Water Mark on W side of Loch an tSáile on outskirts of Galway city. Two of these wells (GA094-096---- and GA094-098----) are indicated as being side by side at the NE and the third is located c. 90m to the SW (GA094-097----). The sources do not entirely agree on the nomenclature of these wells. Fr McErlean (1904-5, 146) records that only the SW well was dedicated to ‘St Augustine’s Well’ whereas the two N wells were dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and St John the Baptist (1904, 52). This statement would appear to be supported by the fact that only one well, that at the SW (GA094-097----), is indicated on the map of this area among the Erasmus Smith papers surveyed by Thomas Sherrard in 1785 (SMR file). In addition, only one St Augustine’s well is referenced in the index to the mid-seventeenth century Pictorial Map of Galway (NUI Galway, Hardiman Library; Synopsis, in orientem, 3, (St. Augustine’s well, on the southern side of the hill) S. Augustini fons in australi latere montis). However, Logan’s map of Galway, dated 1818, shows three wells side by side and these are named as St Augustine’s Wells (Hardiman 1820, facing p. 279). Only two of the three wells indicated on the OS 1st ed. 6-inch sheet were named on the OS 1:2500 survey plan of 1893-5, one to the NE and one to the SW. The published plan does not display a symbol to indicate the precise location of the NE well but it is assumed that it was located immediately W of the name. The NE well is recorded as ‘Site of’ on the 1944 revision of this plan. No visible trace survives of the NE wells (GA094-096---- and GA094-098----). The surviving SW well, St Augustine's Well, (GA094-097----) is tidal and was restored by the Galway Civic Trust in 2000. It consists of a concrete hexagonal trough surrounded by a low dry-stone enclosing wall. Hardiman (1846, 88-9) records details of an 'Extraordinary Cure at St. Augustine's Well' which occurred here in 1673. (Hardiman 1846, 88-9; OS Letters, Vol. 1, 403; Gosling 1993, no. 767) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 1 March 2016

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_475 (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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.