Rathglass

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathglass, from 83 m² to 411,712 m² (41.17 ha, 101.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 52 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 Rathglass 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.

• 16 Feb 2024Conditional

  to create a new field entrance from the public road. Gross floor space of proposed works: 35sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2457

• 22 Dec 2023Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 213.45 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361571

• 22 Dec 2023Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 203.21 sqm (house) & 22.72 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361577

• 3 Oct 2023Conditional

  for existing two storey dwelling, detached outbuilding & existing septic tank system. Permission for demolition of existing front door porch, rear kitchen porch & substandard central chimney, minor alterations & renovation to existing dwelling floor plan to reconfigure layout & alterations to existing east, south, west & north elevations to suit. Full planning permission for single storey extensions to the south, west & north elevations of the domestic dwelling to house new family living quarters including change of use alterations to existing outbuilding to provide connecting utility rooms & domestic garage to include all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361184

• 21 Oct 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic shed, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 216 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211950

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 195.28 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211803

• 26 May 2021Conditional

  for proposed domestic dwelling, domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 379.31 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21897

• 6 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 174.35 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21746

• 14 Feb 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and a garage with treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 225.3 sqm (house) and 49.5 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20188

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 Rathglass.

Recorded monuments

• GA086-214 Enclosure
  Description

  In level grassland within the former Rathglass Demesne. Rectangular overgrown enclosure (N-S 38.8m, E-W 35.5m), in fair condition, defined by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The latter survives only on S side and the fosse on E, S and W sides. Numerous small modern breaches occur, and a field fence surrounds E, S and W sides. There is a stony depression in N section of the interior. 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

• GA086-215 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA086-216 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland, formerly demesne land. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a tree clump. What survives is an overgrown roughly circular enclosure (D 25m), in fair condition, defined by a wide bank from SSW to WSW, and from NW to NNE; elsewhere a scarp (H 1.5m max.) forms the enclosing element. There is a gap (Wth 5.3m) at W. Beech trees grow along the perimeter. An enclosure (GA098-131----) lies 50m to SSW. Possibly a landscaped ringfort or a tree-ring. 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

• GA098-131 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge in former demesne land. An oval earthen enclosure (NNE-SSW 37.2, WNW-ESE 29.5), in fair condition, defined by a scarp (H 1.95m max.), except from SE to S where a small section of a bank survives. From NNW through N to NE, quarrying has destroyed the enclosing element. Trees growing around the enclosure may indicate that it was reused as a tree-ring enclosure in the 19th C. According to local information, the monument is known as 'the fort'. An earthwork (GA086-216----) lies 50m to NNE. 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

• GA098-132 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Rathglass House, country house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having later flat-roofed porch to front (south) elevation. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with deep rendered chimneystacks and ceramic chimneypots. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor, three-over-six to first floor and two-over-two to porch. Square-headed door opening to east side of porch, having timber door. Site entrance to east with square-profile rendered piers, recent gate, and rendered quadrant walls.

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 Rathglass, 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 Rathglass.

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.

• Rathglass, New Inn7 sales

Name

Rathglass · An Ráth Glas

Area

2,032,985 m² (203.3 ha, 502.36 acres)

Civil parish

Killaan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

805 people lived in 256 households in the Grange electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinphuill, Boleymore, Brackloon, Carra, Corrabaun, Glennaskehy, Highpark, Owenavaddy or Riverstic, Slievedotia, Treanbaun

Placenames

Rathglass 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.