Land parcel 4884789

Area

9,653 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

G5 Agriculture and High Amenity (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

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• GA082-064 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On E bank of River Corrib close to a probable crossing point (GA082-089----). In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Thomas Colman' (Nolan 1901, 115). The exact location of the original castle, probably a tower house, is unclear: Athy (1914, 155-60) at first thought that it may have stood within the walled and battlemented square enclosure, 40m to E of the present ruined house. However, in a footnote, she also noted that 'the N wall [of the ruined house] and adjacent parts of the E and W walls, are 2ft [0.6m] thicker than the rest'. These walls form part of a rectangular 17th-C gabled house (GA082-064001-). As Athy indicated, the NNE wall (L c. 8m) and adjoining part of WNW wall (L c. 11.4m) are of much stouter construction (Wth c. 2.2m) than the rest (average Wth 1-1.7m). The NNE wall also contains a narrow single-light window with round head. These walls may well have been part of the original castle, later incorporated into the 17th-C house. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA082-064001 House - 17th century
  Description

  On E bank of River Corrib 0.6km S of Menlough village. Only the shell of this once fine 17-19th-C house survives, it having been gutted by fire in 1919. The original house was a long, rectangular 17th-C gabled house (L 22.6m, Wth c. 9.2m) of two storeys over a basement. The ESE façade, of six bays, had battered walls, a centrally placed doorway, a gabled parapet with bartizans at each corner, and a tall chimney on each end-wall, only one of which survives. Subsequently extended to W, and much altered, in 18-19th C. Parts of the walls at N end of the house may have been incorporated from an earlier castle on the site (GA082-064----). (Bence-Jones 1978; Athy 1914, 155-60) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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 rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_453 (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.