Land parcel 5013356

Area

1,544 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 6,504 m².

Zoning

M2 City Centre (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 22 Aug 2025Conditional

  Permission for development which consists of: the demolition of an existing 2 storey office building and a small link bridge connection to the upper floor of the adjoining Irishrail building, which is located at the eastern end of existing platform 1 and 2 in Ceannt Railway Station, Station Road, Galway.

  Permission · Galway City Council, 2528

• 26 Mar 2025Unconditional

  Permission for development which consists of, (1) Amendments to the ground floor layout including reconfiguration of the bathrooms and creation of a fire escape corridor, (2) Alterations to the existing fenestration and conversion of a window into a doorway at ground floor level on the south-western elevations, (3) Alterations to the layout at fourth floor level including the insertion of alternative fire escape corridor, (4) Change of use at 5th floor from an existing leisure centre to 13 no. bedrooms (5) The construction of an additional 6th floor containing 6 no. bedrooms, fire escape corridor, and plant areas and; (6) all other associated site development and servicing works

  Extension of duration · Galway City Council, 2510

• 16 Aug 2024N/a

  Permission for development which consists of; Iarnrod Eireann are seeking permission for changes to an already approved application ref. no. 14/18 at Ceannt Railway Station Galway. The proposed changes are to increase the size if the new public toilet facilities. Ceannt Railway Station is a protected structure (RPS 10001).

  Permission · Galway City Council, 2445

• 13 Apr 2022Conditional

  Permission for development which will consist of changes to previously approved planning permission ref no. 14/18 (extended under 19/175). Ceannt Railway Station is a protected structure (RPS 10001). The changes include: 1. Partial removal of three no. internal walls in the northern buildings to increase visibility and thus assist with both passenger flow and wayfinding and accessibility. 2. The partial removal of some of the existing concrete floor on the eastern side of the station building and the subsequent lowering of same by approx. 180 mm to be at the same level throughout and thus assist with passenger accessibility

  Permission, 1 home · Galway City Council, 2287

• 15 Nov 2019Conditional

  Planning permission for the development which will consists of the subdivision of room 215 at first floor level and room 415 at fourth floor level into 2 no. separate rooms including reconfiguration of the bathrooms (Protected Structure RPS Ref 3801)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway City Council, 19323

• 30 Jul 2019Conditional

  Planning permission for the development will consist of( Protected Structure RPS Ref 3801) (1) Amendments to the ground floor layout including reconfiguration of the bathrooms and creation of a fire escape corridor, (2) Alterations to the existing fenestration and conversion of a window into a doorway at ground floor level on the south-western elevations, (3) Alterations to the layout at fourth floor level including the insertion of alternative fire escape corridor, (4) Change of use at 5th floor from an existing leisure centre to 13 no. bedrooms. (5) The construction of an additional 6th floor containing 6 no. bedrooms, fire escape corridor, and plant areas and; (6) All other associated site development and servicing works

  Permission · Galway City Council, 19221

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

Designated sites

The National Parks and Wildlife Service did not answer.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 64 recorded monuments.

• GA094-091 Religious house - Dominican friars
  Description

  In 1488 the Dominicans were granted licence to build a friary (GA094-091----) on the site of the Chapel of St Mary on the Hill (GA094-091002-). Exact foundation date unclear (pers. comm. P. Walsh) but construction of a choir and windows is mentioned in 1493 and work was still in progress in 1508. The scale or layout of the buildings is unknown. Described as 'lately dissolved' in 1570 but was subsequently re-established. Converted into an artillery battery (GA094-091003-) in 1642 and razed in 1652 to prevent Cromwellian occupation (Cooke 1895, 295). The present Dominican church, on or close to the site, dates from 1891. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 225; Hardiman 1820, 270-1) 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

• GA094-091001 Graveyard
  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.

• GA094-091002 Chapel
  Description

  On W bank of the River Corrib opposite the town of Galway (GA094-100----) in the area known as the Claddagh. This was a Premonstratensian cell, in existence in 1235, and probably a dependant of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity, Tuam, which was founded in the first decade of the 13th C (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 206). Known as 'The Chapel of St Mary on the Hill' but reputed to have begun its life as a hospital (GA094-091004-). In 1451 it 'was merely a chapel' and by 1488 it 'had been empty and disused for a long time' (ibid., 204, 255). No visible trace survives. Site subsequently occupied by a Dominican friary (GA094-091----). 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

• GA094-092 Settlement cluster
  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.

• GA094-099001 Graveyard
  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.

• GA094-099002 Bastioned fort
  Description

  On summit at SW end of a steep-sided ridge overlooking Galway town to WNW and the approaches to its harbour and Loch an tSáile to S. Built in 1601-3 on the site of Augustinian friary (GA094-099003-), the church of which was incorporated into its plan. No visible surface trace survives of St Augustine's Fort, as it was known, but early 17th-C plans and various accounts of it exist (Hardiman 1846, 96-8, 108-22). These indicate that it was a massive earth and stone-faced construction (H c. 6m), square in plan (L/Wth c. 60m), with salient angle-bastions at each corner. It was encircled by a fosse, the entrance with gatehouse and drawbridge being situated midway along E side. Completely demolished in 1643: its former existence is preserved in the name of an adjacent graveyard (see GA094-099001-). (Walsh 1981, 64-76, 79-85; Kerrigan 1980, 137) 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

• GA094-099003 Religious house - Augustinian friars
  Description

  On a ridge to ESE of Galway town (GA094-100----) on or close to Forthill Graveyard. Augustinian friary founded 1508-9 by Margaret Athy. Known as 'the monastery of Cnoc'. Neither the scale or layout of the buildings is clear but representations appear on several 16-17th-C maps of the town. Described as 'late dissolved' in 1578. In 1601-3 a bastioned fort (GA094-099002-) was erected on the site. (Hardiman 1820, 272-3; Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 300; Walsh 1986) 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

• GA094-100 Historic town
  Description

  On E bank of the River Corrib at its outflow into Galway Bay. Its foundation dates from the 1230s when Richard de Burgh erected a castle on the site of the O'Flaherty stronghold of Bun Gaillimhe (Lynn 1986, 101). The construction of its defences dates from the 1270s and it was confirmed as a royal borough in 1396. The walled town covered an area of c. 60 hectares but an extra mural suburb also existed at the Claddagh, on W bank of the river (see GA094-091002-). Three friaries (GA094-091----, GA094-099003-, GA094-102----), a hospital, a (nunnery and an infirmary (GA094-105----, GA094-106----, GA094-113----) also stood outside the walls. The visible remains comprise substantial portions of the town walls, the collegiate church of St Nicholas, and the remains of c. 20 late medieval houses (Higgins 1984-6). In the 17th century a series of artillery fortifications (GA094-032----, GA094-057----, GA082-083----, GA094-099002-, GA094-112----, GA094-022----) were erected around the town. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 284-8; Hardiman 1820; Casey 1988b) 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

• GA094-100001 Town defences
  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.

• GA094-100031 Bridge
  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.

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Architectural heritage

• Ceannt Railway Station, railway station, 1850–1855 · National interest
  Description

  Attached twenty-two-bay single-storey over basement railway station, built 1851, having ashlar limestone walls to front and sides. Symmetrical front façade comprises three-bay deeply recessed entrance flanked to each side by two-bay advanced section, four-bay recessed section, two-bay advanced section and three-bay recessed section. Lower double-height two-bay block recessed to east end of façade and having single-bay single-storey lean-to structure recessed to latter block. Recent double-pile train shed. Five-bay single-storey former engine shed attached to south-west elevation with recent single-storey extension to north-west elevation, now in use as bus garage. Pitched roof and rainwater goods concealed behind high parapet to front façade of station having pilasters with plat band and moulded cornice. Rendered chimneystack. Flat roof behind snecked limestone parapet to two-bay block with lean-to slate roof with parapet to single-storey block. Corrugated-steel sheet roof to train shed. Pitched corrugated-steel roof to former engine shed having segmental-shaped pediment to gable with cut-stone coping stones. Ashlar walls to station house with tooled plinth and plat-band and having plat-band to eaves with moulded cornice having modillions. Pilasters to ends of elevation. Snecked limestone to basement level. Curved bay window to basement and ground floor levels of north-east elevation. Canopy to entrance bays comprises fluted cast-iron brackets on carved stone corbels supporting stonework having carved architrave, plain frieze and moulded cornice with fluted course, and having pilasters atop brackets and passing through fluted course. Snecked squared stone walls to two-bay and one-bay blocks with tooled quoins. Snecked rubble limestone walls to platform canopy and former engine shed having tooled pilasters with architrave, plain frieze and moulded cornice, chamfered coping stones to pilasters and tooled copings over cornice. Pilaster to north-west has panelling and high relief ornament. Square-headed window openings throughout station, set into square-headed recesses, having tooled sills and replacement uPVC windows. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash and replacement uPVC recessed windows to basement level with block-and-start surrounds. Four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to curved bay window. Ashlar surrounds to two-bay block with replacement bipartite uPVC windows. Recent square-headed window openings to south-west elevation of platform canopy wall having raised render reveals, render sills and aluminium windows. Entrance area has square-headed openings, middle one being blind, set into square-headed recesses and having moulded surrounds, with double-leaf timber glazed doors with overlights and having moulded stone steps, flanked by decorative cast-iron railings on tooled limestone plinths. Recent square-headed door opening to south-east elevation of former engine shed within infilled round-headed arch with tooled block-and-start surround, voussoirs and vermiculated keystone, and battened timber door with multi-pane overlight. Attached to front of east end of front façade of station is five-bay single-storey block, built c. 1860 comprising lower three-bay part to east with catslide porch to west end, and two-bay part to west. Pitched artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, replacement aluminium rainwater goods, and timber bargeboards to gables. Snecked rusticated limestone walls with ashlar limestone quoins. West part has square-headed window openings, former window to east gable now converted to doorway and it and doorway and triple-light window to front elevation all having tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds and chamfered lintels and jambs, front window also having chamfered mullions and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Replacement timber door. West gable has pair of windows with rusticated surrounds and replacement uPVC windows, oculus to upper gable with red-brick surround, and recently inserted doorway. Front elevation of east part has two camber-arch former carriage arches converted to windows, with rusticated limestone block-and-start surrounds, tooled limestone sills and replacement timber windows, and recently inserted window.

• Ceannt Railway Station, unknown, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  L-plan retaining wall opposite Ceannt Station, erected c. 1860, comprising coursed roughly dressed snecked limestone, with rounded tooled limestone coping.

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

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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